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Give Your Photo an Antique Look

November 7, 2006 by Matt Kloskowski Tutorials, Videos 18 Comments

Matt Kloskowski, Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, shows you how to give your photos an antique look.

Posted by Matt Kloskowski

Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has authored and co-authored five books on Photoshop and Illustrator and teaches an advanced Photoshop course for Sessions.edu. In addition to being an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop and a Macromedia Flash Certified Developer, Matt is a regular contributor to Photoshop User and Layers magazines and writes weekly columns for several digital imaging websites.

18 comments on “Give Your Photo an Antique Look”

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  12. If you like the crackling effect, I tried a few different things that I think really made it look more natural.

    First, I created my new layers as a duplicate of the background -that way you can add effects knowing how they’ll affect the original picture better.

    Second, I selected different areas and used different crystal sizes to make the crystalization look more random/natural. I used a 50 pixel feather between the areas so they would run together more smoothly.

    If you did this using a duplicate copy of the background, you now need to desaturate your edges to get the right effect.

    Then after finding the edges, I picked out parts of the picture that I did not want as crackled as others. I selected those areas and decreased the contrast while increasing the brightness to fade the cracks into the background.

    Lastly, I used an embossing filter on the whole thing to give it a real cracked look. I used a dept of only about 3 pixels.

    If you use a low opacity, you can use multiple layers like these to get an even more natural effect.

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