This technical shoot will be about learning a Photoshop technique which allows photographs to look old and tattered. The reason for this experiment is so I can expand my Photoshop knowledge and learn something I have never done before on the programme. Using the aging effect on a Photoshop programme can be very effective when wanting to create the illusion that an image is older than it actually is. Here is an example below:
The equipment I will need is the Photoshop programme and a few photographs that I would like to experiment with. I will research online the way do this effect on Photoshop as I have never done it before.
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There are a number of different techniques you can do to give a photograph an aged effect and I have experimented with a few of them. The reason someone may do this to a photograph is because a person may want to give a new image a different look and to make it look antique. The first way I did this experiment is by using sepia tones, noise and scratches. The image blow is the original.
First of all, I added a sepia tone. To this this I selected 'Hue/Saturation'.
Then I selected the 'Colourise' box and dragged the 'Hue' and 'Saturation' votes both to around 20. I then dragged the 'Lightness' to +2.
After, I added noise. To do this I selected the 'Filter' tool and Then selected 'Add Noise'. I made this setting to around 20% and selected the 'Gaussian' box.
Next, I added scratches. To this you have to add a new layer of a black background. Whilst on that layer, you select 'Filter', then 'Texture', then 'Grain' and ensure the 'Intensity' and 'Contrast' is around +50.Then on the drop down box, make the grain vertical.
Finally, you have to make the photograph viewable. To do this, you have to change the black layer to 'Screen'.
The image below is my the final outcome.
I also experimented with a different way on making a photograph look older than it is. Below is the original image.
First of all I adjusted the 'Filter' by selecting 'Blur and then 'Surface Blur'.
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