Creating Your Own Vintage, Retro, and Aged Photography Effects
It’s no surprise that “vintage” style photos are becoming more popular everyday, especially with the advent of smartphone apps equipped with myriads of retro camera effects, filters, and settings. Phone cameras are convenient and vintage photo apps are a breeze, enabling the most novice of photographers and photo editors to create awesome looking pictures.
But what if you want to apply these styles to pre-existing pictures, or you prefer using a different camera, or you don’t want to compromise the quality of size and resolution? There are a variety of resources out there for you to transform regular photographs into stunning styles of your choice. Today we’ll show you a handful of basic Photoshop tutorials that show you easy methods for achieving these popular effects. In future posts, we will cover more information about the techniques and equipment that most of these styles are based off of.
Basic Vintage or Aged Photoshop Tutorials:
These tutorials are great starting points for basic vintage and retro Photoshop effects.
Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop, Emanuele Feronato at emanueleferonato.com
This ten step tutorial covers how tweaking a couple of Photoshop filters and layer modes can result in a neat saturated retro look.
Vintage Photo Effect, by Denny Tang at photoshoptutorials.wsThis tutorial only has five easy steps. It is a great brief guide for quickly applying vintage looks to regular photographs in Photoshop. The effect from this tutorial produces a warm, light haze.
Turn A New Photo Into An Old Photo In Photoshop, by Steve Patterson at photoshopessentials.com
This tutorial is a little bit more lengthy, but not overwhelming. It covers several high quality steps in Photoshop that result in your modern photograph looking like a weathered aged photograph.
Split Toning Photoshop Tutorials:
These tutorials cover a couple of Photoshop methods to achieve a split toning effect. Split toning is often described as being similar to “black and white” but with a mix of muted warm and cool tones in your photograph.
Breathtaking Split Toning Effect at tutorialpulse.com
This tutorial only takes five steps, and effectively applies a split tone appearance in Photoshop to your normal picture.
Cross Process Photoshop Tutorials:
These tutorials cover Photoshop techniques for cross process effects. Cross processing is when photographs are intentionally developed with the incorrect chemicals, creating a really unique style.
Digital Cross Processing in Photoshop, at photographymad.com
This easy cross processing tutorial creates some unique color changes to your pictures.
Curvy Cross Processing in Photoshop CS3 at layersmagazine.com
This tutorial shows interesting Photoshop techniques, specifically with curves, on an easy way to achieve that cross processed look digitally.
Lomo/Lomography Photoshop Tutorials:
These tutorials cover Photoshop techniques for Lomo or Lomography effects. LOMO actually refers to a specific brand, and the styles that have become associated with it are generally that of cross processing and other techniques.
Lomo-Effect on Photographs in Photoshop at scottphotographics.com
Here is a quick three step Photoshop tutorial to create a Lomo effect. It also includes a handy Photoshop action at the end.
How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography, by Darren Rowse at digital-photography-school.com
This is a great in-depth Photoshop tutorial for applying Lomo styles to your average picture.
Holga Photoshop Tutorials:
These tutorials cover Photoshop techniques for “Holga” effects. Holga is a toy camera that produces cool funky effects.
How to create Holga images in Photoshop at ephotozine.com
This Holga effect Photoshop tutorial explains more about Holga styles and gives instruction on how to digitally achieve it on your own.
Holga Medium Format Effect by Kelly Anne Wills at photoshopgirl.com
This Holga tutorial is more interactive, with a cool video to guide you on how to achieve this effect.
That wraps up our introduction to Photoshop vintage and retro effect tutorials. Stay tuned for more photo editing articles, and expansion on some of the topics mentioned here. For those that would rather not go through all these steps on their own in Photoshop, we suggest taking a look at our line of impressive Nik products, which are perfect for applying a variety of amazing high quality filters to your photographs in Photoshop.
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WOW just what I was looking for. Came here by searching for vintage photoshop tutorials
Awesome! Glad you found what you were looking for!