Old Style Photo Effect

Now I’m going to show you how to create old style photo effect with interesting accent.

At first you need to find some appropriate picture for our tutorial. Actualy you can find picters in Google searh or feel free to use mine. Open our original picture and apply Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation with next presets to change hue and saturation:

See the difference now:

Duplicate this layer with Ctrl+J and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with similar settings to these:

After that mess with the layer mode & opacity/fill. I tried Multiply with a fill of 60%.

Now use Image > Adjustments > Lеvels with next presets to make the color correction:

See the result below:

Ok, now I would like to add the dark areas along the picture edges to create focus for the future accent. To do this create a new layer and fill it with black color. Then select the Eraser Tool (Opacity: 50%) and a soft round brush about 300 px and clear the inner area as shown on my picture:

Set layer opacity to 70% up:

Ok, we are done with background. Time to add an accent to our picture. I got it from another picture. You can find it using Google search or feel free to use this one. Open this file, then select the Polygonal Lasso Tooland select the boy’s body as on picture below:

Use Ctrl+C to copy selected part of image from this photo and paste copied fragment to the main document. Then use Ctrl+T to to miniaturize this fragment a little bit and move it down as shown on my picture:

Tweak contrast of the fragment using Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast with with similar settings to these:

See the difference:

Ok, now time to add some shadow under the boy. Go to the layer under the boy and create a new layer. Then select the Brush Tool and a soft round brush about 15 px and draw black spot as below:

Time to add bigger shadow from boy’s body. Create a new one layer, then select the Brush Tool with the same parameters and create bigger spot on the floor as on my picture:

I think it will be better to make this shadow a little bit sparse in the end. For this effect select the Eraser Tool(Opacity: 30%) and a soft round brush about 45 px and make a couple of clear strokes. Now shadow looks better, isn’t it?

To finish off the tutorial I think we need to do a little burn work with the boy’s picture. Using the
Now, using the Dodge Tool with moderate settings (Brush: 250 px, Range: Shadows, Exposure: 25%) do a little bit of dodge-work on this layer.

Now duplicate this layer with Ctrl+J and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next presets:

After that change layer mode to Soft Light and set opacity up to 65%.

We are done for now. Looks good as for me! Use it, make it and enjoy your own nice photo effects!

How to Duplicate Professional Camera Filter in Photoshop

Professional photographers who makes pictures of the night the city can use different filters in their professional camera to achieve certain effect on the photo. What to do when there is no professional equipment? In this way Photoshop can help us!

In the beginning open up the photo you’ve chosen to be working with for this tutorial. Also you can use Google Images to find other pictures. Duplicate it once with Ctrl+J and select light sources on the picture withImage > Adjustments > Levels. Set with similar settings to these:

Now we have something like this:

Most of the elements of photography will disappear, except for the bright spots. But now some spots are redundant also. You can remove it with the Brush Tool with black color.

Ok, after that change layer mode to Screen and duplicate this layer with Ctrl+J. After that start to create interesting professional camera lighting effect. Apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur to the current layer:

But the effect is almost not noticeable now:

It can be strengthened through Image > Adjustments > Levels with moderate settings:

Looks good, but glowing is not so real right now. Press Ctrl+F (apply Motion Blur one more time) to resolve this problem.

Looks better than before. Ok start with the second part of the effect. Go to the layer under and apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur, but don’t forget to change to opposite.

After that apply the same Image > Adjustments > Levels as for the layer under.

Now, press Ctrl+F to make this glowing more realistic.

Ok, now we have and interesting professional camera filter effect. Well, we’re done for this tutorial! Thanks for reading to everyone.