Here I’ll be showing you how to turn some bland snaps you’ve got sitting around into vintage works of art. I’ll be giving a quick and easy explanation for how to achieve something like the look I’ve gotten in the photo below.

Vintage 01a

Below we have my two source images and my Photoshop layers palette. As you can see the source photo is a bland quick snap, next to that we’ve got a texture I scanned from a book, and lastly my layers palette. It’s pretty much self-explanatory with my settings in the layer names. All you’re really doing is duplicating your photo and setting each to a different mode which give a different effect.

Then as a final touch I’ve added the adjustment layers above it to help with saturation and contrast. All I’m doing with the contrast is increasing the highlights and shadows as well ass boosting some midtones so it doesn’t blow out as much.

Of course there are a thousand ways to spin-off of this method, so go ahead and try different things to get effects that you like.

Vintage 01b

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