2015
Lynda
Seán Duggan
2:54
English
Sometimes a photo conveys a more powerful message if it's less than perfect. In this course, photographer and educator Seán Duggan shows how to use Photoshop to create vintage and distressed photo effects.
After reviewing the kinds of things that make a photo look old—fading, chemical deterioration, physical damage, and so on—Sean shows how to re-create those effects in Photoshop. He also explores other facets of vintage photography, from lens distortion to light leaks, and shows how to simulate them. The course concludes with details on adding texture and border effects to your finished photos.
Introduction
Welcome
What you should know before taking this course
Using the exercise files
1. Overview of What Causes a Distressed Look
Causes from the photographic process
Causes from the developing and printing processes
Fading, deterioration, and damage
2. Aging an Image with Tonal and Color Adjustments
Analyzing the tonal characteristics of old images
Converting a color image to black and white
Using Levels and Curves for faded and low-contrast effects
Creating a sepia-tone effect
Using Hue/Saturation to emulate a faded effect
3. Blurring Effects
Adjusting focus to emulate a vintage image
Focus falloff with Iris Blur
Focus distortion with Spin Blur and Radial Blur
Uneven focus with the Field Blur filter
Long-exposure motion-blur effects
Creating a tilt-shift-focus effect
Adding noise after a blur effect
4. Vignetting, Light Leaks, and Faded Color
Creating uneven light through vignetting
Using gradients for a light-leak effect
Transforming light-leak effects
Using layer masks and filters with light leaks
Saving a light-leak effect as a separate file
Creating a faded-color effect
Creating a cross-processed color effect
5. Textures, Damage, and Edge Effects
Where textures fit in the imaging workflow
Building an archive of texture photos
Using blend modes to combine textures and images
Using the Adobe Paper Textures Pro panel
Creating composite layers from multiple blend-mode effects
Combining a photo with a vintage-image border
Combining images for custom distressed effects
Exporting textures and borders from apps to use in Photoshop
Conclusion
Next steps
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