Photoshop Tutorial: How to Transform a Color Photo into a Vintage Postcard

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hi this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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I'm going to show you how to create the

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look of an antique photograph from a

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contemporary color photo open a photo

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you'd like to use the size of this photo

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is approximately 1500 by 1000 pixels

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with a resolution of 150 pixels per inch

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open the paper texture I provided its

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link is located in the video's

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description or project files we'll use

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it later so keep it handy open back up

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your photo and make a copy of it by

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pressing ctrl J on a PC or command J on

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a Mac make a new layer below it by

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control clicking or command clicking on

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the new layer icon will fill it with a

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light gray by clicking on the foreground

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color and typing in ninety percent in

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brightness then click OK press alt or

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option + delete to fill the empty layer

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with a new foreground color click on the

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thumbnail of the top layer to make it

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active and name it base go to filter and

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filter gallery open the distort folder

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and choose to few Schlow for this photo

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I'll make the graininess 0 the glow

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amount 3 and the clear amount 11 keep in

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mind since all photos are different you

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may want to use different glow and clear

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amounts for yours when I toggle back and

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forth you can see the difference when

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diffuse glow is added next we'll add a

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soft dark vignette go to filter and lens

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correction the lens correction window

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will open click on the custom tab and

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slide the vignette amount to minus 100

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then click OK many common antique

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cameras didn't

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have quality lenses so if the photo

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you're using is perfectly focused then

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blur it slightly go to filter blur and

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Gaussian blur I'll blur this photo point

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5 pixels next we'll shift the colors to

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simulate what time temperature and

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sunlight due to the colored dyes and

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photographs click on the adjustment

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layer icon and choose brightness and

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contrast click on the clip 2 layer icon

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which restricts the adjustment layer to

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effect only the one layer beneath it

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before we modify the adjustment settings

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it's important to note that because each

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photo has its own qualities feel free to

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experiment with the amounts for each

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setting for this photo I'll set the

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brightness at minus 10 and the contrast

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minus 40 to open the adjustments tab and

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click on the hue/saturation icon since

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colors do fade over time reduce the

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saturation I'll reduce it to minus 20

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remember to click on the clip 2 layer

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icon open the adjustments tab again

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click on the color balance icon and clip

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it choose shadows I'll make the cyan red

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minus 12 the magenta green minus 40 and

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the yellow blue minus 47 click mid-tones

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make the cyan red- for the magenta green

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minus 34 and the yellow blue minus 100

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click highlights make it 25 1 and minus

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9 next we'll add the paper texture open

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it and drag it up onto the tab of your

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photo while pressing shift without

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releasing your mouse or pen drag it down

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onto the photo and release pressing

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shift keeps the paper centered notice

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it's clipping to the base which we don't

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want so go to layer and release clipping

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mask to resize and change the aspect

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ratio of the paper texture press ctrl or

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command T to open the transform tool go

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to a corner and when you see a diagonal

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double-arrow press and hold shift and

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alt on a PC or Shift + option on a Mac

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and drag it out I want to extend the

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paper up and down so I'll go to the top

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middle point repeat the keystrokes and

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drag it up then press Enter or return

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change the blend mode to multiply and

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decrease the opacity to an amount you

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like for this photo I decreased it to

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sixty percent ctrl-click or command

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click on the thumbnail of the paper

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texture to make a selection of its shape

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make the base active and click on the

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layer mask icon to make a layer mask

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next we'll add a slight thickness to the

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paper and add a subtle drop shadow click

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on the FX icon and choose bevel and

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emboss the style is inner bevel the

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technique is chisel hard the direction

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is up the size is two pixels the

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highlight opacity is zero percent and

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the shadow opacity is seventy-five

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percent click drop shadow make the

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opacity forty percent the distance for

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pixels and the size 7 pixels then click

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OK if you'd like to add text to make it

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look like an antique postcard and would

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like to use this font I provided the

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link to it so you can download it once

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its installed open your horizontal type

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tool the font is called

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little Lord Fauntleroy I'll choose a

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size of 57 points sharp and left

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alignment click on the color box and

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type in ninety percent for brightness

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click on your document and make sure

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your text layer is located directly

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under the adjustment layers type out

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your text to reposition it open your

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move tool and move it have fun creating

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the look of an antique photo or a

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postcard from a contemporary color photo

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this is Marty from Blue Lightning TV

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thanks for watching