Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop

January 26, 2007 • Photoshop by Emanuele Feronato • 47 Comments

Today I found an interesting tutorial on deviantart and once fitted to my needs, I converted it to a Photoshop Action

Look at the colors:

Before

Before vintage colors

After

After vintage colors

Download the action and give me some feedback

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This post has 47 comments

  1. Pamela

    on February 3, 2007 at 3:42 am

    Hi. I got banned from dA…. I’ll be back on when I can.

    But that is not the point! This is:

    In my opion (just mine, you may not think this) I think the Before looks WAY better. It’s just brighter and brings out the car where as it doesn’t in After and also in After I was finding it diffcult it locate the arm coming out of the car.

    Hey, take no notice of me…

  2. fredo

    on February 19, 2007 at 1:56 am

    way to miss the point pamela… This is a cool effect. Colors look like a faded 70′s sweater catalog.

  3. Rebecca

    on August 10, 2007 at 1:47 am

    I do think this is a cool effect. When I saw the ‘after’ I immediately thought of the pictures of my dad when he was young and growing up in the 70′s, driving his orange van and sporting a sweet mini hippy white-boy fro. Way to go!

  4. Tawny

    on August 12, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    I haven’t used this yet, but I think that your sample looks great. This is a very popular effect out right now. I will incorporate it soon with some of the other levels adjustments I use. Thanks!

  5. nic

    on October 12, 2007 at 8:39 am

    Hey Emanuele,

    Looks great. I’ve tried it out but I don’t really know what preferences I should plug in under the Fill window. How do I do that?

    Thanks!

  6. Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop : Emanuele Feronato - blog of an italian geek

    on October 15, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    [...] have already created an action to simulate this effect in Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop, but I am sure you’ll like this effec [...]

  7. Ama Lea

    on November 26, 2007 at 6:05 am

    I was looking for something with this effect and I tried to make my own for several hours before coming across this. I used it and it turned my photo slighly blue but I added some “sepia” tone and it gave the effect I was looking for! Thank you!

    Ps. Pamela you’re an idiot.

  8. steff

    on March 18, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    what photoshop do you have to use wit this??? does it matter?

  9. Danni

    on April 19, 2008 at 12:32 am

    Vintage is in ;)

    Very cool, worked for me // thanks!

  10. Stephany

    on April 19, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    This effect worked lovely :)

  11. muskarine

    on April 24, 2008 at 5:37 am

    i’m sorry for this but how exaclty do i use an action in photoshop, i mean how do i apply it?

  12. Vijay

    on May 2, 2008 at 6:19 am

    This is THE BEST Retro effect Photoshop action. I am wondering if you could write a nice action for Photoshop to give photos the archies card effect

  13. Ale

    on June 15, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Genial!! mis fotos se ven increíbles con esta acción, y en la mayoría de los casos, muy convincentes.. gracias!

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    on July 28, 2008 at 1:25 pm

    [...] am always looking for new ways to simulate vintage colors. I already published Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop and Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop but I decided to turn into an action this tutorial [...]

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    on August 3, 2008 at 12:52 pm

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  16. Sylvia

    on August 4, 2008 at 3:05 pm

    Hi. I’ve hardly ever used photoshop but I really want to learn. After I dl the zip file and unzip it how do I apply it to photoshop?
    thx

  17. Lea

    on August 20, 2008 at 3:18 am

    How do you use this?

    Pamela, you’re an idiot.

  18. quexerra

    on September 17, 2008 at 10:15 am

    Open the Window for Actions. Locate the little arrow on the right corner. Select “Load Actions” and open the .atn file.

    Thanks for the action Emanuel. Been searching all over for it. Keep up the good work!

  19. mark

    on September 29, 2008 at 7:15 am

    yes very cool indeed… old school is new nowadays…

  20. manu

    on November 8, 2008 at 2:38 am

    Hi Emanuele.
    Thank you very much to share your job and time with us.
    Kind regards
    Manuel Angel
    Photographer

  21. Iz

    on December 16, 2008 at 3:19 am

    This is truly brilliant, thank you for sharing this.

    I am new to photoshop, could anybody possibly tell me how to apply this to my photograph?

    I have managed to open the effect onto photoshop itself in ‘actions’ but what do I do next?

    Many thanks!

  22. roxie

    on January 4, 2009 at 6:06 am

    thanks, it’s great! :)

  23. nevervoid

    on February 13, 2009 at 8:55 am

    Exactly what I was pondering about and trying to find time to research… really needed this, brilliant work, keep it coming, thanks!

    - nevervoid

  24. Sebastian

    on April 17, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    Thanks a lot for this superb action! :)

  25. Brunna.

    on May 3, 2009 at 3:53 am

    Thanks SO much for that, I’ve been looking for it in a loooong time and finally found!

    Very appreciated!

    I just have to find out how to apply this in Photoshop, but I’ll search and find that ;)

  26. Miguel

    on May 10, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    thanks, it’s lovely!
    here’s an example:

    before – http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll24/eatsofa/PICTURE217.jpg

    after – http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll24/eatsofa/missionpeak.jpg

  27. GINA

    on July 1, 2009 at 4:23 am

    It looks great on your photo but when I used the action on mine, it looks nothing like yours. It turned it a purple color. Blah

  28. maria

    on August 9, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    great I loved it……just what I was looking for!

  29. ALYSSA

    on October 5, 2009 at 1:23 am

    THANKS U SO MUCH I APPRECIATE IT:)!

    GREAT ACTION!

  30. .D.

    on January 12, 2010 at 10:56 am

    thanks! it’s great!!

  31. Mandi

    on January 12, 2010 at 5:25 pm

    This is EXACTLY the kind of action I have been looking for. Thank you SO much, this is great!

  32. midgetgiant

    on February 26, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    BRILLIANT!!

  33. Janille

    on March 18, 2010 at 10:21 am

    why can`t i open the atn file ? :(

  34. ana Julia

    on April 3, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    Hi! Great work! Congratulations! Such actions are incomplete, it provides could complete? Thank you! Sorry, English is not my language. :)

  35. jkbirnir

    on July 4, 2010 at 12:04 am

    nice effect – more even lighting than many other retro effects thanks

  36. Blah

    on July 16, 2010 at 1:03 pm

    seems lazy. need to mess with saturation and textures.

  37. Heather

    on August 11, 2010 at 8:10 am

    I’ve been trying to figure this out for ages…looks awesome, thank you!

  38. Efeito Vintage

    on October 1, 2010 at 10:46 pm

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  39. A

    on February 14, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    Thank you (: i love the effect.

  40. 24 Blogazine

    on February 27, 2011 at 6:21 am

    dope action – thanks!

  41. Noga

    on March 2, 2011 at 10:16 am

    Graet action – thank you very much!

  42. achim

    on May 20, 2011 at 2:47 pm

    YES ! thank you so much. i used it for an university project.
    you can see the pictures here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7032951/uebersicht.png

    thx^20

  43. Destinee

    on October 11, 2011 at 5:03 am

    Thank you so much for this. It worked really well, I hardly had to tweak the photo after it ran. Love it!

  44. haibara

    on October 17, 2011 at 9:35 am

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!~

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    on January 5, 2012 at 4:32 pm

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  46. Jibz Actions

    on January 12, 2012 at 6:37 am

    A fantastic effect!

  47. Jibz Actions

    on January 12, 2012 at 6:39 am

    Hey Emanuele,

    I searched and found your tutorial …thanks

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