Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop

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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37 Responses

  1. Pamela says:

    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 says:

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

  3. Rebecca says:

    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 says:

    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 says:

    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!

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  7. Ama Lea says:

    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 says:

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

  9. Danni says:

    Vintage is in ;)

    Very cool, worked for me // thanks!

  10. Stephany says:

    This effect worked lovely :)

  11. muskarine says:

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

  12. Vijay says:

    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 says:

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

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  16. Sylvia says:

    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 says:

    How do you use this?

    Pamela, you’re an idiot.

  18. quexerra says:

    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 says:

    yes very cool indeed… old school is new nowadays…

  20. manu says:

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

  21. Iz says:

    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 says:

    thanks, it’s great! :)

  23. nevervoid says:

    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 says:

    Thanks a lot for this superb action! :)

  25. Brunna. says:

    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. GINA says:

    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

  27. maria says:

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

  28. ALYSSA says:

    THANKS U SO MUCH I APPRECIATE IT:)!

    GREAT ACTION!

  29. .D. says:

    thanks! it’s great!!

  30. Mandi says:

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

  31. Janille says:

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

  32. ana Julia says:

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

  33. jkbirnir says:

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

  34. Blah says:

    seems lazy. need to mess with saturation and textures.

  35. Heather says:

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

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