Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop

January 26, 2007 by Emanuele Feronato
Filed Under Photoshop • 32 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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32 Responses to “Vintage colors effect action for Photoshop”

  1. Pamela on February 3rd, 2007 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 19th, 2007 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 10th, 2007 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 12th, 2007 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 12th, 2007 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. Ama Lea on November 26th, 2007 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.

  7. steff on March 18th, 2008 6:27 pm

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

  8. Danni on April 19th, 2008 12:32 am

    Vintage is in ;)

    Very cool, worked for me // thanks!

  9. Stephany on April 19th, 2008 10:07 pm

    This effect worked lovely :)

  10. muskarine on April 24th, 2008 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?

  11. Vijay on May 2nd, 2008 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

  12. Ale on June 15th, 2008 9:32 am

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

  13. Sylvia on August 4th, 2008 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

  14. Lea on August 20th, 2008 3:18 am

    How do you use this?

    Pamela, you’re an idiot.

  15. quexerra on September 17th, 2008 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!

  16. mark on September 29th, 2008 7:15 am

    yes very cool indeed… old school is new nowadays…

  17. manu on November 8th, 2008 2:38 am

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

  18. Iz on December 16th, 2008 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!

  19. roxie on January 4th, 2009 6:06 am

    thanks, it’s great! :)

  20. nevervoid on February 13th, 2009 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

  21. Sebastian on April 17th, 2009 12:58 pm

    Thanks a lot for this superb action! :)

  22. Brunna. on May 3rd, 2009 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 ;)

  23. Miguel on May 10th, 2009 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

  24. GINA on July 1st, 2009 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

  25. maria on August 9th, 2009 3:13 pm

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

  26. ALYSSA on October 5th, 2009 1:23 am

    THANKS U SO MUCH I APPRECIATE IT:)!

    GREAT ACTION!

  27. .D. on January 12th, 2010 10:56 am

    thanks! it’s great!!

  28. Mandi on January 12th, 2010 5:25 pm

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

  29. midgetgiant on February 26th, 2010 6:02 pm

    BRILLIANT!!

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