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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12 Comment(s)

  1. Pamela | Feb 3, 2007 | Reply

    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 | Feb 19, 2007 | Reply

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

  3. Rebecca | Aug 10, 2007 | Reply

    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 | Aug 12, 2007 | Reply

    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 | Oct 12, 2007 | Reply

    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 | Nov 26, 2007 | Reply

    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 | Mar 18, 2008 | Reply

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

  8. Danni | Apr 19, 2008 | Reply

    Vintage is in ;)

    Very cool, worked for me // thanks!

  9. Stephany | Apr 19, 2008 | Reply

    This effect worked lovely :)

  10. muskarine | Apr 24, 2008 | Reply

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

  11. Vijay | May 2, 2008 | Reply

    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 | Jun 15, 2008 | Reply

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

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