Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop

Today I was playing with Photoshop looking for some interesting photo effect and I found a quick and easy way to convert a modern photo in a vintage one.

I 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 too.

Follow me through this very easy tutorial and you’ll find by yourself how easy is to achieve this effect.

1) Open your photo

Photoshop Vintage effect

2) Set your foreground and background colors respectively to #ff0000 and #00ff00

Photoshop Vintage effect

3) Duplicate the photo layer

Photoshop Vintage effect

4) With the newly created layer use a Gradient Map

Photoshop Vintage effect

5) On the same layer, use Blending Options

Photoshop Vintage effect

6) Select Blend Mode to Color and Opacity to 50%

Photoshop Vintage effect

7) Flatten the image

Photoshop Vintage effect

8) Apply an Add Noise filter to the only layer you should have

Photoshop Vintage effect

9) Set the filter with 2% Gaussian Monochromatic values

Photoshop Vintage effect

10) Enjoy the result

Photoshop Vintage effect

You may need to play with the last two steps values in order to fit the effect to your needs.

And for the laziest of you, I made an action that does the task automatically! Download the action.

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52 Responses to “Create a vintage photo effect in Photoshop”

  1. s0d4player on October 18th, 2007 12:15 am

    A simple but a nice looking effect.

  2. jon on October 18th, 2007 8:25 am

    The tutorial is great.Could you please indicate which gradient should be use for grayscale mapping.

  3. AAR on October 26th, 2007 4:09 am

    Exelente!

  4. ettey on October 31st, 2007 7:52 am

    great tutorial! thanks for the action! :D

  5. segunda s. palakpak on November 16th, 2007 9:42 am

    great! thanx for the tutorial!

    nwayz, i played around with it using the following colors:

    foreground color: FF00EA (pink)
    background color: CAE200 (lime green)

    it produced nice results still.. ;)
    thanx for the ps action..hehe

  6. Sandra on November 18th, 2007 3:34 am

    I love it!! thats wut i was looking for!!

  7. yu on December 8th, 2007 9:25 am

    help… i downloaded the action but i don’t know where to find it?? where can i find it?? help….

  8. paulette on December 11th, 2007 8:27 pm

    i dont really think that looks like its a vintage photo it looks just like a green contrast we were born for this!!!!!

  9. paulette on December 11th, 2007 8:29 pm

    this person is absoulutley right i hated that part mi picture loooks kind of bad i want mi picture to look more vintagey i gotta get thruu this.

  10. segunda s. palakpak on March 7th, 2008 3:00 am

    i really like this tutorial..real nice..what’s even more interesting is the different kinds of results you get when you play around with all sorts of colors and blending modes..

    but i guess, the picture you have (the car) is really well suited for this effect..maybe that’s why other people were complaining why they didn’t have the same results that you showed here.. ;)

  11. RD on August 6th, 2008 6:57 pm

    Do you have a larger size version of the photo used here?

  12. eric on August 19th, 2008 3:17 am

    cool~~~i like it,thanks!

  13. sarath on November 24th, 2008 3:47 am

    vary good

  14. Pradis on December 14th, 2008 2:46 am

    simple & nice, great to come across this tutorial.

  15. Dan on December 23rd, 2008 1:58 am

    “And for the laziest of you, I made an action that does the task automatically! Download the action.”

    Thanks for thinking of me! =p

  16. david on May 6th, 2009 3:49 pm

    how do I run the action??

    thx!

  17. Samantha on May 7th, 2009 7:46 pm

    I really don’t want to be mean but my photo looks crappy nd I did it exactly like this :/

  18. Kara on May 14th, 2009 11:42 am

    Thanks so much, this was awesome!

  19. rob h on June 3rd, 2009 3:56 pm

    Great effect. I used it and it works well. I also add in some yellow and desaturate a little

  20. shaman4d on June 12th, 2009 1:18 pm

    Great! Really cool!

  21. SALWA on August 13th, 2009 1:16 pm

    this was excellent thank you heaps <3

  22. Free posting ads service on August 25th, 2009 3:37 pm

    simple & nice, great to come across this tutorial.

  23. Rodrigo Teixeira on September 27th, 2009 5:47 pm

    Great and simple tutorial! The colors that you chose are perfect.

    Nice job!

  24. Daniel on October 23rd, 2009 4:41 am

    This is great. You have no idea how glad I am to have found this site, and I really appreciate your effort in putting this together.

  25. Daniel on October 23rd, 2009 5:34 am

    Just to add to the one person who said it looks bad. On certain pictures a Blend Mode Opacity of 50% will be too much, but if you experiment around on these pictures, it’s usually just a case of setting this level at 25%-35% instead.

  26. Amanda on December 13th, 2009 7:51 am

    Thanks! This looks cool, but I don’t know if it worked as well on my picture of an older house near my brother’s school…cool effect anyway! And that’s a cool pic of the car too = D

    I didn’t use the lime green as my background color though, I used #f9d64c and I thought the gold/yellow worked really well as well. I had a higher noise % too. I guess it depends on the picture?

  27. Dimi Geo on February 2nd, 2010 5:32 pm

    great! thanx for the tutorial!

  28. Ashokkumar on March 7th, 2010 5:58 pm

    great!!!!!!!!!!!!!..

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