(Tutorial) Digitally Aging Photographs with the use of Photoscape

Nov 22

This is just a really simple and quick tutorial showing you how I 'age' my photographs digitally, whether it's just to give them more of an ethereal quality or to add a new dimension to the photograph.Here's the original photograph:and here is the digitally manipulated one:Step 1. Play with the contrast of the image and the hue/saturation until you achieve a desirable resultStep 2. For the textured finish on the photograph I used this photograph of space and layered it over the original image changing the opacity so it blended well with the image. (Software such as photoscape, photoshop and others will allow you to do this)Step 3. Add vignetting to create a shadow around the image on photoscape this can be done by going to filter > vignetting and selecting one. Photoscape also has a 'film' filter which allows you to change the appearance of your photographs to analogue film classics such as cinema, cross process, agfa, portra and velvia.For my photograph I chose to use 'Cross Process High'There are many other ways to digitally age photographs but this is a technique that I find particularly easy and effective. There are some more examples below: