Antique Photo Effect

Create a vintage photo look and add an old-fashioned frame.

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

bonaroo said on — June 18, 2010 @ 4:48 pm

whoa! first comment!
Jim K. said on — June 18, 2010 @ 6:24 pm

Thanks Corey…I am still using CS4, so this one was fun to try. I did one with a rectangular frame, as I could not find a suitable oval one. Had to rack my brain to get that antique glass reflection effect on a squarish image without it looking too funky.

my result: http://kingjs.deviantart.com/art/Antique-Picture-168143605
MikeV said on — June 18, 2010 @ 6:47 pm

Great tutorial Corey! Thanks.
Andrew said on — June 19, 2010 @ 12:29 am

Very cool, I am glad there is somewhere I can learn new things by someone who is very talented at photoshop and actually knows what they are doing. Thanks!
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Ann said on — June 21, 2010 @ 5:58 am

lovely and so easy explained! thank you
Michael Preston said on — June 21, 2010 @ 7:19 am

Outstanding, Corey…Thanx!!
Taner said on — June 21, 2010 @ 1:16 pm

whay I can’t see the video ?

P.S.I’m from Bulgaria
nfp said on — June 21, 2010 @ 5:38 pm

Ahh! I have picture in frame, now i need to add 50 % gray fill.. you say shift + delete? dont work for me.. sorry, mistake is probably my english, thx!
Peter Newman said on — June 22, 2010 @ 5:12 pm

Super tutorial.Is the Frame available for download??

Regards

Peter Newman
Lisa Hansen said on — June 23, 2010 @ 11:30 pm

Nice….I love this video. Thanks!
Melissa Chambers said on — June 23, 2010 @ 11:48 pm

Thanks so much Corey! This is great!
Milenka said on — June 24, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

Very cool tutorial! I’ve learned new tips form it
Brad Lawryk said on — June 24, 2010 @ 6:50 pm

Dang! Corey makes stuff look so easy ….
sherbi seerattan said on — June 24, 2010 @ 9:19 pm

is the frame available for download. this is awesome. i love.
sherbi seerattan said on — June 24, 2010 @ 9:21 pm

is the frame available for download? love the turorial, dont know if i can do it.
Barbara Stirling said on — June 24, 2010 @ 11:05 pm

Great job, as always, Corey. Thanks.
Jeff said on — June 26, 2010 @ 11:06 pm

@nfp

He’s working on mac, if you’re on PC it’s “shift + backspace”
Dilraj Singh ( India) said on — June 27, 2010 @ 1:21 pm

Thanks!!! Dear Corey….

ur fan from India
Victoria said on — July 1, 2010 @ 4:40 am

Graciassssssssssss Corey
Said said on — July 2, 2010 @ 6:00 am

Many thanks Corey, as always great staff .
Ben Tennyson said on — July 5, 2010 @ 1:07 pm

Whoa..the tutorial is good..wanna try them on my CS4
Val_Ery said on — July 5, 2010 @ 1:08 pm

SPASIBO!!!
Thanks Corey
Стъки said on — July 5, 2010 @ 1:18 pm

Impossible Is Nothing
Maher Sinjary said on — July 5, 2010 @ 1:37 pm

Its really good job,
I like this tutorial.. and the good thing is I learnt something in CS5.
Carlos Eduardo said on — July 5, 2010 @ 1:53 pm

Your tutorial was realy good, i liked, isnt hard to do, with pr a little practice i can get nice resoult. Thank You So mutch.
Mona said on — July 5, 2010 @ 2:14 pm

Love it!
Pitboy said on — July 5, 2010 @ 2:18 pm

Nice … cool toys, especially appreciate how you clearly state pc and apple keys.

One thing … DONT MOVE SO MUCH.
In the video, you tend to move your layers constantly.
Even when not forced to adjust or move them so we can see all your working layers. Its almost twitch like. At the beginning for example, you moved the girls image about 6 times before even doing anything to it.
As well you tend to move your mouse randomly, and open menu’s your not going to use.
To watch this type of random motion is nauseating to a viewer. We are trying to focus on every movement so we can learn the workflow, and if there are pointless random movements … we are forced to watch and follow all of them in case we need to log it as important.
Think of it this way … your hand and brain is on the mouse, so your hand moves, your brain automatically disregards unimportant movement. As watchers, we dont have that luxury.
You explain your actions and workflow well, and once you got busy, the random movements went away, as you had stuff to do.
Just keep this in mind when you are talking and not doing much … keep your mouse still, and only make very purposeful, slow motions with each layer, to get it where you need it.
If you practiced (and I can tell you do) the video this way, and found the most appropriate spot for each layer before hand, when you have 5 or 6 layers open at once, all you have to show us is one motion in the workflow, to get those layers there.

Again, your skill is obvious, and we benefit from this stuff, but from your, and our perspective, watching it is very different from just doing it.

Thx, and I hope you dont mind a little constructive criticism.
nana said on — July 5, 2010 @ 3:56 pm

nice thank you for sharing
Ashitaka said on — July 5, 2010 @ 4:53 pm

Amazing
tottiediola said on — July 5, 2010 @ 8:05 pm

All I can say is WOW! Direct and Easy to understand and a very cool effect. Thanks Corey.
David said on — July 6, 2010 @ 1:51 am

Thank you, Excellent and top notch tutorial, I did have trouble with shift delete shortcut, might be that i’m using a pc, However i just added a new fill layer and it achieved the same result.

Once again thank you i learnt lots more little tid bits that i will use every day
Rosalie said on — July 6, 2010 @ 4:42 am

Video finished before the process was over?? Mind you there is plenty to learn in what I saw anyhow! Thank you
deeman said on — July 6, 2010 @ 9:18 am

Thanks man. It was quite educating.
Valeriu said on — July 6, 2010 @ 11:42 am

nice tut… too bad that mine is a bit failure (instead of broken glass as intended end up with thorn picture)…

my sample here >>> http://www.logobank.ro/old.jpg
Keren said on — July 6, 2010 @ 4:42 pm

The only thing I don’t like about the finished piece is that the photo/glass seems to be sitting on top of the frame instead of in it. There was a point you could have added the bevel, that made it seem more like it was properly inside of the frame.
mili3 said on — July 9, 2010 @ 8:20 am

great!
Anca Lazar said on — July 12, 2010 @ 9:57 am

Super!!! Thank you it is a wonderfull tutorial. I put my daughter picture in it. It looks great …thanks for the lesson.
See you!
Rebecca Danieli said on — July 22, 2010 @ 2:33 pm

Hi Corey
I am glad to see that you have increased the size of your screen. It’s much easier to follow you now.
Thanks
Rajendra Kumar (India) said on — July 24, 2010 @ 7:39 pm

Hi Guru!!
That was really cool. A normal frame can be turned out into a splendid art work!!!! that is really great. I loved the video.
Thanks a lot for that.
tmx said on — July 26, 2010 @ 10:32 am

hey corey. where can I get all those pictures for use in cs4?
for example this girl and all the other pics you used in other tuts.
great tuts by the way thanks !
Don said on — August 2, 2010 @ 1:24 pm

Nice!!! Keep the tutorials coming. Like an earlier commenter, I am still using CS4. As I’m sure many others have not upgraded to CS5 as well, it is helpful to see some tuts for the earlier versions. Very good job. You made this a simple, easy to follow process.
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Allard Schager said on — September 14, 2010 @ 2:41 pm

Great tut Corey! Here’s my version, if you’re interested

http://www.flickr.com/photos/allard1/4990241281/
Awesome said on — October 25, 2010 @ 5:02 pm

Awesome thanks alot
shiry said on — December 30, 2010 @ 10:59 pm

fresh!!!! thank you