Matt Kloskowski, Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, shows you how to give your photos an antique look.

Matt’s new instructional DVD “Automating Photoshop CS2″ is now available on PhotoshopVideos.com.

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1. tcannon said on — April 21, 2008 @ 11:52 am

   It would have been nice to see the completed picture for longer than a micro second.

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3. Lisa G said on — July 2, 2008 @ 7:14 pm

   Thanks for an awesome tutorial. It was just what I was looking for.

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11. Punkie said on — November 17, 2009 @ 5:13 pm

    AHH! thank you for this! (: It helped TONS!

12. Ashley said on — October 29, 2010 @ 1:40 pm

    If you like the crackling effect, I tried a few different things that I think really made it look more natural.

    First, I created my new layers as a duplicate of the background -that way you can add effects knowing how they’ll affect the original picture better.

    Second, I selected different areas and used different crystal sizes to make the crystalization look more random/natural. I used a 50 pixel feather between the areas so they would run together more smoothly.

    If you did this using a duplicate copy of the background, you now need to desaturate your edges to get the right effect.

    Then after finding the edges, I picked out parts of the picture that I did not want as crackled as others. I selected those areas and decreased the contrast while increasing the brightness to fade the cracks into the background.

    Lastly, I used an embossing filter on the whole thing to give it a real cracked look. I used a dept of only about 3 pixels.

    If you use a low opacity, you can use multiple layers like these to get an even more natural effect.

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18. V said on — October 14, 2011 @ 1:02 pm

    This was so much help! It was exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!

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