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Old sepia photo effect

oakfieldphotography.comoakfieldphotography.com Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
edited May 30, 2011 in Finishing School
Hi everyone
i hope all is well in your end of the world , seems i have a problem that i cant sort out until i get some help. Having a very large collection of photographs of vintage and classic cars seems redundant for sales unless i can give them an edge over my competitors. I am currently using Adobe Photoshop Cs5 and i would love to be able to create this effect
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The Great Racehorse "Assault" - Famous Winner of the 7th Triple Crown and Jockey Eddie Arcaro by sunnybrook100, on Flickr
I can create the white canvas and the writing no problem. But i am having trouble getting that little black line inside the canvas and turning the whole photograph and canvas sepia.
Could anyone here help please?

Regards
Patrick:D

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    SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2011
    Easy,

    Under image, adjustment, color filter choose sepia. Adjust to taste.

    Use the rectangle marque tool to draw a box around your image then under edit choose stroke. Then specify color and size of the stroke.

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    oakfieldphotography.comoakfieldphotography.com Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2011
    Thanks Sam
    i will give it a go.

    Regards
    Patrick.
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    oakfieldphotography.comoakfieldphotography.com Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2011
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    IMG_55771 by OakField Photography, on Flickr

    hope this looks good. justa a tester anyway.

    Pat.:D
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    oakfieldphotography.comoakfieldphotography.com Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2011
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    IMG_5559 by OakField Photography, on Flickr

    Well this is my last attempt at trying to get my text right. Unfortunatly i can get the text to run down the side of the photograph but nothing like the phograph of the horse. Is there a way that i can type my text and then turn it vertical for the right side of the photo? I could type vertical but this does not look right.

    Regards
    Patrick.:D
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    divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2011
    There's an absolutely fabulous free PS action out there for a sepia effect - I think it's called something like "Sue's Vintage action" (sorry, don't have it to hand just now) - google around and if you can't find it post back and I'll dig out the details. It's very good, very easy to run (assuming it will run under CS5 - I use CS3) and gives you a choice of faded colour or true sepia.
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    oakfieldphotography.comoakfieldphotography.com Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2011
    ok Divamum i will give it a go.
    Thanks
    Patrick:D
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    oakfieldphotography.comoakfieldphotography.com Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
    edited May 28, 2011
    divamum wrote: »
    There's an absolutely fabulous free PS action out there for a sepia effect - I think it's called something like "Sue's Vintage action" (sorry, don't have it to hand just now) - google around and if you can't find it post back and I'll dig out the details. It's very good, very easy to run (assuming it will run under CS5 - I use CS3) and gives you a choice of faded colour or true sepia.

    Hi Divamum.
    i downloaded and tried some of sues actions but could not find her sepia effects actions. I tried some of her other actions but they are not really suited to old cars. Mabey you could find this for me as i am having no luck at all.
    Regards
    Patrickheadscratch.gif
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    WillCADWillCAD Registered Users Posts: 722 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2011
    Patrick, the sepia effect you used looks great, but the image still looks like a modern photo. It needs some grain added to it, and maybe some levels adjustment to make it a bit lighter.

    You may find this useful; it's a roundup of several tutorials on how to achieve a vintage photo look with modern images:
    http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/vintage-aging-photo-effects-photoshop-tutorials/
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    Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2011
    Under your text tool should be vertical text or type tool use that instead of trying to rotate the text......put all text on a separate layer so you can move it around to exact position, I also save all my layered projects with layers intact so that if I need to move or make a change I can.....then I flatten, merge or both and save the flattened image for printing....
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    WillCADWillCAD Registered Users Posts: 722 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2011
    You know, Patrick, you got me ta' thinkin' with this, so I tried it myself. I use Photoshop Elements, so my technique will be pretty different than what you will use in CS3, but it seemed to work okay.

    Original
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    Vintage
    th2010-09-29_088vintage.jpg

    This is the process I used in Elements:

    1) Old Paper effect
    --a) Enlarge the canvas (I went 20%, giving me enough room for the box and text later) using White as the Extension color
    --b) In the Effects palette, select the Old Paper effect

    The image now has a monochrome old paper look to it.

    2) Create the black outline:
    --a) Create a new layer, make it current, drag it to the top of the Layers list
    --b) Use Rectangular Marquee tool to select an area for the black outline
    --c) Edit-> Stroke (Outline) Selection... (set stroke width at about 10px, color Black, Location "Inside", Mode "Normal", Opacity 100%)

    3) Add text with the Text tool, move and rotate into preferred position

    4) Add sepia tone/parchment layer to finish
    --a) Add new layer, make it current, drag it to the top of the Layers list
    --b) Set Foreground color to RGB 255, 215, 97 and Background color to White
    --c) Use Fill tool to fill entire layer with solid color
    --d) Filter-> Render-> Clouds (this creates a parchment paper effect)
    --e) Change opacity of parchment layer to 30%

    It's not perfect, but it's not a bad effect.
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    WillCADWillCAD Registered Users Posts: 722 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2011
    Here's a color version I did with a different technique.

    th2010-09-29_088vintage2.jpg

    1) Faded Effect
    --a) Layer-> New-> Layer Via Copy
    --b) Enlarge the canvas 20% w/ white as the extension color
    --c) In the Layers palette, select the top-most layer
    --d) Enhance-> Adjust Color-> Remove Color
    --e) Filter-> Other-> High Pass (set Radius to 250px and click OK)
    --f) Set Opacity of High Pass layer to 80%
    --i) Layer-> New-> Layer From Background
    --j) Set Opacity of Background layer to 80%

    The image now has a faded, old photo look to it.

    2) Create the black outline:
    --a) Create a new layer, make it current, drag it to the top of the Layers list
    --b) Use Rectangular Marquee tool to select an area for the black outline
    --c) Edit-> Stroke (Outline) Selection... (set stroke width at about 10px, color Black, Location "Inside", Mode "Normal", Opacity 100%)

    3) Add text with the Text tool, move and rotate into preferred position

    4) Add sepia tone/parchment layer to finish
    --a) Add new layer, make it current, drag it to the bottom of the Layers list
    --b) Set Foreground color to RGB 255, 215, 97 and Background color to White
    --c) Use Fill tool to fill entire layer with solid color
    --d) Filter-> Render-> Clouds (this creates a parchment paper effect)
    What I said when I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time: "The wide ain't wide enough and the zoom don't zoom enough!"
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    divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2011
    Sorry Patrick - my mistake, because it's JENNY'S vintage action.

    http://www.deviantart.com/download/11986414/Old_Photo_by_Jenny.atn
    http://www.deviantart.com/...ownload/10893481/Upd_Very_Vintage_6_by_Jenny.atn

    This page also has some cool stuff
    http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-useful-photoshop-actions-for-photo-enhancements/
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    SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2011
    Here is one I just did:

    Sam
    www.samlinvillephotography.com
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    WillCADWillCAD Registered Users Posts: 722 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2011
    Looks great, Sam. But it needs more grain or noise to look like an old photo.

    Anyone know of a filter or action that creates fake "tears" or dust spots on an image?
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    divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited May 29, 2011
    WillCAD wrote: »
    Anyone know of a filter or action that creates fake "tears" or dust spots on an image?

    See the "Jenny" action I linked above. It does exactly that thumb.gif
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    oakfieldphotography.comoakfieldphotography.com Registered Users Posts: 376 Major grins
    edited May 30, 2011
    Hi all
    I have been on a shoot all day sunday and i havent had time to get back on here. I can see that i need to do more to my picture and i will take a look at this seriously tomorrow as i have 5 or 600 images to edit first. I am booked out next saturday and sunday and the weekend afterwards as well so i wont have much time to experiment. I will try out some of your suggestions tomorrow night as time is at a premium at the moment. Thanks for all of the ideas and i will be in contact soon.

    Regards
    Patrick.:D

    Ps just slipped a 16 gig card full of raw files and it looks like this alone is going to take about an hour and a half to copy to my laptop.rolleyes1.gif
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