| Open any photo. Mine is of Our Lady of Good Voyage church in
Gloucester, MA. |
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Add noise to the image by choosing Image/Noise/Add. Select uniform and
Noise=20.
Next make your image Grayscale by choosing Colors/Grayscale, then increase the color depth
back to 16 million Colors/Increase color depth/16 million colors. |
| Adjust the brightness to give it a faded/washed out look.
Colors/Adjust/Brightness contrast set brightness=20 contrast=20. |
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Next add aged color. Choose Colors/Colorize and set Hue=30
Saturation=50. |
| Now we need to soften the photo some so choose Image/Blur/Soften one
time. |
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We need to soften just the edges of the photo just a bit more. Add a
symetric border of 20 pixels. |
With the magic wand tool select the bordered edge Match Mode=RBG,
Tolerance=1, Feather=0.
Select the flood fill tool, and with the foreground as white, fill the border. Now modify
the selection by choosing Selection/Modify/Feather set to 20 pixels. |
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Flood fill the area with white until you have soften the edge to your
liking.
Deselect the image and save! |
I got this idea from Jan Eriksson (sorry can't find an active link any
more). I have made a few changes in some of the settings.
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