Vintage

Vintage look? why not...it's an old look, or have that nostalgic, lo-fi look of your image. Been reading several magazines, searching the internet for additional information about creating that vintage look and finally figured it out, it's fast and easy -- but not easy as what you think! You need to spend a lot of time in the computer using any photoshop editor software you have, learn the secret of layering techniques, filtering, enhancing images, take control of your picture, good cropping, and etc.

Light leak effect. Key Skills Covered

*Auto contrast

*Levels

*Gradient tool

*Layer masks

01. Set up the basic contrast. Open up your image, duplicate the background layer by Ctrl+J and then run Image into Auto contrast.

02. Add the reds. Add a levels, select red from the drop-down menu, push the white slider and adjust the top ramp to 200, move the black slider bottom to 200.

03. Add the yellows. Select blue from the drop-down menu and move the black slider top ramo inwards to 100, white slider on the bottom ramp to 150 to add yellow. Then, select RGB and move the black slider on the bottom ramp to 20.

04. Select the gradient tool. Press G to access this tool. Now select the Linear gradient tool, pick the foreground to background. Hit the enter and then press D to reset the colour palette from white and black.

05. Click, drag and release. With the levels layer mask active, you need to click, drag and release to apply the gradient to the mask so that the light leak colour is localised. Click and drag again, many times you want, as soon as you the appropriate result you want.

06. The finish effect. Now, adjust the opacity slider in the layers palette to 60% for a more subtle result.

07. Blue shadows.  Add a levels layer, select the blue from the drop-down menu and push the black slider bottom ramp up to a setting of 70 to add a nice blue tone to the shadows.

08. Yellow highlights. Next, move the white slider bottom ramp 230 to add a little yellow to the highlights. Just a bit sharpening to do ...click the image background copy, click the enhance palette top menu, drag down and hit the adjust sharpness, add the amount sharpness that you think looks appropriate.

Thank you for taking time to read my post.

Leaning is fun, especially when your  having fun, and love doing it. I love creating my photos, in so many ways.

Using Photoshop Elements 6 , pse6.