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	We usually make a photo more impressive by adding the effects or painting to your photo with many brushes... today, I will show you how to make a photo look older with some simple steps.

We usually make a photo more impressive by adding the effects or painting to your photo with many brushes... today, I will show you how to make a photo look older with some simple steps. And here is the final

from the original

This tutorial is not hard, you can easyly follow this tutorial:

Step 1. Open the original photo, and choose Filter > Distort > Diffuse Glow

With this step, the photo will be

Step 2. Duplicate layer background (Ctrl + J). Select the layer "Background Copy" and choose Filter > Render > Clouds

Change its blending mode to Screen, so you will have

Step 3. Select the "Background" layer (original photo) and duplicate it again (Ctrl + J)

Move the layer that you duplicated to the top of the list in Layer tab and change its blending mode to Multiply

You will have

Merge all the layers to 1 layer by link all of the layer and press Ctrl + E.

Step 4. Desaturate layer "Background" (Shift+Ctrl+U)

- Create a new curse layer for this background

and change its propertises like that

- Create a Color Filter layer for this background

Change its propertises

Merge all the layer to 1 layer.

Step 5. Duplicate "Background" layer (Ctrl + J)

Choose Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur

Then chage its blending mode to Soft Light. So you will have

Again, merge all the layer to one layer

Step 6. Now, choose Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Hightlight

So you will have

Step 7. Create the new "Gradient Map" layer

Choose the color: #9f5600, you will have the gradient like that

Again, Merge all the layer to one layer.

Step 8. Again, choose Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Hightlight

You will have

Step 9. Duplicate "Background" layer (Ctrl + J)

Choose Filter > Render > Fiber

Change its blend mode to "Softlight" and change the opacity to 15%. You have the final

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Diez Iafir: Impressive... Mo: Perfect jess: The result is cool... eventhought I have to merge many times... Anyway, good tutorial. Rowel Orpiano: nice,its perfect... Pred@or: interesting! PinkMagnolia: Not the best tutorial I have ever read. Could be much more clear. Ayk Labis: nice art!!!!!!!!!! Cody: Looked much better before the last gradient map. But otherwise this is a great technique! arun b nair: nice & so impressive thanks for u cimpansen: Thanks for sharing. The end result is fine, but the technique can be simplified. I used more adjusment layers and less flattening for instance. Thanks anyway. Kim cimpansen: Thanks for sharing. The end result is fine, but the technique can be simplified. I used more adjusment layers and less flattening for instance. Thanks anyway. Kim Angela Mengoa: OMG! That picture is awesomeeeee, beautiful, incredible!! I´ve seen it in DA, great stock btw!!! ;P