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Add vintage style
to your photos
Give your images a time-worn look
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Add some
scratches
For a more aged look, you
need some scratches! Using
the Adjustment Brush with a
low Size, set Exposure to 1.6
or so, and vary the Density
slider, beginning at around- Swipe your mouse
quickly across the photo.
A higher Density setting
gives deeper scratches.
Use the Erase Brush to
tidy up messy scratches.
Sean
McCormack
Sean McCormack is
a photographer and
writer, based in Galway.
He’s the author of The
Indispensable Guide
to Lightroom CC.espite the passing of time, we’re still adding
filters to our photos to give them a older feel.
Instead of the vintage trend waning, there are
more options all the time, in a bid to give us a
distinctive style – or, at the very least, to be
at the front of a trend. If you truly want to be unique, though,
the best way is to understand the parts that make up a filter.
The elements of creating an aged photo look can be used
as building blocks in creating a range of looks. You’ll be able
to tone an image, fade it, add texture and even drop in border
effects. And the beauty is you’ll be doing it all with the raw
file, so everything is completely removable and repeatable.
Along with old tools, you’ll be using the newest tools of
Lightroom Classic (or Camera Raw). Try variations to come
up with your own unique look. When you’re done, save your
look as a Preset by pressing Ctrl+N (or Cmd+N in macOS).
It will appear in User Presets in Lightroom’s Develop Module.D
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