Creating an "Old" photo

[Pvt_Davis_20th_Maine]

Do any of you have any favorite programs for altering a photo to make it look "old"? Are there any freeware programs out there or less expensive programs?

[BHoover]

Re: Creating an "Old" photo

Do any of you have any favorite programs for altering a photo to make it look "old"? Are there any freeware programs out there or less expensive programs?

Not sure if you mean "old" as in a photo which has been around for 100 years or "old" as in "old-timey" which would be more appropriate for a photo being used as a LH item. (Although if that is the case, then modern printing methods will not be accurate at all). In either case, there is a very good photo manipulation program called The GIMP. It has nearly all the functionality of PhotoShop but has the benefit of being totally free. It is available for many platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, etc) and can be found here.

It won't have anything called "old photo" as a setting, but with the various properties you can pretty much do what you want to an image.

[Pvt_Davis_20th_Maine]

Re: Creating an "Old" photo

Bruce,
Thank you very much for that info....free is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks again

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Creating an "Old" photo

Find a good wetplate artist

[markj]

Re: Creating an "Old" photo

Greetings,

Here's a semi-famous story from many years ago: To create a 19th century look for a photo to be used on a record (remember them?) cover, the photographer simply soaked the photo in coffee and then stomped the living daylights out of it. The "period effect" reportedly produced was amazing.

I'm not saying you have to do this but it might be worth a try just to see what happens.

Regards,

Mark Jaeger

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Creating an "Old" photo

Greetings,

Here's a semi-famous story from many years ago: To create a 19th century look for a photo to be used on a record (remember them?) cover, the photographer simply soaked the photo in coffee and then stomped the living daylights out of it. The "period effect" reportedly produced was amazing.

I'm not saying you have to do this but it might be worth a try just to see what happens.

Regards,

Mark Jaeger

I know a guy (jerk) that took his WW2 reenacting pants and baked them in the oven along with some other goofy things. He later sold them on Ebay for @ $900.

Do not try this at home!