#vintage tutorial

Okay, so this tutorial is basically gonna be just a quick way to make a vintage-ish looking photo. I don't really know if vintage is the right word to describe it, but yeah. An old timey looking photo or whatever, I don't know. This tutorial was actually inspired by a video of a gimp tutorial I watched about five years ago. I would find it, but that would require searching through the depths of Youtube. What you'll need: 1. A photo of your choice to edit. 2. Textures: here | here 3. Some inspiration. STEP 1: After you opened your image and resized/cropped it to your liking, you're gonna go to filter>noise>add noise. If it's a low quality image, you don't have to do this. 

STEP 2: Next, go to layer>new adjustment layer>hue/saturation. You're gonna bring down the saturation a bit... or a lot. It's up to you. 

STEP 3: You're gonna add your textures now. From the grunge texture pack, use the one called "04small" (it's the brown one). Paste it onto a new layer on your edit, resize it to be the same size of your edit, and then set it to soft light. If you want it to be darker, you duplicate the layer (ctrl + J), and then adjust the opacity to your liking. 

STEP 4: Now you're gonna repeat step three using "texture b" from the vintage paper pack, and set the layer mode to overlay. Depending on how bright your picture is, the percentage of the opacity will vary. 

STEP 5: Go to layer>new adjustment layer>curves. Apply these settings, and then adjust the layer's opacity to your liking. Normally, I'd screencap ever setting for the curves, but I'm lazy. 

STEP 6: You're add a photo filter next. The color of the filter will vary, so just pick whichever one you think looks best. When I had made the Hyunsik edit, I ended up using a warming filter. For Eunkwang (the guy in the picture, if you didn't already know who is he), I'm using an emerald filter. Don't be afraid to play around with the filters, remember, there's thing magical thing called undo (ctrl + Z). 

STEP 7: Make a new layer and fill it with a orange mustard-ish color (I hate mustard, by the way). Then set it to either overlay or soft light, depending on how intense you want the color to be, and adjust the opacity to your liking. (Here's the color I used if you wanna be exact: #ffa646)

STEP 8: Making a border is optional. Basically just use the ellipse tool to select a big oval/circle, feather the selection by about 50, and then invert it. After that, fill it with a dark brown color, and adjust the opacity to whatever you want. (You can set the layer mode to whatever you want, it doesn't have to be overlay.)