Polaroid

To get my photographs i have taken to look more like authentic 1970s images i have done a lot of photo editing on them. To get the age look on the images i have tried to play around with different filters, effects and noise to try and get that ruff photo look that i was wanting. After a hour or so playing around i have finally got the look i was aiming for.

to do this i was using this photo as reference. 

So to start i loaded up my image and add a black and white filter- then adjusted the tones of the colors till i was satisfied. This then had given me a base to build up from. 

Now from my base image i added a hue and saturation layer to make the image look a bit more washed out and hazed.

I then added a layer masked and added some exposure around the edges as on old photos like the one i have been looking at they are faded along the edges and corners. 

Now i was nearly done i added a warming photo filter to give it a yellow tinted vintage look which drastically ages your photo. to the filter effect i then added a vertical line effect in so it looked like it had been printed out on a old polaroid. However something wasn't right and it looked like sombody trying to edit a photo to look old. It didn't look authentic enough for my liking and it need to look old but in a subtle way. 

I then added a a speckle effect to the image so it looked battere

d and aged. To do this i had to create a new white layer and added some gaussian noise to it so it looked like this...

Once i had done that i then got the magic wand and selected a area and then deleted it. Which then left lots of speckles over the face. However it needed to be toned down and not so obvious so i added a soft light layer style so it blended in more with the image 

Now finally i was almost happy but i felt it needed like a shinny effect to it where it had a light spot in it. So i basically created a new layer and painted on a white spot that faded out that was then overlaid. 

So once again here is the finish piece. 

Now the only thing left to do now i had my image sorted is to put it into the Polaroid which was 21x 25 cm which was a 1970s size.