
Authentic Vintage Effect
A beautiful effect for giving your photos an old vintage feel.
Note: This tutorial has been adapted from this Photoshop tutorial by Veerle.
Choosing your photo
This effect tends to work best with photos with vivid colors (sky, grass, etc). This is the photo we will be using:
Swirly Grass and Sky by habitatgirl
Adjusting your photo
The following steps are for this photo. Remember to experiment as each photo is unique!
Once you've opened your photo, go to Colors > Brightness-Contrast... and set the contrast to +20.
Colors > Hue-Saturation:
Now go to Colors > Curves. Select "Red" from the Channel drop-down and adjust the curve:
Next, adjust the "Green" channel:
And the "Blue" channel:
Click OK.
Go to Colors > Hue-Saturation again:
Adding a Vignette
Create a new layer. Set its opacity to about 50%.
Select the ellipse select tool and draw a selection that covers your entire canvas.
Select > Feather by 150px:
Select > Invert.
Fill your selection with black.
Final Touch
To give your photo a pinkish tone (associated with sun burn of old photos), create a new layer. Set its opacity to about 8%.
Fill it with a very vivid magenta (#FF0090).
Ta-da!
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What a great tutorial, thanks!
Thanks for such a helpful turtorial! Saved me a lot of time playing with the settings to get my photos looking just right, as I tend to alter too many parameters instead of reverting and trying something different. Also - making two versions of the tutorials did me a big favor! No pausing and scrubbing to make sure I didn't miss an important step.
Thank you for this. I'm a new GIMP user and any and all tutorials are much appreciated.