Skip to content Photoshop alone has extremely tons of features that you can use to enhance your photos. You can do almost everything you want out of your photos. One simple but highly effective thing it can do is to transform your regular photo to make it look like more vintage but in the most natural way possible. Say goodbye to those mobile apps that do the work for you; be a Photoshop expert and create your vintage photos manually. Here is how you can accomplish that.
Before going on with the tutorial, we just want to tell all of you that what we will be teaching you are basic stuff so experiment on your own will if you want something more out of what we are about to teach you. The lesson is just to up the ante for you folks to have a better view of how you can create vintage retro effects on your photos. So let’s begin.
Step 1: Use a Gradient Map
So the first thing you want to do is to add a gradient map on the photo that you want to transform to vintage. To do this, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map. From here, you can choose different colors of gradients and to arrive at the vintage style, choose the blue, yellow, blue gradient and tick the reverse colors box to reverse the colors.
What this does is that if the color blue is dominant, the yellow color will replace the blue colors and thus making the yellow shade more dominant in this effect.
Step 2: Tweak features
After doing these, change the opacity from 100% to 30-40% depending on how you like it. This will make subtle but effective changes to your photo. This adds the yellowish feature on your photos.