As a big fan of Steampunk and to some lesser extent its cousin Seapunk and the half-brother Dieselpunk, I find myself often wanting to make everything I own Steampunk/Victorian themed.
Strange, I know. But at the very least I'd like to imitate tin-type pictures. And I finally figured out how to do it in Paint.NET (best free Photoshop/image editor, PERIOD) and I'm proud. So, I whooped up a sample from a picture I found on the net (searching for "Steampunk Fashion").
(How 'come pretty girls who like Steampunk don't live near me?
The gist of making a picture look old is adding sepia, and paper effects. Adding sepia is easy in Paint.NET (it's under one of the menus) but adding the paper effects is almost as easy. What you do is take a sample image of cardboard paper or something, put it on a new layer on top of the image. Make a duplicate layer of the paper image. Now, set the first image to "Overlay" in the layer settings, and make the other paper layer more transparent. the goal is to add the wrinkles and such to the image without obliterating the portrait. Piddle with it, it's easy!
Strange, I know. But at the very least I'd like to imitate tin-type pictures. And I finally figured out how to do it in Paint.NET (best free Photoshop/image editor, PERIOD) and I'm proud. So, I whooped up a sample from a picture I found on the net (searching for "Steampunk Fashion").
(How 'come pretty girls who like Steampunk don't live near me?
The gist of making a picture look old is adding sepia, and paper effects. Adding sepia is easy in Paint.NET (it's under one of the menus) but adding the paper effects is almost as easy. What you do is take a sample image of cardboard paper or something, put it on a new layer on top of the image. Make a duplicate layer of the paper image. Now, set the first image to "Overlay" in the layer settings, and make the other paper layer more transparent. the goal is to add the wrinkles and such to the image without obliterating the portrait. Piddle with it, it's easy!