A blast from the past.....

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:01 pm

......or not.

Cooper real old school.

Casper · Post by **Casper** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:23 pm

thats cool 12

you have to much time on your hands right now

Post by **pear** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 4:33 pm

Good Job!! "Jumper Cable Guy" What program is that done with?...'pear"

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:30 pm

You are right Casper, too much time.

Pear, it is done with Photoshop.

One more.........

Mary · Post by **Mary** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:49 pm

Great pictures.
Mary

Richard *UT* · Post by Richard *UT* » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:00 pm

Dang 12 one of these days you and I are going to have to sit down and you can show me how you do that. Seriously did you take a class? Where did you learn to do all that? Verry nice work :king:

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:33 pm

I think he sat in front of the computer one night when the beer rn out and had to occupy himself so he fiddled with photoshop. Looks good.

crittercontrol · Post by **crittercontrol** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:12 pm

lookin good!

Maverick · Post by **Maverick** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:25 am

Great work with Photo shop! One day I may learn how to do that.

Mav....

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:42 pm

For Casper.
He thought it would be cool if the photo looked like it had been torn. I think I almost got it. Got a new avatar too

Casper · Post by **Casper** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:00 pm

looks more like an real old photo now. cool deal, I like it.

Post by **Ayres** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:49 pm

This is the best I can come up with. I've got the old photo look down, just can't get the texture to make it look like newspaper. I'm working with Photoshop Elements though (came with my laptop) and not Photoshop CS, so I probably don't have that texture filter.

On the other hand, I do have a grey-green filter that would look very nice as a "new" newspaper photo clipping, instead of using the sepia tone.

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:05 pm

That does have an old time look to it. Nice work. I can run that texture on it for you if you want to send me the original.

Post by **Ayres** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:48 pm

What's the texture called? I'd like to see if there's an Elements version of it so I can use it all the time.

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:00 pm

I just downloaded an "action" it does all the steps for you. I couldn't tell ya exactly what it is.

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:03 pm

try playing with "emboss"

Post by **Ayres** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 10:28 pm

I'm pretty sure emboss is a way of raising or lowering the edges (the black fade-in border in your original posted pic).

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:03 pm

I gave it a go.

Post by **Ayres** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:11 am

I think I figured it out too.

I had to add a second layer with a pattern fill (something looking like a stone), then create the sepia tone on that new rock layer, then turn down the opacity to about 10% so only the wrinkles in the rock showed up, thus creating the newspaper wrinkles.

I searched near and far and could not find a newspaper or old paper texture filter to use... this was the only way I could get it. But I think it still looks good and comparable.

Post by **Ayres** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:28 am

Here it is again, revised somewhat to increase the contrast and pull out the picture so it doesn't look quite so washed out.

I love playing around with this stuff.

12 Volt Man · Post by **12 Volt Man** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:00 am

looks great.

Casper · Post by **Casper** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:42 pm

FWIW Steven yours almost looks like it was one of those afgan rugs. Almost fabric like. I like it none the less. Looks real good

Post by **Ayres** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:15 pm

Thanks!

After looking it over again I do notice where my fault lies... I increased the zoom on my stone texture to make the wrinkles larger... I should have zoomed out to make them much much smaller.

Though, I do gotta say that I have a reason for trying to mimic what 12 Volt did here. I'm creating an "In Memoriam" page for my training partner's website and I thought the old look would be a nice touch. I think I'll stick with the old photograph look though, rather than the newspaper look.