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I chose this photo of my Dad. It's funny to see a cigarette in his hand. He quit smoking when I was a baby so I have no memory of him as a smoker.
As you can see when you mouse over to see the original image, I cropped it to bring my father closer. While still in Lightroom, I created a sepia version of the image. I then took both the original cropped image and the sepia version into Photoshop Elements when I layer the sepia one over the other. I kept it at 'normal' blend mode, but reduced the opacity to about 65% to allow some of the original colour to come back.
I know any snapshots from back then would have had a white frame around them, something that of course is missing from the digitized slides, so I brought in a vintage frame that I have in my files (sorry, I can't remember where it's from, but you'll be able to find lots such things by Googling it). I placed the photo into the frame and called it done!
Update: I Googled 'free vintage frames for photoshop' and found this frame with the old vintage corners and the scalloped edge at this site. There are so many wonderful 'freebies' out there! How cool is that!
As you can see when you mouse over to see the original image, I cropped it to bring my father closer. While still in Lightroom, I created a sepia version of the image. I then took both the original cropped image and the sepia version into Photoshop Elements when I layer the sepia one over the other. I kept it at 'normal' blend mode, but reduced the opacity to about 65% to allow some of the original colour to come back.
I know any snapshots from back then would have had a white frame around them, something that of course is missing from the digitized slides, so I brought in a vintage frame that I have in my files (sorry, I can't remember where it's from, but you'll be able to find lots such things by Googling it). I placed the photo into the frame and called it done!
Update: I Googled 'free vintage frames for photoshop' and found this frame with the old vintage corners and the scalloped edge at this site. There are so many wonderful 'freebies' out there! How cool is that!
