These three photoshop actions will give your photos a nostalgic look and make them really stand out on your beautiful scrapbook layouts. Create three distinct effects with the Yellowed, Blued and Faded Soft Pastel Actions. Nothing makes your layouts stand out more than a really striking photo and with these actions your layouts will be sure to be admired.

Yellowed – Give your photos that aged yellow look you see on so many old photos that have been sitting in a photo album for years.

Blued – Many polaroid photos take on a blue and blurry effect after the passage of time, turn your photos into aged Polaroids with this action.

Soft Pastel – Use the Soft Pastel action for an aged, desaturated, faded and slightly altered color effect. Perfect to add a romantic aged look to your photos.

Run the actions more than once or combine them to enhance the effects even further.

Note: These actions work best on photos of at least 1500 pixels or more. These actions (.atn) have been tested in Photoshop Elements 7 & 8, Photoshop CS, CS2, CS3, CS4 & CS5. Instructions on how to load and run the actions are included.

Don’t miss the other Foto Action Pack’s available for more fabulous photo effects. Kit Includes:

~1 Yellowed Photo Action
~1 Blued Photo Action
~1 Fade Soft Pastel Photo Action

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Great photo effects to quickly and easily give your photos a professional look. Great for heritage layouts!

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Here is the pdf version of the tutorial.

Firstly the important thing to remember with overlays is that in order to get maximum use out of them you need to be experimenting with blend modes.

In Photoshop, you will find the various blend modes available to you in the Layers Palette.

For our first example I am going to use a photo. I know I often forget the interesting effects you can produce by using overlays on photos.

Here is the original photo of tulips and the second version, with Water Color Arsenal Overlay number 1 from the set, laid over the top and using the Linear Light Blend Mode.

As you can see, using the Linear Light blend mode, lightens the colours of the photo underneath in conjunction with the lighter colours in the overlays, and darkens the darker colours in the overlay and colours underneath giving an interesting water colour wash effect.

In the following sample, I have laid two different water colour overlays on a paper from my Sea Biscuit Page Kit available in the DSP store.

On this sample I used the Colour Burn blend mode on both Overlay layers. Colour burn tends to give a wet saturated look on lighter colours making the paper in this case almost look like wet fabric.

Overlay Blend Mode will produce a softer effect to Linear Light. On the Paper below from my P365 Essentials Vol 2 Page Kit I have used the water colour overlay over the top of the paper using an Overlay Blend Mode. The effect can be adjusted by reducing the opacity of the layer.

You can also experiment with blend modes to age your photos. The photo below is a monochrome image of my daughter taken a few years ago. Adding a water colour overlay with a Hard Light Blend Mode and 61% Opacity gives the photo an aged look. This effect works best on dark monochrome photos. You could get similar effects with different blend modes on lighter photos.

Here is the original photo and the photo with the Hard Light Blend Mode

You can enhance your special effects even further buy recolouring the overlays. There are so many possibilities available to you.

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Have you ever wanted to add some ink to your layouts, well now is your chance! I have just added a set of Inked Edges Stamps to the store at DSP. The stamps come in both .png and .abr photoshop brush format within the set, for maximum usage options. The black .png images are easy to recolour or to create into brushes in your own program of choice, or if you have photoshop, just load the brush set and you are ready to go! A must have item for any die hard digiscrapper!

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I have done a tutorial to demonstrate how to achieve the effect in photoshop. The challenge is to create a layout using the cross processed photo and have it take up the entire page.

I decided to scraplift a layout done by Klamb1111 because I loved the affect she created on her layout with the tutorial and had the perfect photo to use after Jasmine learnt how to ride her bike without training wheels over the weekend!

Anyway, here is my layout using the technique, using the cross processed photo, blend modes and a background paper from my Altered Heart Page Kit.

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