How to: create a vintage photo album in Photoshop
Digital photography is now a standard worldwide, which means that fewer and fewer people spend time creating those classic photo albums with paper photos, stickers, text scraps and other goodies. If you’re a fan of handicrafts and miss those nice hand-made albums, here’s your chance to go back to them, at least in a digital version. Follow the steps of this easy tutorial and you’ll learn how to create a vintage photo album in Photoshop.
1. First of all, we need the background for our album. After browsing the web for a while, I decided to use this old notebook I found on stock.xchng. You may want to use a different image though.
2. Open the photos you want to add to your album. Taking into account that we want to create a vintage photo album, we need to apply an old photo effect. In this case I’ll use the vintage photo effect created by Emanuele Feronato, but there are many other similar tutorials to create old photos on the Web. Also, make sure they’re photos that could be taken a few years ago – an iPhone for example won’t look that “vintage”. (more…)