Going For Vintage

Recently I've been going through some of my old work and old techniques when I found this little gem of a photo. Once again the media make girls had done some work (crafting vintage beard wigs) that they wanted to get photographed. Well considering that these beards were meant to be from the 1800's I thought why not try and make this photo look more vintage to suit the image more. 

This is the original image, unedited 

This is a stencil I found off the internet which I used to overlay my photo

It was free and copyright free as well

This is my final image, after reverting the photo into black and white 

then erasing the edges to give a rough look I placed the overlay on top and blended it in 

 Overall I am rather happy with how this came out,

 though I think I might go back and place little white

lines into the photo to look like scratches.

That will add the aged roughed up finish to the photo.

Retouching Photos

 Recently I have been working on improving my skills on Photoshop, so on of the first things I worked on was retouching photos. Starting with this old photo (This is not a photo I've taken personally, but it looked rather old and tatter which was perfect for what I needed) there are many ways you can go about with editing a photo and taking things out, it takes a lot of time and patience. The main tools I used were the Spot Healing tool and the clone stamp tool, where you use the data and colour information around you to correct little blemishes. Below left is the image before and to the right of that image is the corrections I made to the photo.