VINTAGE TONE PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL

One of the highly requested blog post is this particular tutorial. I have been receiving so many questions (and *ahem* compliments) about the tone that I am applying for the pictures on the blog and Instagram, but truth be told, I am not 100% satisfied with my works because my blog concentrated on restaurant reviews and each restaurant has different setting and lighting situation and for some reasons, what I had in mind about the pictures can't always be translated as how I wanted them to be, I can't always shoot with natural daylight because some restaurants don't even have the sunlight access. Aside from that, I am still having so much fun tho!

So many of you ask me how to create a Vintage tone on Photoshop. I love creating filters using Photoshop and I have almost one hundred color settings in my drive. I can't help not making more because it's almost like a challenge and on top of all, I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN! The downside is that at some cases, it's like another challenge to actually set my heart on the filter that I REALLY wanted on a single photo because I could be loving 3-4 post-filtered ones! Anyway, here I am showing you the most simple one, but the most simple doesn't mean the bad ones. I've been using this tone setting a lot!

Hey it's Chinese New Year and I am thinking about doing something good, the least I can do (online) is to teach you guys this tutorial. Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year bitches!

I am using this picture that I took at Publik Markette and I am going to transform the photo from this...

to this!

ENOUGH YAKKING, LET'S GET STARTED!
For me, Vintage tone means something classic, a bit old-school but on top of that, dreamy with that beautiful sense of warmth and cool and I am trying to translate this using my style and I believe that each person has their own style, but I do hope you'll love this tutorial, changes are always easy to make and you can always set everything depending on your standard.

1. I feel like certain areas of my photo is quite dark, so I am pushing the brightness and contrast up! I set the brightness to (+20) and contrast (+15), and to get that old photo look, I desaturate the photo to (-30).

After brightness (+20), contrast (+15) and desaturate (-30)

2. Create a new fill layer and type in the number "B2B2B2" in the box, then set the blending mode to "Hard Light" and set the opacity to "30%". This to create that soft misty faded look. I honestly starting to feel and lovin that vintage faded look. If you're satisfied enough, you can stop here :p.

3. Create a new level layer and adjust the numbers to your settings. I only adjust the settings for the RGB, Red and Blue. After this, your photo will turn very blue and purple-ish, but don't worry you're on the right track!

4. Create a new fill layer and type in the number "A25DA1" in the box, you'll have a layer of purple-pinkish color fill and change the blending mode to 20% and set the opacity to "20". Again, your photo will appear purple-ish and slightly faded.

5. Create a new level layer and adjust the numbers to your settings. I only adjust the settings for the RGB for contrast and Blue for the tonal setting. This following step will transform your photo to have this warmer undertone: yellow with the touch of green.

6. Create a new fill layer and type in the number "575245" in the box, this will create a greyish tone with a touch of brown (for some reasons didn't show up on the screen), set the blending mode to "Soft Light" and set the opacity to "40%".

7. This is the final touch! Create a new fill layer and type in the number "2F4660" in the box to create this blue color fill, set the blending mode to "Lighten" and set the opacity to "60%", this will make the shadow area layered by the moody blue color and added that extra magic touch!

I finished everything by managing all the setting in one group (drag the whole thing into the group) to make the overall opacity setting much much easier.

Here are some of the sample photos that I edited using this vintage tone, but I didn't always set the opacity to 100% because each picture has different amount of lighting, shadows and highlights, but it obviously works better on the daylight!

Opacity 80%

Opacity 50%

Opacity 70%

Opacity 65%

Opacity 80%

Opacity 50%

Opacity 80%

Opacity 70%

Opacity 75%

Opacity 80%

Opacity 60%. I love the tone for portraits!

Opacity 90%

Opacity 100%

Gosh I miss Sydney lights like A LOT! I barely put any effort to shoot </3

Remember, the key is basically play around with the settings! Exploring is a part of experimenting and trust me if you're into editing, this is so much fun, and you could probably find your soul and style ;).

GOOD LUCK AND THANKS FOR READING! If you're satisfied with my tone, show me because it's exciting and I am very happy knowing people are using my tone to edit their pictures. I don't need you to credit me or what, but if you can show me your works (by emailing or tagging me on Instagram), that would be very nice of you guys :).

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VSCOCAM PHOTOSHOP TUTORIAL: HOW TO GET THE VSCO LOOK IN PHOTOSHOP!

In this tutorial, I am going to be showing you the easy and simple way to achieve that signature VSCO look on Photoshop as I received tons of requests to do this tutorial! Basically only three main steps that you need to follow and we're trying to achieve the T3 preset tone that would transform your photos like this:

Retro, faded and mild color.

Now let's start the eatandtreats three simple steps to create the VSCOcam look!

1. CURVES

First we're going to start off with the "curves" adjustment that you can find in ->

but make sure your base photo is good enough because that's the quintessential thing about photo editing.

You're going to see the "RGB" bar and first, we're going to do the adjustment to the "Red" curve, set the red line to look like this:

Now set the adjustment to the "Green" and set the position of the lines to look like this:

Moving on to the "Blue" adjustment, set the position of the lines to look like this:

Now set the adjustment back to "RBG" and set the curve to look like this:

2. HUE/SATURATION
Pretty satisfied of how the color looks after the "curve" adjustment but I found that certain areas are still a tad over-saturated so I want to tone everything to an equal balance by adjusting the hue and saturation, I set the hue on the "-1" and tone down the saturation to "-11".

3. EXPOSURE
Now this is like the golden gate to create that VSCO look, most VSCO presets have this faded feel that hit just right on the shadows and awesome at balancing the highlight, and I mostly use the "Exposure" adjustment to create the faded look. The reason why I prefer using "Exposure" instead of "Curves" for the editing is because if you want to apply this editing to another photo and wanting to do adjustments, it's easier to do it using the Exposure bar rather than curves. The "Offset" adjustment is where to adjust the shadow (the black area in a photo), the more you're setting the bar to the right, the more faded (nearly white) the photo will turn out. I like old looking faded pictures but less is more so I set the "Offset" to +0,0165 and the "Gamma" correction to 0,90 to add in a little contrast.

...and voila! The editing is pretty much done! Here's the before and after look.

I also apply this editing to these photos I found on the internet and I was quite satisfied with the result! I think this photo works best on backlight pictures, heavy blurred background pictures and top shot pictures with wood background :).

BEFORE

AFTER

Photo courtesy of Kinfolk.com

BEFORE

AFTER

Photo courtesy of Folies du Bonheur

BEFORE

AFTER

Photo courtesy of Kinfolk Table

Photo courtesy of blogparkerfitzgerald.com

Based on my experience dealing with colors and Photoshop, there will always be that one perfect tone for a photo, but one effect that works on a certain photo might not work with another photo, so the key is to practice practice practice and keep on experimenting with colors! I gotta admit I have been obsessing over Photoshop and colors.

Starting next week, I am going to be doing the eatandtreats Free Curve Sunday, the thing is, I am going to giveaway Photoshop curves (or tutorials) to enchance your pictures! I truly love to see people who have passion for Photography and I am more than pleased to help you in enhancing your pictures. I am creating some Photoshop actions (still developing them) and I am planning to sell it publicly in a few months. Crossed fingers that they'll come true soon <3.

I hope this tutorial helps! If you have any comments or questions, feel free to drop the comments below and don't forget to share this post <3.

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