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AUGUST 14, 2002 Creating an Aged Photograph in Photoshop
Fading and degradation After you've applied your sepia tone, go to your Layers palette and click on the original background layer. (The rest of this process is destructive, so you might want to duplicate this layer in case you make a mistake and want to go back.) And now we'll begin the aging process on the photo. [an error occurred while processing this directive] We'll start with the fade, the most obvious sign of aging. We don't want to fade the image uniformly, of course, and we don't yet want to create a vignette effect. Rather, we're just going to fade the darker colors in the background. To do this, choose Select > Color Range, and then use the eyedropper tool in the dialog to select one of the darker areas in the background. Set the "Fuzziness" to something like 70 or 80 to allow some leakage into neighboring colors. 
After you click OK and go back to your image, choose the freehand Marquis tool. Hold down the option key, and use it to deselect portions that might have been selected on the subject's head and upper torso. (Holding down the Option key subtracts from the current selection.) Remember we want to keep a certain amount of crispness on the subject. 
Now choose Select > Feather, and set the feather to something like 50 pixels. 
Workflow tip: Once you've feathered the selection, save it for future use because, if you lose it, you won't be able to make the same selection again. So choose Select > Save Selection. If you accidentally deselect the image later, you can choose to reload it by selecting Select > Load Selection. Now to fade the image, select Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast. Adjust the brightness upwards until you're satisfied with the degree of fading. I adjusted mine 100 percent and then adjusted it again another 50 percent. 
Keeping your selection active, choose Filter > Texture > Grain. From the pull-down menu, choose a grain type of "Clumped, and set the intensity and contrast to 60 and 50, respectively. 
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