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AUGUST 14, 2002 Creating an Aged Photograph in Photoshop
When you're done, if you think there's too much grain showing, you can choose Edit > Fade Grain (Shift-Command-F), and then either reduce the opacity or choose the Overlay apply mode. 
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So now we have the sepia tint, the fade and the grain, which is a fairly decent approximation of the fading effect seen on cabinet cards. But we still want to batter this photo a little bit more.
Scratches, stains and edge wear So now we want to rough the image up a little bit. The simplest way is to add vertical striations, similar to those seen in old movies. We don't want to be too heavy-handed with this effect, so here's a simple way to do it with some subtlety. First, select about a third of your image using the rectangular Marquis tool. Copy your selection, and then paste it. Now Command-click on your new layer in the Layers palette to select its contents. 
Now choose Filter > Texture > Grain. From the pull-down menu, select "Vertical." Set the intensity and contrast to something like what you see below. 
Not very subtle. So what we're going to do is change the blending mode of our new layer. In your Layers palette, go to the blending mode pull-down menu and change it from Normal" to "Lighten." 
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