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AUGUST 14, 2002 Creating an Aged Photograph in Photoshop
Don't change the opacity if you decide you don't like the way it looks. Instead, go to your Tool palette and select the Burn tool. Now draw over your new layer with the burn tool to reduce the effect of the striations over various parts of the image. (In the Tool Option palette above your canvas, make sure the Range is set to "Midtones." This will cause the burn tool to reduce some, but not all, of the vertical lines, leaving you with a nice, scratched effect that doesn't look too artificial.) 
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Stains are not difficult at all. There are, of course, several ways to create them. I'll show you two.
The first method works well for large stain areas. Simply use the freehand Marquis tool to select a semi-ovoid shape near the top or bottom or on the side of the main image layer. Then choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Gradient Map. Apply the default black to white gradient, and you have an instant light stain. The other method for smaller areas involved simply selecting a number of roughly circular shapes (on the main image layer) and using the Burn tool to burn the inside edges of the selections very lightly. 
Simple enough. Finally, we're going to add some wear to our photo edges. If you're going to be producing this image as a cabinet card (and actually mounting it on a card, digital or otherwise), you're not going to want to make any extreme wear on the edges because the photo is mounted, so most of the wear would affect the card rather than the photo paper itself. However, if you simply want to use this as an unmounted image, then more extreme edge wear would make sense. We'll take a look at a few options. Before you get started on this, you're going to want to be working on the edges on a merged image--in other words, an image with one layer. Otherwise, you're gong to have to create the edge effects as a mask over the entire image, which I don't want to do because I also want to use some filters. So save your current document, and then go to the History palette and click on the little icon at the bottom left. This will create a new document based on your current state. 
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