“Old Photo” effect from regular image
In this tutorial you will learn how to achieve “Old Photo” effect from regular image with Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 and above. You can see my final result here ยป
LEVEL: Intermediate
WHAT YOU HAVE TO KNOW: Fireworks basics like add/remove live effects, clone objects, adjust curves
SOURCE PNG: old-photo-source.png
Step 1 - Let`s begin - Open image
Step 2 - Add “Noise” live effect with this settings (Amount = 4; Color - unchecked)
Step 3 - Next add “Hue/Saturation” live effect and adjust settings (Hue = 35; Saturation = 18; Lightness = 0; colorize - checked)
Step 4 - Add “Curves” live effect and adjust curves on RGB channel like on the figure below
Step 5 - Add “Alien Skin Edges” live effect (Edge Width = 12; Margin = 0; Feature size = 14; Edge Mode = Torn Paper; Transparent Fill = checked)
Step 6 - Add “Inner Glow” live effect with this settings (Width = 2; Opacity = 30%; Softness = 14; Offset = 0; Color = #4A4134)
Step 7 - Add “Drop Shadow” live effect (Width = 2; Opacity = 51; Softness = 3; Angle = 315)
Step 8 - Clone object (Ctrl+Shift+D), remove all live effects, add “Alien Skin Marble” live effect (Vein Size = 12; Vein Coverage = 15%; Vein Thickness = 1; Vein Roughness = 27)
Step 9 - Add “Hue/Saturation” live effect and adjust it like this (Hue = 44; Saturation = 53; Lightness = 14; colorize - checked), set object opacity to 50% and blend mode to multiply
Step 10 - Clone object (Ctrl+Shift+D) and remove all live effects. Set object blend mode to Screen and opacity to 30%
Step 11 - add “Alien Skin Marble” live effect (Vein Size = 13; Vein Coverage = 100%; Vein Thickness = 0; Vein Roughness = 6)
Step 12 - add “Brightness/Contrast” live effect (brightness = -100; contrast = 50)
Last Step - and I think the most important - experiment ;-)
I hope you find this tutorial useful. This is my first attempt to write tutorial for Fireworks, so any comments, questions or suggestions are welcome. English is not my native language! I hope you point me to any errors I have. Stay tuned next will be better ;-)
Update - now you can download source png and study ahead.
