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 »
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.