In this Photoshop photo effects tutorial, we’re going to look at how to give a photo a gritty, overprocessed look to it with extreme levels of contrast and sharpening, noise and washed out colors. Part of the effect will be created with a technique normally used as an advanced way of sharpening an image, but in this case, we’ll be taking things well beyond the boundaries of common sense. This is the sort of thing that would probably get you fired if you were supposed to be doing serious photo editing and retouching work, but I’ve seen this photo effect used time and time again in advertising, and while the final result looks rather harsh, Photoshop makes creating the effect quick and painless, as we’ll see!

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With any tutorial, it is important for you to be able to grasp the work-flow to create the image at hand. It is more important to me, however, that you grasp the work-flow so that you can create your own unique work. As with every tutorial, basic Photoshop knowledge is assumed.

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The idea behind this work was to create a fantasy world. You will learn how to work with a few images and create a really interesting photo manipulation.

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Duplicate the layer.
Select the upper layer, and go to Hues / Saturation and reduce the colours of the upper layer fully.

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With anything in Photoshop, there’s several different ways to achieve an end result.  In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through the technique I use to create smoke in images.  There are other ways to create an effect similar to this, I just happen to think this is the best way.

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Take the picture of planet Earth as new layer.

Draw some shapes to makes cracks.

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Ever wanted to make one of your favorite pictures into an old time photo? This tutorial will show you how to merge a few images, to create an aged tin photo.

Sepia tone, a slightly browned looking photo, is a great way to “age” any picture. I am actually working with a couple examples, so I kind of know where I am headed with the coloration on the picture, and eventually the end style.

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