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93octane
1st of June 2008 (Sun), 14:49
I was checking out this photographers website and I really like how he photoshops his pictures. Does anyone know a similar way to achive this look??? Just scroll down, some pictures have a burnt look to them, others have sepia look and some are really rich in color but this have a faded look to them.

http://www.signaturecollections.blogspot.com/

amonline
1st of June 2008 (Sun), 19:33
The simple way to get the sepia-color is to dupe the layer, turn it to sepia and adjust the opacity. (dodge/burn to your desired liking)

The lower stuff is a texture techinique. There are plenty of tutorials on Google for that.

Other than that, he adds a vignette to everything. This can be easily done by setting your oval marquee to a feathered radius of around 200px (full res), selecting most of the image, reversing the selection and dropping the brightness to about -50%. (again, the easy way)

The more authentic looking vignette is done with a series of carefully controlled burns. Again, Google is your friend here. ;)

93octane
1st of June 2008 (Sun), 22:15
I don't mind doing a little reading and using google, exactly what am I searching for ???? texture techinique??? If you don't mind do you know the exact term for this techinique??

Thanks for the help...

amonline
1st of June 2008 (Sun), 23:28
photoshop, texture, vignette, actions, etc. There is no particular term really.