Vintage style can be applied to a new photograph in a number of ways. Any short search on the Internet will bring up numerous photoshop tutorials on how to do this, and these are good to watch to start to understand what options are open to you. Generally speaking you will require some kind of photo-editing software to do this, although you should always remember that there is the old favorite of taking a print and dipping it in weak tea for a short while and allowing it to dry. The simplest way to make photographs look older is to use the adjustment on photoshop for black and white and then choose sepia tones, you can then play around with them until you are happy with the color. If you want something a little more sophisticated than this and little time to learn to do it then there are a number of free actions available on the internet. Actions are basically recorded activities on photoshop that either someone else has done, or that you have recorded yourself. Some of these actions which will give a vintage look. A good example of an action that I found free on a website and found very good for vintage work is Aly’s Vintage. It basically does some de-saturation of colours and some other contrast adjustments, it is a really good useful action which will do all the photoshop moves for you, you just need to load it into photoshop. However, if you want to do it yourself you can take your sepia print, and then make a duplicate layer (these mean if you make a mistake you can erase them and go back to the state of the picture prior to this) and you can use the burn tool at about 20% to eat away at the edge of the picture to create a burnt out look as with old photographs until it turns white at the edges. You can do this to provide a vignette style too, so typical of old photographs. Finally, you can go to the filter section of photoshop, and add a filter of dust and scratches, it will always put the filter on at 100%, but if you go to the adjustments section and choose fade, it will then let you choose how much of the filter you want to apply in percent, and also let you choose hard light (which sharpens), soft light (which would be good for vintage). normal or a number of other types of effect. You can also increase noise in the same area of the filters to the picture to add to that distressed vintage look, and basically do all the things you would avoid normally when editing a new photograph in order to degrade the image a little.
