Create retro effects

Age your digital photos with retro borders, light leaks, colour shifts and soft corners

Retro effects are very much in vogue at the moment. It seems that, with modern cameras offering us crystal-clear picture quality, the appeal of analogue imperfections have gone through the roof. Those little errors can make pictures seem so much more individual. There are lots of ways to give your images an aged look in Photoshop Elements, and while it takes a little longer than it does with instant smartphone apps, the results are far more unique. In this tutorial we'll show you how to rough up a brand new image by adding a grubby border and dirty texture. We'll also mimic the effects of a light leak by adding orange colouring, giving the impression that light has seeped through the gaps in a cheap camera body to fog the…

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