Evening, how can I achieve a Retro effect like this, using PS.

[lukathat]

Hello everyone, and nice to meet you, I was wondering what can I do to make my pictures look more like this. It's kinda dirty and not that high definition. Thanks in advance.

 

[IamSam]

Are you referring to photos after they have been taken or before they have been taken with in camera effects?

 

[lukathat]

I was wondering about both, but I couldn’t really find the right path in the forum so i posted here. The photography part is really not that important, my tools are now only an Iphone 7 a photography app and grit ahah. So i was really focusing on post production, the effects to give that retro look.

 

[Eggy]

I'm still not sure what you want but you could have a look here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=photoshop+retro+look

To achieve a 'retro' effect you can use the free Google NIK filters: https://www.google.com/nikcollection/

and follow these steps









to get



Of course this is a preset but you can achieve this effect manually.

 

[lukathat]

Yes! That’s awesome! And could you tell me how to achieve that kinda “faded” look, pictures from 70s and 80s are not as sharp and the ones from today. Is there any way I can “downgrade” the quality, or get a little “out of focus” I’m sorry if I don’t use the right terms, it’s just that I don’t know them.

 

[Eggy]

Manually you can add some grain (filter gallery-grain), blur by 0,5 px (depending on the picture) add a 'foggy night' adjustment layer but have a look at the link I provided, there's a lot of variation you can apply.

But the NIK filters are free and easy to tweak.

 

[lukathat]

Thank you kindly

 

[Eggy]

Glad I could help.