Forum: Photoshop


Subject: Old/antique cracks effect

shareone opened this issue on Jul 14, 2007 ยท 31 posts


Quest posted Thu, 23 August 2007 at 10:54 AM

I'm using Photoshop 7.1, give this a try:

1-Open your image

2-Press "D" to set your default colors to black and white

3-Open a new layer above your background-base image and fill the new layer with white and set layer mode to Multiply

4-Go Filter-->Pixelate-->Mezzotint make sure "long strokes" is set and apply this about 8 times (Ctrl+F to repeat the filter)

5-Go Image-->Rotate Canvas-->90* CW

6-Press Ctrl+F to continue applying the Mezzotint filter this time across the opposite axis of the image.

7-Go Image-->Rotate Canvas-->90* CCW turn off Mezzotint layer visibility

8-Open a new layer above your Mezzotint layer and set this layer's mode to Multiply

9-Go Filter-->Render-->Clouds

10-Go Filter-->Render-->Difference Clouds

11-Go Image-->Adjustments-->Equalize

12-Go Image-->Adjustments-->Threshold enter 4