{"id":5226,"date":"2008-05-06T09:14:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T07:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-add-a-sepia-old-photo-effect-in-photoshop\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:31:33","slug":"how-to-add-a-sepia-old-photo-effect-in-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-add-a-sepia-old-photo-effect-in-photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add a sepia old-photo effect in Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old photos have an appealing kind of charm that the perfection of digital photography sometimes can&#8217;t achieve. But I know a trick to give your digital pics an aging touch that makes them look even more attractive. Simply follow these easy steps in Photoshop and turn your digital images into old photos with a sepia tone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> First of all, open the photo you want to make look older.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/sepia01.jpg\" alt=\"add a sepia old photo effect in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Then convert it to grayscale by selecting the <em>Image &gt; Mode &gt; Grayscale<\/em> menu and clicking &#8220;Yes&#8221; on the dialog box that Photoshop will display.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/sepia02.jpg\" alt=\"add a sepia old photo effect in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Go again to the same menu and convert the photo back to RGB. We need this step in order to be able to add a color filter in the next one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/sepia03.jpg\" alt=\"add a sepia old photo effect in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> Now go to <em>Image &gt; Adjustments &gt; Photo Filter<\/em> and select the Sepia option. Move the slider until you reach a sepia tone you like (in this case, 85% was fine for me). Make sure the the &#8220;<em>Preserve Luminosity<\/em>&#8221; option is checked and press OK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/sepia04.jpg\" alt=\"add a sepia old photo effect in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Our old picture is almost one! We&#8217;ll go to <em>Filter &gt; Blur &gt; Gaussian Blur<\/em> add a touch of blur to make the image less sharpened&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/sepia05.jpg\" alt=\"add a sepia old photo effect in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> &#8230;and then to <em>Layer &gt; Layer Style &gt; Stroke<\/em> to add a white border and make it more similar to an old photo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/sepia06.jpg\" alt=\"add a sepia old photo effect in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> <em>Voil\u00e0<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/05\/sepia-final.png\" alt=\"add a sepia old photo effect in Photoshop\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old photos have an appealing kind of charm that the perfection of digital photography sometimes can&#8217;t achieve. But I know a trick to give your digital pics an aging touch that makes them look even more attractive. Simply follow these easy steps in Photoshop and turn your digital images into old photos with a sepia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-add-a-sepia-old-photo-effect-in-photoshop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to add a sepia old-photo effect in Photoshop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336149,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions\/336149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}