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Creating a faded effect

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Creating a faded effect

I really like how the black and white conversion that I've applied to this image, along with a little bit of a color tint, have enhanced the sort of aged appearance, this older look for the photo. I think it really suits the subject quite nicely. But I'd like to take that a step further and sort of fade the image a little bit. Essentially brighten it and maybe lighten the edges, just giving it a little bit of a, sort of faded photographic print type of a look. I'm going to start off by applying a curves adjustment to try to achieve that goal. So I'll go to the bottom of the Layers panel, and click the Add Adjustment Layer button, and then choose Curves from the popup menu that appears. I'm going to drag the curve upward. I'm going to focus that adjustment toward the brighter side of the curve. So, over to the right of the middle gray bar, for example. And I just want to brighten up the overall photo. You can see this gives us a little bit of a faded type of effect. I want to make sure…

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