Make any picture look like it was once in an old newspaper

Old newspapers have a very distinct look. The photos are always black and white, over saturated and very bad looking all around. No matter how bad they look, the look is novel and I wanted to see if I could do it. So here goes

Prep

Since this is a longer tutorial- I'm gonna rush the easy stuff.

1. Make a new file 500px X 500px

2. Put and old paper pattern on the background layer
(if you have problems with this part try my "Editing antique ads tutorial" 1st

3. Find a picture you want to place effect on. Then copy and paste it on layer 2

4. My result

This is what I have after the 1st 3 steps My result

5. Desaturate your photo

click on "Image > Adjustment > Desaturate" or "shift+CTL+ U"

6.Change blending mode on layer 2 to Multiply

This basically substitues white to your background color which in our case is the newspaper pattern

7. Brightness/Contrast

a. Goto "Image > Adjustment > Brightness/Contrast"
I used -5 and +56 to take out some of the gray areas and make the picture look like it had been printed on an older printer

8. Filter: Film Grain

Goto "Filter > Artistic > Film Grain"
My settings were " Grain: 8, Highlight: 1, Intensity: 4

At this point you should have a pretty good looking pic. From here you can do a few things.

Outcome 1: My Personal Fav

Jagged Border and Flaws

Use a brush to add flaws to the photo. Make sure to use a palette that has smudges and ink spatters in it to define the flaws. If you don't have a set of brushes like that you can download some in my Resource section

Here is my finished product.

I put marker brush strokes around the entire pic, to add a jagged edge.

I added smudges to the paper to give it a little old used paper look

Finished

Outcome 2:

Half tone pattern and flaws

Use a marker brush to add a jaggedness to the border of your pic (I did this on another layer). Once this is complete use a halftone filter over everything but the smudges and newspaper background. It should look like this. However you need to make sure that your color are Black/Brown cuz otherwise your pattern will look jacked up. Here's the break down and the result