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Our image was taken at Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswold's using the Nikon Coolpix 990. Using the cottages and the old car it would be nice to give our image an old worldy look to it.

To remove any distractions from our image we call up the layers pallet Window >Show Layers or press F7 on the keyboard and create a New Empty layer by clicking on the New Layer Icon. Tip…holding down the Alt key while clicking the tab will enable us to rename our layer as we are adding it.(fig 1)

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Select our Cloning tool or Rubber stamp(short cut S) from our tool box. Double clicking on the cloning tool brings up the Rubber Stamp Options box. Make sure we tick the 'Use all Layers and Aligned' this will enable us to use the clone tool on our new layer. (fig 2) One of the benefits of cloning onto a new empty layer is that it does not increase our file size.(fig 3).

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At this stage we could flatten our image, or if we choose to continue working in layers create a New Empty layer above our cloning layer. Under the layers palette select Merge Visible from the menu and hold down our Alt key. This will copy all our visible layers into one new layer (fig4)

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We now duplicate our new layer by dragging it over the centre icon of our layers palette and from the menu bar choose Filter > Stylize > Find Edges (fig5). To add a sepia tone to our find edges - click on Image > Adjust Hue/Saturation or shortcut Ctrl U. Tick the colorize box and set the Hue slider to 25 and the Saturation to around 30.(fig6)

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In our layer palette choose Soft Lights from the Blend Mode. Try experimenting with the Opacity, but for our image 100% was used (fig7). From the top corner of our layers palette select New Adjustment layer option . We can choose from a variety of options for our image, Brightness /Contrast was set to -3 and +7 and the Hue/Saturation -3 and +11. The big advantage in using Adjustment layers is that they can be saved (as a PSD). Later simply by clicking on these layers we can make further adjustments or even delete the adjustment layer altogether (fig8).

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Our layers can once again be combined using the Alt + Merge Visible to a new layer (fig 9). Try adding some texture Filter > Texture > Texturizer and select C >Programme File >Adobe > Photoshop > Goodies >Textures and choose Bumpy Leather to finish our image off. Our new image can now be saved.

The finished image

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