After being asked to make “3 or 4 versions to choose from” for the history of aprons poster, I decided to turn the Aged Photo Tutorial I found into an action. I posted it to download here for all my followers.

Hint: use a black brush on the Grain layer’s maskto brush away some of the vertical lines.

Did you know you can increase or decrease brush sizes using the bracket keys?

Open bracket ( [ ) decreases brush size, while close bracket ( ] ) increases. Add the Shift key as a modifier to adjust the brush hardness.

You can also cycle through brushes using the greater than/less than keys (< >). Use the Shift key with this shortcut to jump to the first brush or last brush on your list.

Download the source file for this video and some extra tileable patterns here. I’d love to see some of your stuff that you come up with, send me a link.