Colorizing photos for a vintage look

Vintage looks in photography have been very popular lately; the huge rise in Instagram and other photo filter apps is making it more and more popular. There are many different types of vintage looks you can edit your photo with, but in this chapter we will talk about how to colorize your images to give them a vintage look.

Before we begin to change color levels in Pixelmator, there are eight predefined vintage presets that do have a very nice look to them. The Vintage set of filters can be found in the Effects panel under the Stylize section. When you choose the vintage effect, a screen with more options will appear that gives you the ability to select one of the eight effects and adjust the saturation and ...

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