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Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:25 pm   Reply with quote         


My daughter has to make a Wanted Poster for a class project. Is there a method to age a poster so it looks old? If anybody has any ideas or has done this we need help. It's due by Friday. Thanks




ScionShade

Location: VeniceFlaUS

Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:27 pm   Reply with quote         


Burn the edges is one. Use a heat gun to yellow it, be careful not to set on fire...you can hold it above the stove, be careful. maybe toss it in the oven.




ScionShade

Location: VeniceFlaUS

Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:28 pm   Reply with quote         


Spray a strong tea solution from a spray bottle, dry with a hairdryer




Oscar

Location: Northern California

Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:30 pm   Reply with quote         


Do you mean using photoshop or regular paper?
Laughing if its regular paper then I got no clue.




kinetic_be

Location: Belgium

Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:34 pm   Reply with quote         


coffee or Red wine does the job aswell I read somewhere.
With photoshop, i'm not sure..

Make a layer and fill it with a yellow-brownish colour and add a new layer to it which I fill with clouds and to the cloud-layer I apply linear-dodge (blending options) so the clouds get the colour of the layer underneath. Then start playing with the blending and andvanced blending options, apply some extra burn with brushes and making little cracks in the edges helps too.
Just tried it, the result is so-so, but it could work I guess.




splodge

Location: Yorkshire,

Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:40 pm   Reply with quote         






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kinetic_be

Location: Belgium

Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:54 pm   Reply with quote         


oh, very nice tut!
Thanks Splodge




Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:00 pm   Reply with quote         


it's not a photoshop deal it's real poster board stock cardboard
does that help clarify better.. and thanks again for any suggestions. I think should do a test drive before we work on the real poster.




kinetic_be

Location: Belgium

Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:31 pm   Reply with quote         


manic_d wrote:
it's not a photoshop deal it's real poster board stock cardboard
does that help clarify better.. and thanks again for any suggestions. I think should do a test drive before we work on the real poster.


In that case, you might find this helpfull manic_d

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Paper-Look-Old




NOGOODSK8RPUNK

Location: hum let me think, oh i know, if you look real hard i sometimes appear in your forum's text box

Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:42 pm   Reply with quote         


do you remember when you were a little kid making projects out of paper bags and crumpling up the paper and then flattening it? try that and i like scions idea of burning the edges hope that helps jen Wink




Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:53 pm   Reply with quote         


I appreciate all these wonderful ideas! W'eve got the tea bags boilng now. I'll let you guys know how this project comes out! Thanks Very Happy




dewking

Location: Pembroke, MA

Post Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:24 pm   Reply with quote         


Ive dyed a shirt this way too.. just soaking it in Tea (minus the fire) Wink

Nice aged effect that I used for a character at the haunted attraction I work at.




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annajon

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Post Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:37 am   Reply with quote         


I used to totally soak the paper with water and then poor coffee over it untill it started to get a colour. Then, after a bit of drying, I used to put stains on it, splashes of coffee (or water with watercolour brown) and you could even try to place a cup on a corner. ruffle the edges a little. If they have to look way old, then you can colour the edges with the splash coffee (watercolour brown) after ruffling them.

(did that come out like English?) That's how we used to create old treasure maps.




yello_piggy

Location: Vienna/Austria/Europe

Post Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:41 am   Reply with quote         


fold and unfold it several times, and all the rest above




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Location: Back where I belong.

Post Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:36 am   Reply with quote         


I see you already found out about tea. Cheaper the tea the better I've found.

Also I'd age some paper and then paste/glue it to the posterboard. Posterboard is pretty thick. Might not age too well.




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