since vintage-esque photos are the trend nowadays and personally i love the retro-ish feel, i started looking for tutorials on how to achieve the oldies effect.
and -voila!- i found an easier way to do it!--PHOTOSHOP ACTIONS! (sorry. some of you may be familiar with this already but its a BIG discovery for me )

here's one of the many i downloaded:



experimenting:




there are hundreds of actions similar to this in deviantART! each one giving off a different edge to an otherwise dull and uninteresting phto.
this one gets

i actually wanted to post this yesterday pa. kea lng i think ther's smthng wrng with PSAF then. and, oh, did i post at the wrng thread? im not sure. in devART it's categorized as resource kc.