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Web Site Creates Vintage Shots from Your Pics

by Thomas Houston on February 14, 2009 at 01:45 PM



Here at Switched, we're always on the look out for cool ways you can modify your pictures. A few months ago, we posted about a downloadable app that turns your photos into Polaroids, and now Unplggd has alerted us to this Japanese Web site that gives your photos a convincing vintage look.

Despite being written in a language indecipherable to most Switched readers, the Web site is easy to use. Click the 'browse' button, select the image you want to vintage-ify, and then click the big button beneath the browse field. Wait a moment, and BAM, you've got yourself a grainy, black-and-white vintage shot! That picture above? It was taken just a few weeks ago, and the site does a good job of approximating a decades-old photo. You'll see fake scratches and grain added, a conversion to black-and-white, and darkened, torn, and smudged edges.

As a test, we threw a couple images sitting around our harddrive at the site, and you can check out the results below.

Nearly Instant Vintage



[From: wanokoto via Unplggd ]

Tags: fun, photography, vintage

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