Age Your Photographs

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://photojojo.com/content/websites/age-photos/' target='_blank'>http://photojojo.com/content/websites/age-photos/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>&quot;The Japanese have gotten hold of a time machine. We knew it would happen sooner or later. The weird thing is, this time machine only works on photographs. You feed it a sharp modern photo, and it comes back to you looking like it was taken sixty years ago. Maybe it came from The Future! Or Outer Space! Or the Underground Lair of the Mole People (yikes)! We don&rsquo;t know because, well, we can&rsquo;t read Japanese. All we know is, if you click &ldquo;browse&rdquo;, upload a photo, and then click on the blue button in the middle, the time machine magically oldifies your picture. It might also summon an army of cranky Mole People, we&rsquo;re not sure.&quot;</em></p><p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//dht/auto/1209468514.usr14.gif" /></p><p>You can look at a lot more pictures <a href="http://labs.wanokoto.jp/olds">here</a>, though the site is a bit slow (and in Japanese). But a cool photo editing result. I don't know how often I would use this though. I remember being totally excited the first time I discovered Sepia where I could give photographs that 60's or 70's feel but after the novelty wore off, I never used it again. So I wonder why I would want to make photographs look even older?</p>

[NoYouAre]

I would prefer using Adobe's Photoshop when needing to age a photo, because of its flexibility. Reason why is because in that program(?) the same overlay of texture is used in every image. (Top right corner and the center sweep for an easy reference.) Aged photo's are anything but similar to each other.

For the practical user that is just wanting a quick result and isn't interested in some-what of a learning curve I can see how something like this would be beneficial to them.