How Do You Make an Old TV Effect in Photoshop?

In this Photoshop tutorial, we'll learn how to give a photo the appearance of being displayed on an old television screen. This effect is perfect for recreating the look of an old family photo or a vintage film still.We'll start by adding scanlines to the image, then we'll add a curved TV screen border, and finally we'll add a little bit of noise to give the image an overall vintage look. Even if you've never worked with Photoshop before, I think you'll be surprised at how easy it is to create this effect.

Here's a before and after look at the image I'll be using for this tutorial:

And here are the steps needed to create this effect:

1. Add scanlines to the image.

The first thing we need to do is add some scanlines to the image. This will help sell the effect that the image is being displayed on an old TV screen. To do this, we'll use Photoshop's built-in noise filter.

First, make sure your foreground and background colors are set to their defaults by pressing D on your keyboard. Then go up to the Filter menu in the Menu Bar, choose Noise, and then choose Add Noise. This brings up Photoshop's Add Noise dialog box.

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