Why hello there boys and girls, I hope everyone has been behaving themselves seeing as it's been MONTHS since I've been able to sit down and throw together a tutorial for you.  I apologize for the huge absence, but as most of you probably know, I have been going through some fairly massive life-changes so things have been a wee bit hectic.  BUT I am happy to say that things are calming down and my work routine should be coming back to normal.  With that said, here's a small tutorial I wrote today based on a request from one of my Facebook friends asking about a photo I posted from my recent trip to Cuba.

If you've never been to Cuba or seen photos from other friends and whatnot, Cuba is basically frozen in time with LOADS of items such as cars, furniture, tools and much more from the 40s, 50s and 60s.  In fact, you will see perhaps 4 cars from the 1950s for each car you see manufactured in the last 10 years or so... needless to say, this is heaven for a classic car lover like me!  While walking around one of the markets, my girlfriend snapped a shot of me standing next to a 1955 Chevy and we both noticed that this pic could easily be an original black and white from the 50s.  So, I promised her I would make it look like an old photo for our album and I posted it on FB for my friends to check out.  Here's how I did it in about 5 minutes.

Here's the original photo we're going to start with:

And here's what we're going to end up with at the end of the tutorial:

Ready to rock?  Flip to the next page and we'll get started on our 1950s photo conversion!