How to "ANTIQUE" Photographs Using Microsoft PhotoDraw

Halloween season is fast approaching and, as an avid home haunter, I am at work on my newest projects.  This year I was looking to make a series of vintage looking photographs, or "antiqued" if you will.  I had edited similar pictures like this "in the past" (no pun intended), but I needed to create a standard by which to make an entire series or to go back to for future images.  After searching online for a plug-in or instructions, what little help I found was not as thorough as I needed.  I found some ATN files made for Adobe Photoshop that will create similar effects, but I am currently using PhotoDraw.  So, as necessity is the mother of invention; I took what information I had compiled, expanded upon it, and wrote my own instructions.  That being said, I thought it might be a good idea to add some graphics and put it all together in an instructable to help anyone else who might have had my same dilemma.

Step 1: Open the photo you wish to edit in PhotoDraw

Select the photo you wish to edit and open it in PhotoDraw.  I find it easiest to just right-click the image and select [Edit in PhotoDraw].  Although, you can also navigate to your photo through the open functions under PhotoDraw's [File] menu.

*Note:  At this point you can just edit the photo, save it as a new selection, and elect to not save changes to the original when you close it.  However, just to be safe, follow my instructions and make a copy of the photo before you edit it.  Then, close the original right away before making edits to the copy.