Adobe Tutorial - Digital Tintype Photos

In this tutorial, I learned how to create a digital tintype photo. Usually, tintype photos are created with special equipment under certain conditions, but this tutorial shows how to achieve the same effects digitally.

Here is my Before image:

Steps involved:
1. Add a Hue/Saturation layer
2. In the Hue/Saturation menu, check the "Colorize" box, choose a hue you like, desaturate the image almost completely, and then use the Lightness slider to darken the image slightly.
3. Convert the base layer for Smart Filters
4. Select the Surface Blur effect, and change the Threshold to around 10. The goal of this step is to remove small details and make the image appear smoother.
5. Select the Motion Blur, set the Distance setting to around 4. Keep this effect to a minimum.
6. Add a Brightness/Contrast layer. Raise the Brightness to a setting you prefer (only a little) and adjust Contrast a great deal. The tutorial raises it to +74.
7. Go to Filter>Distort>Lens Correction. Pull the Vignette slider all the way to -100.
8. The last step consists of adding a texture to the image. The tutorial tells you that you can download this concrete image for the effect. Place the image over your original, and then the tutorial suggests selecting Overlay in the Blending Modes menu.

 And here is my After image!

Source: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tutorials-effects/digital-tintype-photos/

The images above were taken by me.