How do they do that?

[crysmer]

I've seen pictures that people take that have an aged, 70's look. How do they achieve it? It looks like they messed with the saturation but that's as much as I know. I've attached some sample pictures of what I'm trying to do.

[MrsBoesch]

Here's a tutorial I've gotten good use out of (even though I don't have Photoshop...I adapted it to the software I have)!

[Nicole]

What post-processing program do you use? There's a vintage action that I got from Flickr (I'm sure I can find the link again) that does something similar if you use photoshop.

[wannabehorsephotographer]

The first shot you attached has a texture applied. Take a picture of a rough wall or sidewalk, etc. Desaturate the texture image. Place it over the top of the image you want to post process with a layer blending mode set to screen or soft light, etc. (play around). You may even want to adjust the opacity.

Good question! I have been trying to figure out how to cross process in PS Elements.
Good luck figuring out how to get the effects you want,

[ditch_azeroth]

from the looks of it, there seems to be a opacitized texture layer (if that makes any sense). desaturation is not exactly how i would attack this problem, but it is more of cutting and boosting selective colors - a breeze to do in lightroom, but the layers have to be done in photoshop or gimp, or corel (if you are into that).