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Firstly, Hi everyone, I'm new here!

Secondly, I've found a guy who's photo's i'm in love with, this is a link to his flickr...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27284858@N03

How does he achieve that cloudy, old school sort of effect, can anyone help? I have Photoshop CS4 and rally want to try and get the same sort of feel in my photo's.

Thanks in advance, Lee!
 
I could be way off here and he may have used a built in preset but I would probably be looking at lowering any contrast within the picture, lowering clarity slightly, increase exposure a smidge, graduated filter with a little grain maybe. It's not something I go for really as it looks a little retro for me but these are the things I would be looking at. If you're using ps then I suppose try adding a layer mask with a very faint white to pink colour and then adjust transparency? I'm probably wrong and someone here I'm sure will say for sure but good luck in your quest
 
Subtle colour shifts using curves, and raising the toe of the curves so you don't get a true black... if you do subtly different adjustments on red, green and blue curves you can get these subtle shifts.
 
You can get this kind of effect in Photoshop (or Elements, or anything that can handle layers and blend modes) by adding a layer filled with a colour then lowering the opacity and possibly playing with the blend mode.
 
Thanks guys for your help, still struggling to get it but I'll keep trying! :)
 
If I were trying to get something like this I would look at pulling the highlights back and pushed the shadows up,

Then add a curve increasing pulling up the blacks with individual channels red,green, and blue then pulling the highlights down in the same way..try googling cross processing, although people often introduce a more pronounced colour shift with this method..

As gary said he could also have introduced a colour tint with a colour layer on a blend mode, a good trick for this is too grab a couple of pictures (with diff lighting/subjects) , then in PS go to blur > Average...this will give you a single colour that is the average of the whole image..if a few photo's have a same/similar cast, you can be that its been introduced..wether by curves/fill layers/on camera filter etc....

....Bonus Tip of the day is that inverting this layer (creating the opposite cast) and putting on a low opacity 5-10% is a good way of neutralising an unwanted colour cast in an image.

IT also looks as tho there is some extra blurring going possibly a tilt shift on low opacity or just gaussain and masked??

TBF this is pretty much what everyone before me has suggested, so at least most of us are thinking along the same lines :) and as others have suggested a preset might be a good place to start, although you would most likely have to do the blurring by had
 
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