(Warning: attached file contains some images, showing violence and death people (a hanging scene and one image with corpses of soldiers of the civil war.)

Hello, I would like to ask if you could please help me to manipulate some of my own photos to let them look like vintage ones, done in the time of the civil war and still some years later.
there are two steps that have to be done:
1) convert the new digital image into an black and white one with that special look (is it the contrast, that makes that special b/w-look?)
2) make it look like disturbed or cracked, cut u and incomplete around the corners, a look, that must be the result of that old technique they have used for the photos at that time.

Is it possible to recreate that look for images, done with a digital camera today?
(I have added a example image of an "old west show" I did, that is one of the images I would like to manipulate)

thanks you for giving me some ideas!

Holger


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