LINK TO ORIGINAL TUTORIAL

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Heres our final result

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Lets begin:

EDITING THE PICTURE

[1]We are going to increase the overall contrast of the picture by burning it a bit. Go to IMAGE > ADJUSTMENTS > LEVELS…With this image we are going to set the INPUT LEVELS to 60 / 1.00 / 220. But this is only for this example. Choose the best settings for each photo.

[2]We are going to give the photo an illustrated look with some graininess to give the illusion of an old and bad quality paper. It is not a realistic effect, it is just some distortion to the image to help us achieve the final look. Go to  FILTERS > ARTISTIC > FILM GRAIN. In this case we are going to use:  GRAIN: 4, HIGHLIGHT AREA: 0, INTENSITY: 10. TTry different settings for different photos.

Duplicate the layer.

[3] We are going apply a halftone pattern to the image to give the final old comic book printing effect. Go to FILTER > PIXELATE > COLOR HALFTONE. Set MAX RADIUS: 4 and leave the rest with the default values. Press OK and then go to the LAYERS PALETTE and set the BLENDING MODE  to  DARKEN.

Adding comic book elements to the picture

The effect looks nice so far. It is not a realistic old comic book effect, it simple resembles that look. To make it more real, now comes the fun part. We are going to add some unique elements that are very popular on comic books and strips
Select the HALFTONE layer and set a STROKE LAYER STYLE of WIDTH: 20px, POSITION: Inside and COLOR: #F5ECE1.

Add a new layer and draw a small rectangle at the top left of the frame of the image. Give it a STROKE of 3 pixels and paint it orange. An orange to yellow gradient looks better. Draw another rectangle, a bit larger this time, on the lower left corner of the frame. Give it a STROKE of 3 pixels and paint it white. The final result should be like the one below:

ets add a border to the image: Add a new empty layer above the layer containing the rectangles we created in the previous step. Select the RECTANGLE SELECTION TOOL from the TOOLS PALETTE. Draw a selection from the top left (right inside the frame) to the bottom right border of the image.

Go to EDIT > STROKE, set WIDTH: 4px, COLOR: BLACK, LOCATION CENTER and press OK.

DESELECT the current selection and go to FILTER > BLUR > BLUR MORE. Then apply a small distortion using FILTER > DISTORT > RIPPLE… (Amount 20%, Size Medium). Now, lets sharpen the stroke a bit with FILTER > SHARPEN MORE and there you have a nice simulated hand drawn border.

Put in your text and...

Done!
 

Phew, I think 2 tutorials for today is enough...more to come later...

At the moment the images do not show. Thanks for your input though. Can't really say anything about the quality of the tutorial as you might understand.

Please include images with tutorials, makes learning easier. Thank you  

Do they show now?

I do not see them

I went into your post and fixed the image links. It makes me wonder if you have made this tutorial yourself though. You're linking directly to this website.

nope its not mine But I thought it was good, so i put it here.

The pics don't show on my pc now

Strange.. they do show on my computer. Hmm.. about tutorials that are not yours, you are not able to just copy them and put them up here. All tutorials here are hand written by the users themselves. Your tutorial topics will be moved to the Graphic Novice Center. Would you mind putting a link to the original tutorial in the first post on forehand please?

okii.