[DogEater]

Your effects are much moire realistic than mines. Great job! In fact this was my first try to create an "old" photo . What else should I do to achieve a realistic look?

Well, first of all you have nice resolution (i've saw some old photos, part of them look sharp, even if size of photo is small).
Next thing - is to use photo filters. Filters used in b/w photos to concentrate to some parts - clouds, sky, or items. I'm temporary convert image to CMYK color space and reduce yellow color. Or remain in RGB color space and reduce Red color or Blue color. Or, if you using Photoshop, you can use embedded color filters. Question about color filter is quate complex, but for our need it will be enough.
Next step is Brightness & Contrast. Easyest way is to degrease brightnes by 15 percent and increase Contrast to 15-20 percent. Some small dark parts of image will disappear, picture will be overbrighten, and look will be more realistic. (There was no cheap automatic Kodak or Polaroid).
Next step is scratches and spots. For scratches i'm using black layer with white scratches, at about 55 percent of opacity and overlay type "screen". For spots i'm using another layer(i've got it from inet) with 5 percent opacity and overlay type "Linear light". Percent of opacity have to be changed from image to image.
Next is photo paper. Main image has less canvas size than all paper. I used colorised layer with color picked up from main image where region is almost white. If you have nice paper (or wrinkled paper) texture you may also use it for more realism.
Important thing is to use "Color dodge" tool for image borders(and specially corners), to make them lighter and less sharp. Oh, if you like, you can also use blur (or motion blur) filter, but using them is strongly individual.
Final cut is to make image color: use actions, default actions, sepia toning to get nice old yellow like look. Or you can use actions for color (technicolor - like), 2-strip or 3-strip.
I won't tell you about some words, written on the photo, you are already knows this. :wink: