Creating vintage looking flags for your albums

I like to add flags and other relevant bit and pieces to my album pages. I want a "vintage" look, so that pose a problem with modern flags from wikipedia etc.

Here is my approach of "vintage style" DIY. I hope you'll find it interesting 

Note: You can also create vintage photos out of modern images. If people are interested, let me know - then I'll create a separate how-to thread for that.

I use Pixelmator software. But I guess any image editing software with layering capabilities can be used.

So, let's begin.
Grap your flag, let's use Stars & Stripes in this tutorial:



Vintage images were less detailed. To de-focus, use "Gaussian Blur" effect, with 1-2 pixel setting:



Add a bit of noise. Here I use 5% monochrome setting:



Next is colouring. I adjust with a Sepia tone, 30%:



The final step is applying a vintage texture. I use this:
tutorials-cdn.pixelmator.com/vintage-effect2/Old%20Paper%20Texture.jpg

Simply drag-and-drop it to your composition. The texture will appear as a new layer.
Change the texture layer’s Blending to Multiply, since the Multiply blending mode darkens and tones down the color of an image.
Also reduce Opacity a bit to get a perfect texture blend with your image. Here I use 80% opacity:



This is it. Now you have a vintage looking flag for your albums