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The act of taking contemporary photos (digital or scanned film) and tweaking them with post-processing to appear old, aged, vintage or antique.
Adherents to this practice: "antweakers"
May also spelled: antwiquing.
"Dude, I didn't know iPods were around in the 1890s!"
"Bro, they probably weren't. Like, dig the texture and the siiiick gaussian blur along the trim. Somebody's been antweaking that shit."
The act where people buy what they think is a valuable antique, find out it is worthless, then try to make it look valuable, usually involving copper and stain.
I went to the antique shop yesterday and bought this old looking dresser. I found out it was worthless so I was antweaking it with stain and sold it for $60.