Make one bitmap have same "look and feel" as another

Hello community.
First time I am coming across this problem for a client.
He wants an old photograph (b/w, scanned) to be the "blueprint" for another one, which he just made with his digicam. The latter is of course quite different in lighting etc., but that's not what I am really worried about as I have the raw file so I can play around.
But is there a reasonably quick way to have that new digicam image have the same "look and feel" of that old, scanned image? I cannot post the image I am talking about (copyright issue), but if I had to make a new digicam image have the same "look and feel" of, say, such a picutre - what would I have to do?
Hints to simple techniques will do, because the pay for this job is close to lousy... :-(
Thanks all.
- creedless -
equipped with a MacBook Pro and Photoshop CS4 Extended

Download a "grunge" or "old photo" pic from stock xchange and put it on top of the photo in overlay or soft light mode. You can adjust the grunge layer with levels to make it a more neutral layer for blending. Use the dodge and burn tools to draw smudges on the photo, particularly lightening or darkening the edges of the photo. You can also use the blur brush to soften the image, except for around the face.
See tutorials:
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/photoshop/articles/phs8kbfilmgrain.html
http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/photo-effects/natural-film-grain.html
http://www.photoshoptalent.com/photoshop-tutorials/old-looking-photos.php
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/old-photo/

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import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.multi.*;
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   private Color foreground;
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import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
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