Following on from last week’s post, I took a drive up to the beautiful Sunshine Coast Hinterland over the weekend and scoured out some photography subjects. I ended up looking at things I normally wouldn’t and came up with a few interesting images.
I’ve also had some fun editing them in Photoshop. I’ll take you through a few of them today, and continue on next week with a few others.
Here is the original image:

Now for the Photoshopped image. To achieve this you follow these steps: Image > Adjustments > Channel Mixer > Monochrome; then, Filter > Texture > Grain. Intensity = 30, and Contrast = 50.

Chinese warrior sculptures always look so solemn and intimidating. I wanted to amplify this, and black and white with a grain applied seemed the right way to achieve it.
Now, the next one isn’t quite as dramatic. Looking at the images side by side you can see that there is a difference, but you might not really have noticed the photoshopped image if you hadn’t seen the original…


It is subtle, but you can see that the craquelure effect in Photoshop makes the image a little grainer. The Grain effect made too much of a difference, and I wanted it to be subtle.
To achieve this, you go to the Filter menu, then select Texture, then Craquelure.
Have a play with the filter effects in Photoshop - it’s amazing what you can do.