Two New Tools

     There are a multitude of photoshop tutorials on the internet showing various techniques, but most of them are very specific- too specific. One tutorial I found breaks from that pattern and proves to be especially useful in multiple ways.
     This tutorial in particular described how one might make a picture appear to be a film photograph while also showing one of the most fundamental aspects of photoshop: the filter.
     The picture I started with was a color photograph- but I soon made it into a film grained image with selective color.

     Immediately, I set the saturation to zero to make it black and white, and then began following the tutorial. It first explained how to use a filter in combination with a layer- in a method it called "non-destructive editing". Soon I had created a film style image, but I wanted to try one more thing.

      I wanted to give a close-up to exhibit the grain, it's really remarkable how much it looks like film.

     Finally I decided to do something on my own- selectively color a piece of the image. I used the magnetic lasso to select a piece of my filter layer and then deleted it, leaving that piece of the background unfiltered. This created a sort of selective color effect.