Playing with photoshop

One of my goals this year is to get better with processing of my images in Photoshop.  So today with the snow coming down and too cold a weather to venture out, I played with two images from a recent stop.  The images were taken last week while returning from Pierre to Spearfish.  Because I had to make a stop in Rapid City, I took the cut off on Highway 34 through the little town of Cottonwood.  Not much remains, but its been a few years since I have been by there and the dwindling afternoon light drew me to try and capture a couple of the buildings left in town.  These included the church and the elevators.  Because the original images didn't seem as dramatic as I would like, I thought these would be fun to play with.  Here are the results.

Here are the elevators with a light brown paper texture.  I also used the orton processing technique to slightly blur the image and give it more pop.

Here is a texturized version of the church as well as using a crosshatch brush

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