Titus Soh - Need your critique on PS

[PrisonersDilema]

Hi

This is the first time I have done quite a bit of PS with Adobe Photoshop Elements trying to emulate an old B&W photo with blackened corners.

Need your critique on the burning, dodging, smudging, adding noise speckles etc. Does the photo seem overdone?

Your constructive comments would go a long way to help me in my PS skills. They are largely self-taught with a lot of experimenting. It's here because it's shot with the Epson Digital RF with the CV 15mm f4.5.

It's my first time. :o

Thanks.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1069/963644230_7e97ff6475_b.jpg

[-kk-]

they look a tad uneven to me, the vignetting effect looks a bit too drastic.

a MUCH simpler trick is to use the curves function and simply pull it to the right to add a vignetting effect.

[PrisonersDilema]

Thanks.

Finally installed my Adobe Photoshop CS2 so that I can use the curves and photofilter.

First sttempt was using the constraints of PS Elements.

Boy! CS2 is much better than Elements 2.0:bang: