Edit: 162

This is not my photograph, it is an edit as requested in the Helping Hands group here: www.flickr.com/groups/helping_hands_photo_editing_and_pho...

 

Original photo by Kristi Stone. Thanks to SkeletalMess for use of his texture: Grunge 1 here www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/3504786188/

 

Editing steps used in Photoshop Elements 8:

Created new 12x12 file, selected the original file and used the move tool to move into new file and resized to fit.

Add New Adjustment Layer - Levels, set using Auto Levels

Duplicated photo layer and applied a High Pass Filter with a radius of 50.0, set to Overlay at 100%, this brought out all the wonderful textures in the boots.

Applied Layer Mask to the High Pass layer and masked out the background foliage so it would not be as detailed.

Layer>>New Fill Layer>>Solid Color...navy blue #06022e set to Exclusion at 100%

Layer>>New Fill Layer>>Solid Color...brown #221605 set to Soft Light at 42%

Added the texture layer twice, the first as Overlay at 100% and the second as Hard Light at 72%

Done