Grunge Friesian

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My first really time consuming photo manipulation!
I've been working on it for the past few days. It's so fun...
Lots of textures, effects, and effort went into this one.

Here's a list of all the things I did...

- Added lighting effect to background image
- Placed Friesian after masking out the background
- Adjusted hue/saturation
- Converted to black and white
- Adjusted color balance
- Added poster edges filter
- Made a dark border with inner glow
- Overlayed vintage texture (credits below)
- Distressed image with various brushes (credits below)

Comments? I would love to hear your thoughts!

<sub>Created in Photoshop CS3 on October 02, 2008.

Brush Credits:
[link] by ~Scully7491
[link] by ~szuia

Texture:
[link] by `Princess-of-Shadows

Stock Credits:
(background) [link] by *Katanaz-Stock
(friesian) [link] from Google Images</sub>