Does this qualify for a blend? Trying for a believable old time look.
Used two paper textures I got off the internet as part of the blend. Tried various blend modes. The hard part to figure out was to get the organic looking dark and light spots which look like small chemical stains. Used a white layer, filled it with a large grain pattern in color, blurred it slightly. Used the magic wand set to contiguous and threshold of 10 or so (depending upon size of blob I wanted), and add to selection. Sat for half an hour picking blobs. Depending upon the threshold and point picked, the blobs ranged from small to quite large -luck of the draw. Undid when made a bad selection. Converted selection to a mask and added to image layer with paper color layer beneath. This gave a nice random pattern of stains from small to large.
Used a grunge border mask for the edges.
You guys amaze me. I love your work. I don't do much of this kind of image but will try to in the future. I need to start build my library of textures.
GH2, 16:9, 160 ISO, 300mm Pany zoom at 162mm. Love that combo.
Larry