Old broken mill - the making of - part 1

The original source i started out with.

To create this kind of work you need a scan of a piece of old paper.

I did a Google search and found this piece long time ago. I have it for ages (you can tell by the look of it no? LOL) and I really
have no clue anymore where i got it from. If you do a google search for antique paper or simulair search terms you will be able to find one too.

Duplicate the mill layer and make the bottom layer invisible by clicking on the eye icon next to it.
Select the top layer with the mill and go to image ->adjustments->shadows/highlights and set the vallues like in the above example. ( you will see the result i got in the background picture) and click ok.

Next I changed the brightnes- contrast (can find that also under the image menu.)

I set the brightnes on -25 and the contrast on -50 as in the example above.

Click ok.

Then click on the black/white circle below the layers (1) and select gradient. (2) (make sure your fore and background color are
set as default black/white when you do this)