Texture Tuesday ... sky diving

I spend so much time these days playing with special effects produced on my phone apps,

I'd almost forgotten how to add a texture to a  real  photo in PSE ...

well, not exactly, although I did feel mighty rusty.

Working on this photo brought up some interesting questions

mainly centered around my intentions:

what feeling am I after,

is there a certain mood I'm trying to convey?

I don't take the time to ask such things when I'm apping (I think that's a word). 

It's all swiping my finger this way & that, or clickclickclick until, 

"oooh, that looks cool," pops into my head.

Random.  Spontaneous.  Completely, utterly freeing.

It's the difference in approach, I suppose.  With phone apps it's all  PLAY  for me 

... sometimes serious play, but quite, quite different from opening PSE

and making  *on purpose*  choices.

None of this will make much sense for those not bitten by the app bug [yet],

but I'm intrigued by these differences.

It might take some more sky diving by the pond to figure this one out.

:::

Where I started from ... straight out of camera

Linking up with the gang over at Kim Klassen's place for the 

Black and White ... perhaps a Touch of Colour eDition.

Today's recipe:

DSLR color photo taken into Snapseed (for desktop), turned into b/w,

added vintage sepia layer; desaturated, lightened & adjusted levels in PSE;

added Kim's texture, paperstained music; desaturated color, adjusted contrast,

& erased all the texture except the bottom third;

added back a touch of yellow.