Photo Forum Digital Darkroom

Photographer Dave Hill has sparked a popular style of a grunge effect. Rick Nevels of Nevels-Lowe Photography brought us some techniques that are very similar during our Digital Darkroom class at The Photo Forum. While this does seem to be better achieved in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom which I do not have at this time, I did find a few ideas to try in Photoshop 7 to give a grungy look. I have noticed you have to have the right style of picture for this to really look nice. Here is a couple of before and after images. Let me know what you think.