My old bicycle lock/chain combination. I thought the filtering gave it an interesting look reminiscent of salmon or trout skin.
-Handheld, SuperMacro mode, tungsten light, auto WB
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Flatten image
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 88%/1.3 dia/TH = 5
-USM at 88%/1.3 dia/TH = 5
-Duplicated Bakground Layer
-Ran "Find Edges" filter on duplicate layer
-Set mode of duplicate layer to Multiply, Opacity to 40%
-Flatten image
-Copied Green channel to Grayscale document
-Grayscale -> RGB
-Crop from bottom and top to 3:2 ratio
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 121kb
Resized original:
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