Kind of

The above is the pic I started from, cropped the center, put a lace layer over top with a gradient and something (hehe). I am not real sure of what I did, maybe a render? Then I desaturated and voila. I enjoy doing this, it gets me to play around with photoshop and see what I can do.

the rose

Picture of a dead rose. Reduced the saturation all the way. Used old photo effect and then old paper effect

My Threshold Try

I found an awesome tutorial that helped me to figure this out. What do you think?

Experimenting with threshold

Added a threshold adjustment layer above the original, merged down, deleted the white area, added a gradient layer underneath, merged down again. Then I used the cut out filter and added a slight texture.

Lets see what you can do with threshold.