It would be nearly impossible to duplicate this twice since I tend to fly by the seat of my pants. But I worked up a basic steps that will get you close to what happened on that go around
1. Use Selection Tool to crop image. Image > Crop
2. Duplicate BackgroundLayer and Rename to Layer 1.
3. Ctrl-D to deselect.
4 Working in Layer 1. Filter > Artistic > Film Grain. Grain (3), Highlight Area (0), Intensity (2).
5. Filter > Brush Strokes > Sprayed Strokes. Lenght(0), Radius(0), Direction(whatever).
6 Layer > Duplicate Layer. Rename as Layer 2.
7. Working in Layer 2. Filter > Render > Lighting Effects
Style: 3 Down
LightType: Spotlight
Intesity: 35
Focus: 96
Gloss: Full to Matte
Material: Mettallic
Exposure: -14
Ambience: 36
Texture Channel: None
Play with these setting to achieve different lighting effects. BTW Render Lighting effects can be used in a much better manner to preprocess photos than the standard image adjustments.
8. Layer > Duplicate Layer. Rename as Layer 3.
9. Working in Layer 3. Layer > LayerStyle > Blending Options ( or right click the Layer in the Layer View > Blending Options)
10. Blend Mode PinLight. Pattern Overlay (Select a subtle canvas pattern). Blend Mode; Darken. Scale 50%.
Once again play with these settings to achieve your desired effect.
11. Ctrl - E x 2. You should now have a Background Layer and a new Layer 1.
12. Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color (Grey works best, ex. RGB of 165).
13. Filter > Render > Difference Clouds
14. Layer > LayerStyle > Blending Options
15. Blend Mode: Soft Light > Gradient Overlay (standard black to white) Blend Mode: Hard Light. Style: Linear. Angle: 90
16. Ctrl - E. Once again you should be left with a Layer 1 and a Background Layer.
17. This should give you the basic idea.
Adjusting settings and playing with different blend modes will give you different results. Play around with it until you get the desired effect.
Hint. Always make duplicate copies of layers as you are going in case you mess something up so you don't have to start from complete scratch. The above may seem redundant to duplicate layers before adding new effects but its my method of saving before new filtering changes and for layering effects :P
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