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I am looking for a way to alter the final appearance of a PS 6 image to resemble a look which I've seen used in advertising lately. As an example, car ads (print and TV) tend now to have an almost silver, high contrast, low color saturation appearance reminiscent of a traditional gelatin silver print with undertones of full color. I’m wondering if this effect can be achieved directly in PS 6 or is some sort of aftermarket plug-in filter required.

You almost surely can get that effect by combining several built-in filters' effects; check out PSP tutorials--http://www.psplinks.com/index.html

but it's probably much easier to use one plugin filter, like Filter Factory Gallery Q "liquid metal" (my 1st choice); Gallery S has "silver or gold,"
"colour metalizer," & "monometallic."[/code]