Photoshop: Worn Effect Practice

Today I learnt how to make a worn effect in Photoshop. I simply asked Google and found this page:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCZ2cl0CjMk

The process is actually incredibly simply.

- I found a stock image of worn paper on the Internet and opened it up in Photoshop.
- I then altered its Curves before changing it to Grayscale.
- Then I selected it all and copied it over to a new channel in my Postcard image (also opened in Photoshop).
- After this I went to Select and chose Colour Range.
- I played around with the field of selection somewhat and chose an area of the image to select.
- Then I went to my image layer and inverted the selection so as not to delete the majority of my image.
- Finally I pressed select and removed parts of the image to make it look worn.

Although I've had a bit of practice with this process I feel I can do it better. I may attempt to create the worn effect for these images again at some point.