article_snippet: Sean Collins spent two weeks testing different ways to change the texture of the different images .
article_snippet: It's not as simple as just adding blur to the top and bottom to achieve the effect.
article_snippet: I spent two weeks testing different ways to change the "texture" of the image,’ Sean Collins said.
article_snippet: I experimented with some really distorted toy-like effects but eventually settled on this more subtle effect.
article_snippet: This was a combination of noise reduction and sharpening.