Adding Age to an Image

What is the easiest way to get the affect that is on this image?



Filter or plugin?

Thank you!

hi,
niether.... i belived they used one of the grunge brushes...

they click the eraser tool and then chose the brush shape...
and just click away on areas where they wanted to the color flaking off..
that the easist and quickest

they probably used maybe 2 or 3 grunge brushes.... just so to add a little variety and more realism..

but there several other ways... maybe give better results but take long
here they used a city background but one can use some sort of texture like stone, wood, etc... here a couple
http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/181/en/
http://www.kirupa.com/motiongraphics/grunge_border.htm

they probably used maybe 2 or 3 grunge brushes.... just so to add a little variety and more realism..