Robyn Tang

I really like the soft, charcoal/pencil texture of this picture, as well as how the edges blend out. Would anyone know how to create this effect? Any help would be much appreciated.

Blinky2004

The blends are just Layer Masks added to each separate photo layer. Then a soft brush is used to paint out the areas of the photo that you don't want visible.
A trick to doing fancy blends like those seen here is to paint using greys as well as black. But also, using a graphic pen (tablet) with pressure sensitivity will work best for semi-transparent blending.
If you don't have a tablet, then try using a really large soft brush to paint out unwanted areas. That will provide a wider range area of opaque to transparent blending.

The colour effect is simply an overlay. Add a HUE&SAT Adjustment layer above of the photo layers. Click the "Colorize" option, then adjust the HUE slider to find the colour you want.
As well... reduce the Saturation to 50% or less.

And to tighten up the levels, add a LEVELS Adjustment layer above the HUE&SAT layer. Adjust the center (gamma) slider left or right to manipulate the middle greys in the photos, then tweak the white and/or black sliders to compensate for any loss from either of those ranges.

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Bacardi

I have the impression that there is also a grain added to it.

I also think that the original is larger, and that this is a reduced version.

Adding grain can be done as follows:

Add a new layer from the Layers MENU (not by clicking the icon at the bottom of the layers palette). In the dialog choose Multiply blend mode and check the box to fill with neutral grey. (you cannot apply grain to an empty layer)
Multiply will darken everything, except where the top layer is white or the result is black.

Now apply the Filter> Texture>Grain, and set to soft.
Image>Adjustments>Desaturate
Set the opacity to some 50.

Depending on the effect you want, and the level of decreasing the size, you may have to adapt these values.

To burn away the grain in the whites, you may want to try a blend mode that lightens lights and darkens darks like Overlay or Soft Light. Hard light will favour the top layer so you'll loose too much of your darks.

Bacardi

Looking even closer, I get the impression that (s)he used a halftone pattern.

This you can simulate by using the color halftone filter on a separate file, desaturate it, then use levels and threshold on it.
Finally reduce the size to some 10-20% and define a pattern from it.

Finally, on your image, fill a sepatare layer with it and try overlay or softlight.

wbiss

Welcome aboard Robyn Tang!

This is a nice look that you've posted and I can see that theKeeper and Erik have given you insight and tips on how to recreate it for yourself!'

Good luck and enjoy your time here!