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dprowe - Bob's River
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dprowe
Junior Member
Registered: April 2005
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When creating an art effect from a photograph I always like to prepare the base image as if I were retouching it or optimizing it to stand on its own. That way when the art filters are applied I almost always get a much better over-all effect.
Open JPG with Camera raw dialogue in PhotoshopCS3 with the following settings:
Temperature: +20
Recovery: 0
Fill Light: +24
Blacks: +2
Brightness: 0
Contrast: +8
Vibrance: +10
Saturation: +15
Tone Curve set to Medium Contrast
AdobeRGB1998; 16bit; 2000 by 1500 (3mp); 240ppi
Once in Photoshop I applied a levels adjustment layer choosing the options of 'Find dark & light colors' and 'Snap to midtones' (OK) then (OK) -- I changed the property of this adjustment layer from normal to luminosity because I wanted the improved lighting but didn't want to lose the existing color.
I merged the adjustment layer with the background layer -- leaving us again with one background layer only.
Convert to 8bit at this point.
Save as PSD file.
Save as TIF file and convert to lab color and choose lightness layer (PC Ctrl-1).
Used 'smart blur' to sharpen the lightness layer with high quality setting -- play with other settings until you get your desired effect.
Moved to layer (a) and applied gaussian blur at 2px to soften pixelized colors
Moved to layer (b) and applied gaussian blur at 3px to do the same
Converted TIFF back to RGB color mode. Save TIF file.
Open PSD and duplicate TIF to PSD file to create another (sharpened) layer -- called 'background copy'.
Close TIF file.
Back in the PSD file I changed the sharpened layer to a soft-light property with a fill of 50%. This goosed the beautiful sunlight patches, the greens and, along with improving focus, gave us a more dynamic 3D feel.
Merged layers and made a layer via copy (PC Ctrl-J)
I then applied OptikVerve's free filter 'Virtual Photographer' to the new layer using the LANDSCAPE setting. I left the property of this layer at 'normal' but used a fill opacity of 80%.
Merged layers. At this point the photo is looking really good and, I think, would make a lovely notecard or something to that effect.
When used creatively the Virtual painter filters can achieve some great effects so I opted to use the color pencil filter with this image.
Create layer via copy (PC Ctrl-J)
Apply Virtual Painter filter to top layer using colored pencil filter -- everything set to subtle except color which I set to normal.
Set top (color pencil) layer to a property of Color Dodge with a fill opacity of 32%.
Merged layers and done.
Beautiful photo, Bob!
Dana
New York, NY
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| · Date: 1/5/2008 · Views: 4001 · Filesize: 89.0kb, 197.2kb · Dimensions: 800 x 600 ·
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Keywords: Photo-Art-Challenge # 29, dprowe
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Doug Nelson
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Registered: August 2001
Posts: 6,301
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Excellent description, thanks!
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Janet Petty
Senior Member
Registered: January 2004
Location: Mid-South
Posts: 2,111
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Superb description. I'm so very glad someone actually keeps track of their steps. Thank you.
BTW, I'm not so diligent and tend to get caught up in the process rather than the workflow.
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