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[lkroll]

But I like Divide out Swampy. lol

Thanks all for the comments. Cool stuff from all of your versions; especially like the motion blur that you did Craig; wish I thought of that.

I just wish that PS would give us three layer properties that GIMP has; Divide, Value, and Subtract (not the same as Difference which GIMP gives that property too). I've found work arounds for Divide (dup, invert color Dodge set to 50% opacity), but not Subtract or Value. For the PS gurus, is there a way to just express the Value properties of a layer onto the stack? Luminosity just doesn't cut it for me for the most part (does have some benifits, but Value is uber more useful to me).

[Swampy]

Originally Posted by lkroll

But I like Divide out Swampy. lol

I just wish that PS would give us three layer properties that GIMP has; Divide, Value, and Subtract (not the same as Difference which GIMP gives that property too). I've found work arounds for Divide (dup, invert color Dodge set to 50% opacity), but not Subtract or Value. For the PS gurus, is there a way to just express the Value properties of a layer onto the stack? Luminosity just doesn't cut it for me for the most part (does have some benifits, but Value is uber more useful to me).

In PS you can select the luminosity for the light values (OPTION+COMMAND+~). Make the same selection and inverse for the shadows. When I need midtones, I use the Color Range and select the midtones. I guess you could also use Color Range to select the highlights and shadows, but it still all requires 3 selections. I don't know of a way to set value properties for a given layer.

[Kraellin]

thanks, dee dee, lk

i selected the car out and put it on a new layer, motion blurred it and copied that twice more to separate layers, then moved each of those two a bit to the left and then did a low opacity erase on bits and pieces to allow the other parts to show through.

[Swampy]

Very effective, Craig. I would never have thought to make those copies and nudge them over a couple pixels. Clever!

[lkroll]

That's what I figured Swampy; lots of work when all I have to do in GIMP is change the layer property to Value. lol

Maybe someone will come up with a plugin that does this transparently to the stupid end user behind my computer monitor. In the meantime, I will use both CS2 and GIMP (still a master of none; ).

[Kraellin]

thanks, dee dee