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Originally Posted by wyndhydra
Hey all,
1. Selection was initially done by duplicating the blue color channel. I then copied the channel and used the fade command with a multiply mode and adjusted opacity until it was mostly dark except the flowers.
2. From there I burned and dodged around the flowers to make a black and white alpha channel which was later used for masking.
3. With the alpha channel complete I duplicated the original layer and masked out the background.
4. I then added a color layer for the background, with a radial gradient layer to reduce it out from the center.
5. The last touch was to tack on a black layer and use the add film grain filter to apply a more realistic printed photo look. This helped to reduce those sharp edges a bit from the initial selection. The opacity and fill of the layer were both reduced to about 5%.
Feel free to ask questions as I'm not sure whether these directions are good enough  . |
Thanks for posting how you did this!