wyndhydra
04-02-2007, 09:47 PM
Hey all,
I thought this might be an interesting one for some of you to play around with.
Before
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7561734@N07/443994728/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/443994728_50ebf8bcea.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Unretouched flower" /></a>
After
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7561734@N07/443994744/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/443994744_c74695176d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Retouched Flower" /></a>
I kind of like the less is more approach and thought my original shot was way to cluttered. Retouching was done in photoshop and will be described using those tools.
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:confused: .
I thought this might be an interesting one for some of you to play around with.
Before
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7561734@N07/443994728/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/443994728_50ebf8bcea.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Unretouched flower" /></a>
After
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7561734@N07/443994744/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/168/443994744_c74695176d.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Retouched Flower" /></a>
I kind of like the less is more approach and thought my original shot was way to cluttered. Retouching was done in photoshop and will be described using those tools.
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:confused: .