Crookes Valley Park - Orton Effect

Taken in Crookes Valley Park in Sheffield, and edited using the Orton Effect technique in Photoshop.

More Orton Effect

I've been doing some more playing with the Orton Effect, and the picture above in particular has had some really good feedback. I like the effect and want to try it on different types of photos, as well as floral and pretty ones.

Photo to Drawing: Raspberries

Back to this tutorial, it's a bit tricky, but spending a little time can get really great results. I love it!

And the raspberries were tasty, too!

Classical Art Colour Match

This colour-match tutorial states,

Adjusting your photographs to get the color 'just right' can be a chore. Think about this: The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?

I used 'Garrotte' by Santiago Bose to really alter, and improve, the colouring of this photograph of the church in Edale, Derbyshire.



With the tutorial and the Bose image, I created this:



I then used the same technique on this portrait:


and, using the colours from this floral painting, created this quite different mood.

Burma Follow-Up

The image I created in solidarity with the Burmese people has been used in a video on youtube, gentle touch. It's worth a look - lots of great images, to peaceful music.

You can find out more about the Free Burma Campaign.

Dreams. Edited in Photoshop CS3

Dreams, originally uploaded by incurable_hippie.

Original image:

1. Select the statue using the magnetic lasso tool
2. Select > Modify > Feather > 5
   
3. Image > Adjustments > Black and White
   
4. Adjust the colours until the angel is how you want it.
   
5. Select > Inverse
   
6. Filter > Blur > Radial Blur
   
7. Adjust the settings until the background is how you want it to be.
   
8. Image > Adjustments > Hue & Saturation.
   
9. Adjust the 'hue' until the background is how you want it.
   
10. Select > Deselect
    
11. Filter > Render > Lens Flare
    
12. Move the lens flare to behind the statue's head.
    
13. Filter > Render > Lighting Effects > Light Type > Omni
    
14. Adjust all settings until it looks right. I moved the light to the statue's hands and adjusted the over / under exposure settings.
    

Cats

Some work I've done in the digital darkroom today.