Carol -question about an effect in your gall

[Simone]

Hi Carol, Question for you. I just love this image in your gallery. (Man outside the barn). Love the colors, composition, effect, everything.
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/gallery/view_img.php?id=15514

Wondering if you'd be willing to kindly share a some tips on what techniques you used to achive this look? I'm still a newbie and wanna learn everything I can from you experts! :)

Or... is there a tut or video you could point me to? Thanks so much! :)

[Cmcburnett]

Hi Simone, I clicked on the link you posted. I like the photo also. Looks like Carol used the burn tool. Have you tried emailing her to see how she created effect?

[CarolLHB]

Hi Simone-(and thanks Wendy for pointing this thread out to me)

Out of the camera this photo was a little light, so the first thing after resizing it was to run a levels adjustment and fooled around to get it like I wanted it-then merged the layers.

Now comes the Oh crap what did I do??? part!

Duped the layer and put a little gaussian blur-
Then I duplicated the layer again and set the blend mode to multiply-opacity at 75%

Then I added a levels adjustment layer and painted with black to bring out some of the highlights again on his pants and top of the hat.

At least I think that's what I did...really it was the result of just fooling around-I really should write stuff down, but I never know when I'm going to get something that I love! Tell you one thing though-I have a lot of fun with the multply blend mode-it does some great things to certain photos.

Hope this helps-sorry I couldn't be more specific...:o

[kroberts]

Carol,

Great image!:) What must be the gaussian blur is what I thought was some other filter that you applied, like in the painting tut.

I know what you mean by needing to write things down, I often come up with an image I like just by experimenting and can never duplicate the effect. I guess that's the fun of PSE, huh?

[CarolLHB]

Absolutely, Kim...until someone wants to know what you did! Then I feel like a shmuck!:o

Thanks for the kind words-

[Robyn]

Carol.......what a wonderful image. Front runner for IOW I reckon!

..........and thanks for the tips!

[CarolLHB]

Thanks Robyn-sweet of you to say...:)

[msbrad]

Carol,
Great image and I love your reply. I often do not know how i do things.
Sometimes things just evolve. Boy ,I need a gps to tell me what I've done.
That will be my next suggestion for the next revised program.
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[mel]

...really it was the result of just fooling around

Isn't this when we usually come up with the greatest results??

Stunning image Carol!! I love everything about it :) :)

[mel]

PS (forgot to add :o )......thanks for sharing how you did it. I will be sure to try this out on the right photo ;)

[Simone]

Carol, thanks SO much for sharing those tips on "how ya did it"! Wow! :)
That was perfect info for what I was looking for. I'm sorry, I think perhaps my post was unclear, I meant, just tips and *generally* what features had you used.... I hadn't seen such a beautiful effect before. I wasn't expecting step-by-step details; I mean, I "just fool around" alot too and who can remember every single thing they did? :) At least, not me with the ol' aging memory ....
The main take-away I got is that I wanna play around more with layer blend modes, mutliply and opacity. Been doing some of that but need to do more. And I'm going to take the Layers class. I tinkered last night and using mutliply turned out sooooo cool.....Maybe if I come up with something I like I'll share it...

And THANKS once again for taking the time, you and this place are so great for us greenies! :D

[Kathy]

Beautiful image Carol.

Thanks for sharing. :)

Kathy

[CarolLHB]

Thanks everyone-you guys are makin' me feel so good!:rolleyes:

Simone-definitely take that class-even at the beginning, which was a lot of stuff I already knew there were a few "oh yeah..." moments, stuff I hadn't done in a while and had forgotten about-there's that memory stuff again! I have really found that going away for a while, like when I had my surgery, you get out of practice and have to get back into the swing of things.

[Cmcburnett]

Thanks Carol. I love the photo. I will have to play with the multiply blend tool, sounds like fun.