Outstanding photograph! I must say your backyard has undergone significant improvement. It is the mark of a great garnder to be able to mimic nature’s most powerful expressions.
1. Open your photograph in Photoshop.
2. Color correct your photo layer however you like to color correct, perhaps a bit of contrast or color balance or selective color, whatever.
3. Duplicate the photo layer.
4. Use the filter “Gaussian Blur” on the duplicated layer. For a photo of this size, set the radius to 5 pixels. For much larger photos, you can go much higher with radius size.
5. Set the duplicated, blurred layer to “multiply” either through the pull-down at the top of the layers palette or by double-clicking the layer and setting the General Blending, Blend Mode.
6. The result will be a little dark and you can play around with curves or lightness or whatever technique you want to use to lighten the photo.
7. Extraordinary!
One thing I recommend is setting the blend mode to multiply right after you duplicate the layer. Then when you are playing with the Gaussian Blur you can see what it is goingn to really do to the image.
The other thing I do is use the Dodge and Burn tools quite a bit.
I don’t use it a ton, but I used it on every one of these photos
Can you do all of this stuff with film photos scanned into the computermachine? Must it be taken digitally?
I heard that Cannon is coming out with a digital slr for under a thousand. Pretty tempting.
Outstanding photograph! I must say your backyard has undergone significant improvement. It is the mark of a great garnder to be able to mimic nature’s most powerful expressions.
hey – provide the link the instructions for how you did this (and what it’s called too)
I am using the “Dooce/Blurbomat Effect“.
One thing I recommend is setting the blend mode to multiply right after you duplicate the layer. Then when you are playing with the Gaussian Blur you can see what it is goingn to really do to the image.
The other thing I do is use the Dodge and Burn tools quite a bit.
I don’t use it a ton, but I used it on every one of these photos
Can you do all of this stuff with film photos scanned into the computermachine? Must it be taken digitally? I heard that Cannon is coming out with a digital slr for under a thousand. Pretty tempting.
If you have a transparency adapter for your scanner or a negative scanner then you can scan them in and manipulate them just like a digital photo.
I know the camera you are talking about, and it is pretty tempting.
The Canon 300D — rated very favorably against the Canon 10D…. price comparison is like $850 vs 1400
very tempting!