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Terry Grogan |
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This was a fun week. I learned about adjustment layers
in the Digital Darkroom class, but I didn't get the chance to play with
the special effects during that class. |
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Here's a photo of my poor dog - who my husband makes
endure some of the most embarrassing situations! The picture was ok, but a
bit bland and fuzzy.
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Here it is with adjustment layers. I used a
brightness/contrast layer set at 4/17 and 90% opacity, then a HSL layer
with -2 for Hue and 4 for Saturation. Finally, I duplicated the original
layer, moved it to the top, the applied the "sharpen more" effect and set
at 84% opacity to take advantage of my other adjustments.
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For the adjustments exercise, I decided to use a picture of a monarch
butterfly, the left image, add several adjustment layers, similar to what
was suggested in the class, and come up the image on the right. |
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This is the sectional view of each layer, along with the layers palette.
To achieve this effect, I did the following: 1) Duplicated the layer and
made it invisible. 2) On the original layer, I added an INVERT adjustment
layer and set the blend mode to color. 3) I added another adjustment layer
of HSL with saturation set at -80 and hue at 50, with a blend mode of
difference and 50% opacity. 4) I then added a CURVES adjustment layer,
moving the top and bottom nodes down/up and in one full square,
respectively and setting blend to overlay. 5) Finally, I made my
duplicated layer visible, used Manual Color Correction, selected some of
the white, and used the pure color, black. I then set the blend mode to
screen and opacity to 60%.
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Click here for
the rest of this week's lesson.
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