Forum: Photography


Subject: November Forum Challenge

bclaytonphoto opened this issue on Oct 31, 2007 ยท 81 posts


astro66 posted Tue, 06 November 2007 at 12:29 AM

Tom's right, it would be more helpful if I had explained how I had done it so...

  1. Create a copy of the background layer
  2. Use the channel mixer to convert the duplicate layer to monochrome
  3. Create a layer mask and paint on it to reveal the layer underneath. As I moved away from the sun I decreased the opacity of the brush, to about 10% I think, to help it blend in better.

Looking at it now I think it lacks a bit of punch, maybe I should have used an image with stronger colours to start with. I have tons of sunrise/set pics I'll fiddle around and see if I can come up with something a little better. :)

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