Been a while since I last posted ... I think I'm going through withdrawl. Been processing shots from my last studio shoot. Some of my best stuff ... too bad the model didn't want her photos on the internet (I understand and agree with her choice, else I wouldn't have photographed her, but they really are pretty good). Anyway, I was screwing around again today with different b&w conversions when this happened. I didn't pay attention but my top layer (background layer was still in color) was set to Lighten (I believe) when I did a B&W conversion on it. It's weird how it changed the overall color of everything to a sort of tinted monochrome with the exception of her top (it muted the blue a bit) and her the color of her eyes, which was untouched. Kind of a weird reaction I didn't expect and just thought it had a strange look to it. What can you do with it? I dunno ... depends on how repeatable it is. :) Ah well...gotta run. Running late for the Phillipine festival (padiriwang .... is that spelled right?). -=>Donald

Super shot Donald and I love the coloring in this one! Awesome!

Interesting, hope you will post more on this as you tinker with it. TMG

...strange. Very nice! [Yo 'prolly not member how, und make you crazy!, brhaaaaha.]

On other stuff, non-photographic, I've found that working in Hue/Saturation/Luminance does interesting things. On an image like that, most of the effect would be on the blue, though it would affect the general tint too.

Real purty.....! Those eyes.... sigh

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Eyeball envy? Is that what I'm seeing here? :) I'm trying to keep track of these little accidents so that when I have time I can see if a technique can be developed. Problem is, I get so busy that I sometimes forget where I put my notes "for safe keeping". Misha - You're just mean ... :P ... so there! :)

Seems like everything else in this shot would have a bit of red in it - I'm wondering if the B&W conversion on that layer affected the red, but not the green or blue...? (OK - I'm reaching here :^) ) Wolf

Wolf - yea, looking at it, the reds were effected. You know what, the b&w conversion I used was filtering on red. I think what happened is that the conversion, effected the red component, but through the LIGHTEN layer itself. Weird and cool. :)

i do like the use of selective coloring... interesting way of doing it... something else to try :]

Have you accidentally run the conversion on a channel instead of a layer? This looks like it might have been desaturation on a channel.

-- erlik

Erlik - No, was definitely on a layer. There was no reason for me to be in the layers for what I was doing. I also run in dual monitor configuration and I can see all the palettes at the same time. -=>Donald

She still looks good in B&W! Donald, when did you say she will be arriving?