Forum: Photography

Subject: Metallic Flowers

Misha883 opened this issue on Aug 12, 2004 ยท 7 posts

Misha883 posted Thu, 12 August 2004 at 8:30 PM

I did not necessarily intend them to look metallic; maybe it is the minerals in the soil? Start with a wide tonal range, nicely detailed color shot. [http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=732541&Start=1&Artist=Misha883&ByArtist=Yes] Take a look at the channels. Here, the RED channel looks nice, but the GREEN looks REALLY nice. Depending on how the whim strikes me, at this point I may choose just to use one channel unchanged. But, for this tutorial, copy and paste the RED channel into a new document.Then, copy and paste the GREEN channel over the RED, and SHARPEN. Then, change the layer blend mode to MULTIPLY, and adjust the opacity, here about 70%. And Flatten. Finally, I apply one one of Donald's curves presets, available in our Resource Center Downloads area (which for some reason I can never copy a link to...).

Misha883 posted Thu, 12 August 2004 at 8:31 PM

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logiloglu posted Fri, 13 August 2004 at 3:01 AM

a great tutorial for this most wonderful metallic tones. thanks for sharing,Micha. !!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!

terra-man posted Fri, 13 August 2004 at 6:28 AM

Thanks for sharing indeed!!!!

Tedz posted Fri, 13 August 2004 at 12:16 PM

Stunning :]

Nilla posted Fri, 13 August 2004 at 3:39 PM

Simply gorgeous Misha! :)

DHolman posted Thu, 19 August 2004 at 2:50 PM

Beautiful tonality Misha. These are the kind of rich tones I love in black and white. I'm a little distracted by some of the bright little bits on the left side I'd probably clone those out so that all attention is pulled to the beautiful flowers. But that may just be me. -=>Donald