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Critique By:
Roger Cotgreave (K:15892)
4/2/2004 5:26:07 PM
beautiful image Richard..thr BW looks good in this one.
I also bought Fred's plugin but I can do it much quicker that works for me.I think petteri actions are good but I do it this way. I tune up the colour version and then change it to BW via lab mode keeping the lightness channel, flip this to greyscale and then back to RGB.
Make a colour balance adjustment layer and slot a bit of red and yellow into the midtones and blue into the shadows or vica versa or whatever colour you want. Then give this a multiply filter which darkens the bottom copy.
Hold shift, ctrl, alt, E, while your pointer is on make new layer, bottom of layers palette. This will make a copy of all the layers without flattening them. So now you have three layers, original,adjustment layer and a layer combined of both.
Go back to the adjustment layer and lower the opacity and merge with background layer. Now I have two copies one darker and one lighter. I make a mask between the two of them and start rubbbing back into the lighter copy and playing with the opacity. I will do this until I have the play of light and darker the way I want it...It sounds a lot but it isn't. If I just want the BW shot skip out the colour adjustment layer just make a copy and give it a multiply filter ( overlay and soft light work well) and do as above....let me know how you go, rog
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