City - Yaboville State - AZ Country - United States
About
Class Project: Hi-Key/Low-Key Evoking a Mood.
Have you ever noticed how territorial cats are? We have three cats and each of them have "their" own special part of the house which they claim for themselves. The interesting thing is how different they act in their own space versus everywhere else. Yabo has claimed our Master bedroom, Master bathroom and Master closet. Luna has the Living room, foyer and formal dining room. Zumba claims the family room, my office, the kitchen and breakfast nook. All other spaces in the house are in the "Neutral Zone." Any cat can enter any other cat's space, however, when they do they are nervous, skiddish and always on guard. I've been calling each part of our house by new names. The Master bedroom, for example, is Yaboville. The living room is Lunatown, and the kitchen is Zumba City.
Okay, so, none of this explains the project (which I did previously) or what I did to this image. So, here it is:
It's hi-key (duh!) made thusly from a quick PS technique.
The Quickie Hi-Key (B&W) 1) Duplicate the background image (cmd/cntrl+j) 2) Desaturate the duplicate (cmd/cntrl+shift+U) 3) Create a New empty layer and Fill with white, drop its Opacity to 50% and change its Blending Mode to Color Dodge 4) Using a soft, low opacity, black Brush, paint over the details that you want to appear in your hi-key. When you finish painting, raise the Opacity of this layer to blow-out the white but keep the details.
You don't have to be too careful about where you paint with black as painting with white will remove any mistakes. Finish it off with a Gaussian Blur to soften your transitions.
I used this same technique on the Maytag Matilda image.
Comments are welcome. Thanks for looking at my work. ~ Warm regards, Rocky
LOL! Yeah, he doesn't have to run for election... he's self appointed for life! LOL!
I love sharing what I know about PS and photography. I've noticed that very few people share their post-processing here. I guess most are just being protective of their "style." One advantage of knowing PS really well is being able to know what someone has done to an image without them telling you.
Thanks for your always-encouraging and ever-kind feedback, Lin. I really value your comments.
I haven't noticed any lag in getting my comments from UF. So, maybe it's a lag somewhere in your corner of the globe?
This is great Rocky, I think he's saying he wants to run for another term...LOL. THANK YOU for the PS lessons, so generous of you to share your knowledge with us. I've added it to my PS "Tips from Rocky" sheet! Very interesting presentation. I like the off centered composition, the light and tones, your about is fun to read, you are as creative with your names as you are with your images. Well done my friend, sorry to be so late commenting, I'm having some problems with my comments on UF...not getting them until about 2 days later...not sure what's going on with that. They're trying to fix it...Big hugs..:)
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{K:174022} 10/12/2006
