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Nashwa Ibrahim
{K:373} 3/7/2006
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It's like a dream.
Nashwa
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greg collins
{K:12273} 3/5/2006
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Great effect and title. looks like a blurry flash back.
Greg
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Rick Page
{K:5242} 3/5/2006
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Thanks for the Orton link. Very enjoyable....rick
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SarahM none
{K:7836} 3/5/2006
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Thank you for the information on how you acheived this effect!!
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Gregory McLemore
{K:35129} 3/5/2006
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Pure magic.
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Christopher Jamison
{K:1230} 3/5/2006
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thanks guys! this is not a 'canned' photoshop effect...but it's a technique I learned on another site... i'll paste it below...not sure if it will all fit or not...
Digital Technique
Here, there are many ways to simulate an Orton slide sandwich. You can do it the same way as outlined above for slides overexposing two separate images and then in the computer stacking the images together in software and blending them. Personally, I prefer to take my existing digitized photos (either from film scans or digital camera files) and running them through the process below to see if they work as “Orton Images”.
Here is the step-by-step recipe for making Orton images in Photoshop:
1. Open any image you wish to try the technique on. Make a duplicate of the image (Image>Duplicate). Close the original image.
2. Lighten the image as follows: Image>Apply Image… then in the dialog box that comes up change the bending mode to “Screen” and the Opacity to 100%. This will give you an appropriately overexposed image.
3. Duplicate this overexposed image (Image>Duplicate).
4. Blur this second image (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur… and in the dialog box use a Radius setting of 15 to 50 pixels – the higher the pixel setting the blurrier the photo and the more ‘painterly’ the image… but you can go too far!). Experiment with different settings, for my tastes and for the size of my digital files (50-100 megabytes) a radius of about 25 pixels works perfect.
5. Now select the move tool from the Photoshop tool bar (or just press “v” on your keyboard for quicker access to the move tool). Hold down the “shift” key and use your mouse to drag and drop the blurry image onto the sharp one (don’t let go of the shift key until after you release the mouse button or the images won’t be in perfect alignment).
6. Bring up the layers palette in Photoshop (F7 is the keyboard shortcut). Under the word “Layers” in the layers palette will be a menu box of blending modes. Change the blending mode from “normal” to “multiply”.
7. Now “flatten’ the two layers by pressing “CTRL+E” or by clicking on the sideways triangle in the layers palette to select ‘flatten image’.
There, you now have an Orton image - if you like your new masterpiece save the file!
Photo 4 is the original digital camera file; photo 5 is the digital Orton. Sometimes I will take the original image, move it back on top of the Orton Image and using the ‘normal’ blending mode in the layers palette and reduce the opacity to about 50% so I have a combination of a ‘standard’ and Orton image – the result is something that looks realistic yet slightly artsy (see Photos 6 and 7).
To learn more about Michael Orton and for a great book on “Photographing Creative Landscapes” go to: www.michaelorton.com.
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Rick Page
{K:5242} 3/5/2006
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Looks like one of the filters in PS. I've used it a few times on fall colors.It really works out well on this image whatever the effect may be...Rick
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SarahM none
{K:7836} 3/5/2006
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A lovely picture with a nice composition. I like the tree branches on the right and the hint of snow on the edge. If you have a moment, it would be helpful for us to know how you achieved this effect. It is a NIK filter?
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