Re: High Contrast

Lori Davis wrote:
> I was just playing around with an old photo. This is pure PSPPX2.
>
> Among other things, what I did here was duplicate the original twice
> and on the upper layer blew out the highlights with Levels and on the
> middle layer severely clipped the shadows with Levels. I set the
> blend range of the top layer so that only the highlights were visible
> and set the blend range of the middle layer so that only the shadows
> were visible. Then I merged the upper layer with an empty layer and
> set the layer style of the merged layer to get a goldish Outer Glow
> along the highlight areas. Then a H/S/L adjustment layer at the top
> of the layer stack to colorize the whole thing, giving it a slightly
> orange tinge, and an added Fine Canvas texture.
> Lori

Ohhh, I like this one, Lori, very mysterious!

Gail

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"Nightingail" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
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> Ohhh, I like this one, Lori, very mysterious!
>

Thanks, Gail. :) Larry likes it, too. He says that's from when he was 
handsome. (I think he looks pretty good nowadays, too.)

Lori