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[Dan Cattermole]

I can't even afford 4 lights for a room let alone Lightroom 4! Why do you think I have an Olympus?
Children couldn't possibly be the answer could it? lol

My LR....... well... if you want to get on that again........ My LR has SOUL!!!!

 

[Dan Cattermole]

P1197437.ORF

Has this worked??

 

[adrian jordin]

Ok, a quick 5 minute process...I'll experiment a bit more over the weekend...



-process raw in rawtherapee - tweak exposure, black level, save as jpeg
- open jpeg in PS, duplicate layer and open in Topaz B&W
- Cyanotype 'Prussian' with a vignette to darken the corners
-back to PS, duplicate layer and add a touch of radial blur
- blend layer with 'screen' mode

 

[Dan Cattermole]

**** me that's ****ing ace!!!!
Wow! Is that's what you had in mind?? Terrific!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

super thread Dan and great input everyone

Tried the downloaded file, but PS says it doesn't recognize the file?

Mine's trained on only Canon, so is probably unable to understand any other manufacturer's RAW format!

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Sorted - iPhoto could read it and then export as a TIFF to PS

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Blown away!! Simply blown away!!! Loving the help guys.
Thank you so much! Now this is AWESOME chris!! Really like this silver finish to it!
Can't choose now

 

[Hamish Gill]

Not worlds apart from what everyone has been doing
Cropped then blurred the extremities, black and white, and grain ...

I seem to have brought out a face of a very hairy monkey in her crown

also in cropping i thought i would try applying the golden spiral ... at least as lightroom gives it on a square crop ...
this is how i croped

 

[Pete Askew]

That's no monkey, that's a Wookie!! Dan, you haven't got a light sabre hidden under your bed by any chance do you?

Nice version Hamish and a great idea. Maybe rotating the mask a tiny bit clockwise before cropping to help 'feed' the spiral. What do you think?

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Hahaha! I can see it now! Well spotted.
Thanks very much Hamish. That's look brilliant.
I'm liking the help on this guys, really appreciated. I will get the final edit printed

Pete, I don't have a light sabre.
Although that would make good light painting!

 

[Hamish Gill]

how do you mean Pete?
i thought it worked quite well with the part of the spiral closest to the centre...

 

[Pete Askew]

I visualise the centre a bit further forward but mainly I was think about rotating the crop itself so that the highlighted cluster of hair aligns with the bottom RH corner if that makes sense.

 

[Hamish Gill]

... your blowin ma mind Pete!
show me!

 

[Pete Askew]

 

[Hamish Gill]

... Ah ... i see why i was struggling, the end result has a vignette on the bottom right that looses that bit of hair going into the corner ... ...

 

[Pete Askew]

I know but I find the eye still follows the line.

 

[Hamish Gill]

indeed... I was just getting my self a little confused... long monday!

the face is wierding me out a bit now, we are listening to 'boards of canada' in the office, that combined with staring at this picture makes you feel a little odd...
It would actually work as a album cover for Boards i think! or maybe 'Godspeed You! Black Emperor' something a bit odd like that!

 

[Pete Askew]

Well, that'll be Dan's entry sorted out then!!

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Haha! Thanks pete.
Looking good that though Hamish. Do you think I could get the full size jpeg by any chance?
I want to get it printed.

 

[Hamish Gill]

... Erm I suppose, why don't you try and emulate the effect your self?
If you get bloody Lightroom 3 I could just give you a preset and you could apply it your self an tweak to taste!
Will you get damn LR3 please!