August Image - "Window Pane of Color"

How I Did It -

My original image was taken along the “Pan Handle” of Florida, in a small town called Rosemary, just east of Destin Beach Florida.

I took this picture because I like the leading lines of the boardwalk up to the “Shower House” and beachfront cottages.

I enhanced the original image first with a Hue Saturation adjustment layer, flattened the image and duplicated the new flattened background layer and added a “BuZZ Filter” effect.

• I now added a layer mask to the BuZZ filter layer and painted back the original detail I wanted from the underlying layer.

• Next I flattened the image again, duplicated the new “Background Layer” and applied the “Ocean Ripple” filter from the Photoshop “Filter Gallery”.

• Settings: Ripple Size: 14 and Ripple Magnitude: set at 10.

• With this Ripple Effect layer still active, I created a layer mask and then used a soft edged brush to paint back the detail I wanted from the under lying layer.

• I wanted a painterly effect showing globs of thick smeary paint on the edges and parts of basic shapes and forms in the image.

• After creating the look, I wanted I flattened the image again and duplicated the newly created “Background Layer”

• I activated (selected) the bottom background layer and converted it into a black and white image using the “Channel Mixer”. I now had a Blk & White image on the bottom layer and Color image on top.

• Using a “Selection Tool” I created a distorted looking diamond shape selection and “Inversed” my selection (main menu, SELECT – INVERSE).

• I “Deleted” the image inside this selection, which revealed the underlying Blk & White image. I now had a color image layered on top of a black and white image.

• To really dramatize this effect I needed to go a step further. I wanted this color section to have depth and feel, of a three dimensional “Window Pane”.

• To accomplish this I left my Triangle (diamond shape) selection still active and then opened the “Layers Blending Mode” window.

• How, LAYERS – LAYER STLYES – BLENDING OPTIONS

• This opens the LAYERS STYLE window where you can add a line stroke to your selection and add a layer shadow and beveled edge to a layer.

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Member Bio

Skip LaRue - Biography I’ve been in the graphic art industry for 45 years, specializing in print media and photography, designing corporate logos, brochures, catalogs, direct mail pieces, plus many other types of commercial and industrial print collateral.  I’ve directed studio and on-site photography for corporate materials and catalogs. My first position was graphic designer for May Co. Department Stores, laying out retail newspaper ads for the Men’s apparel and Home Furnishing Divisions.  From there I moved to Maritz Inc., a motivational incentive business as art director designing their award catalogs.  Twelve years later, I joined Hazel, Inc., a large manufacturer of leather and vinyl products and ad specialty office products as their art director. In 1984 I started my own traditional graphic arts business, and in 1990, driven by the industry, converted over to computer graphics and by 2001 thoroughly embraced the now prominent digital photography technology. Today, I am semi-retired from the graphics business, servicing select clients.  I spend most of my free time pursuing my lifelong passion for fine art photography, focusing my attention on creative concepts in photo composite illustrations.  I work with Apple computers, Epson printers and Canon camera equipment.  Software applications that I use on a regular basis are Adobe Photoshop CS2, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXpress, Macromedia, Painter IX, Keynotes, QuickTime, plus a few other smaller applications.