Graphic-style florals
Technique Tuesday!
Floral images are often great subjects to play around with in Photoshop and other image-editing software. Just when you think that everything has been done with a flower that can possibly be done, you find some new digital tricks that you’ve not thought of before.
Although I like “plain old plain old” flower photos, I’m always tempted to see what else I can do with them. Here’s one such experiment:
- Crop small piece of image and increase resolution to slightly pixilate
- Boost contrast using levels
- Add grain. Layer>new layer>>overlay mode, check fill
- Filter>Noise>Add noise>>amount 100%, gaussian distribution, check monochromatic
- Blur the shadows. Copy the layer, add gaussian blur 5, darken mode
- Recover some detail in lights. Double click layer to open dialog box> move white slider below “This layer”
- Flatten layers
- Add edge burning. New layer, large soft brush with black, adjust opacity.
- Flatten layers again
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15 opinions for Graphic-style florals
Eileen
Aug 26, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Wow, what a difference! That’s beautiful Cyndi.
It seems paradoxical that you’ve taken away detail (with noise and blur), but it makes the photo pop.
Cyndi
Aug 26, 2008 at 1:55 pm
It’s funny how removing extra stuff can make such a difference. Thanks, Eileen!
Timaree (freebird)
Aug 26, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I couldn’t see the difference at first with the pictures not being side by side but after reading the comment I went back and let my eyes float over the pictures. The flowers do pop more. It does make a more interesting picture.
Cyndi L
Aug 27, 2008 at 9:16 am
It’s so much more obvious when you see prints of them both. The computer resolution is low enough that a lot of the detail in the original “before” is lost anyway, so it’s harder to see the contrast with the “after”.
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Peggy
Aug 29, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I think you could also do some spooky techniques to photos for Halloween, yes?
Cyndi
Aug 29, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Oooooo, yeah!
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Mary Emma Allen
Sep 3, 2008 at 8:08 am
Amazing what one can do nowadays with computers and computer art. Lovely work.
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