I had a lot of fun playing with this little ducky. I love his worn look and am really happy with how the edit came out.
Here are my steps …
- Levels – set white and black points. Adjusted input and output levels until they “looked” right.
- Duplicated background layer and used high pass filter.
- New adjustment layer – curves.
- Merged all layers.
- Duplicated background layer and applied Gaussian Blur.
- New adjustment layer – levels. Set white and black points. Tweaked RGB.
- New adjustment layer – brightness/contrast.
- New adjustment layer – color balance.
- Merged all layers.
Then I followed Ashley’s instructions this week for adding sun flare with a few tweaks…
- Created 3 duplicate layers of the background layer and renamed each starting from the bottom: lens flare, lighten and contrast.
- Selected the contrast layer. Changed the blending mode to soft light and lowered opacity to 70%.
- Selected the lighten layer. Changed the blending mode to screen and lowered opacity to 50%.
- Selected the lens flare layer. Filter>Render>Lens Flare. I tried the different types of lens flare options and ended up with 105mm Prime at 100%. I lowered the layer opacity to 75%.
- Selected the lighten layer. Added a new adjustment layer – levels. Adjusted the input and output levels slightly. Lowered the layer opacity to 78%.
- Selected the contrast layer. Added a new adjustment layer – photo filter. Applied warming filter 81 at 25% density. Checked preserve luminosity.
- Added a solid fill layer using color #F4F6DF. Blending mode soft light. Layer opacity 9%.
- Duplicated the solid fill layer. Changed the blending mode to screen and lowered the layer opacity to 4%.
- Merged all layers.
Finally I followed Ashley’s steps from last week regarding sharpening to improve my image for the web. Here’s the final edit:
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