Nice Photo Effect...

I came up with this pretty nice and simple effect while playing around in Photoshop. It adds a nice, smooth and mysterious atmosphere to the image.

It can also be used to make something nice out of a image which was badly damaged by jpeg compression, but, it does not work well with all images. I've seen this effect work wonders on an image and screw others.

This technique works better with a portait (human subject) with the complete subject.

1) First make 2 copies of your background (original) images. Hide the one on the top.

2) Select the second layer (first copy) and apply a gaussian blur to it (I used something like 15 for screen images, if you wish to print it, use something a lot bigger). Your image should be really blurry where no details are visible. Don't worry, the details will be back soon.

3) Select the third layer (second copy) and desaturate it...

4) On the grayed layer change the blending mode from normal to Soft Light (you could experiment with other modes as well). You can play around with the Levels if you have to.

This way the details will come back but the blur will now give a really nice mood to the image...

Optional: If you want even more details to come back then simply double the grayed layer (and play with opacity or change the blending mode from Soft Light to Hard Light.)

Changing the value of the blur will change the intensity of the effect.

And voila... I hope it looks nice.

Give me comments about this plz.

Sheeeesh...could you possibly make a few more spelling mistakes?

Seriously...if I want to pass along a technique, I'd certainly want to take the time to read and fix stuff like that before I hit the "Submit" button.

But, then, that's just me.....

Yeah I dislike typos as well. I have a pretty nice image in my head of how it would come out, seems usable.

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I came up with this pretty nice and simple effect while playing around in Photoshop. It adds a nice, smooth and mysterious atmosphere to the image.

It can also be used to make something nice out of a image which was badly damaged by jpeg compression, but, it does not work well with all images. I've seen this effect work wonders on an image and screw others.

This technique works better with a portait (human subject) with the complete subject.

1) First make 2 copies of your background (original) images. Hide the one on the top.

2) Select the second layer (first copy) and apply a gaussian blur to it (I used something like 15 for screen images, if you wish to print it, use something a lot bigger). Your image should be really blurry where no details are visible. Don't worry, the details will be back soon.

3) Select the third layer (second copy) and desaturate it...

4) On the grayed layer change the blending mode from normal to Soft Light (you could experiment with other modes as well). You can play around with the Levels if you have to.

This way the details will come back but the blur will now give a really nice mood to the image...

Optional: If you want even more details to come back then simply double the grayed layer (and play with opacity or change the blending mode from Soft Light to Hard Light.)

Changing the value of the blur will change the intensity of the effect.

And voila... I hope it looks nice.

Give me comments about this plz.
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Utopian, does µ23 actually mean utopian23? I thought µ stood for micrometer. :P

Originally posted by !mo0chan!
Utopian, does µ23 actually mean utopian23? I thought µ stood for micrometer. :P

Hmm...noone's ever asked me that before. I just figured everyone would understand that I was using the "µ" symbol simply as a down-n-dirty stlyized letter, without needing to use a raster image.

I thought a you |_337 kids would understand that!

:D

I came in here after delisk edited the post. I have said something like that to him also in an other post. But I don't know how it looked in this one before he edited it. Nice to see that he did, though. Keep up the good typing...

Any sample work you'd like us to see?

hey cut him some slack he's from Canada LOL

hummm is that how you spell it??? ha ha

To Delisk , that's also wat I'm looking for , thanks alot

thanx buddy.. but could you give us a sample!

I really like this effect, and I've used it quite a few times before.
To make it more interesting, try bluring the colour layer half what you want, adding some overlayed noise (on a separate layer), then merge the layers and motion blur it.
Try the same kind of thing with radial blur (zoom) and the distort filters when set to subtle values.