My latest tutorial was a request and a very fun tutorial to do for me. I always loved the effect of black and
white infrared photography, and for that matter black and white photography so when I was asked to try and recreate the infrared effect I jumped right on it.
You can see that tutorial here.
Here's a quick and easy effect to add to your photograph to give it the look it was painted on wood. Playing with the
contrast can give quite a few different pleasing effects. You may want yours to look more weathered than mine by increasing the brightness a
little. If you want to follow along click on the thumbnails below to go to the larger size images and copy and paste them into PhotoFiltre.
1) Open up the 2 images in PhotoFiltre. Select the Wood Texture Image:
Menu = Image
/ Duplicate
2) Select the Wood Texture Duplicate:
Menu = Adjust / Negative
Menu = Color / Grayscale
Menu = Edit / Copy
After you Copy the Duplicated image with the Negative and Grayscale Effects you can delete it if you want.
3) Select the Image of the woman:
Menu = Edit / Paste Special / Assemble
Assemble Clipboard data at = Right
Your image should now look like mine above.
4) Menu = Edit / Copy
5) Select your original Wood Texture Image:
Menu = Edit / Paste Special / Image With Linked Mask
Your Image should look like mine to the right.
6) Menu = Adjust / Brightness and Contrast. Now adjust the Brightness and Contrast until you have a color balance you like.
I'm adjusting the Contrast to 20.
