Hey kids . . . It's Phun Phriday! . . With your host Scott. We're going to have some fun today and take a straight forward day time photo and turn it into an eerie night photo using Photoshop. You may remember a few weeks back I posted one called Difference. In that one I had originally taken two Identical photos except one was totally out of focus, and both were quite overexposed. I then blended the two using the "difference" blending mode.
After getting back from Oregon I was wishing I had done something like that with this light house, but I didn't so I decided to make my own. First step was to take the original photo - shown below - and put it through both the lens blur filter and the gausian blur filter and just blur the heck out of it. Next I took the original and laid it over top of the blurred image and again use the "difference" blend mode. The top (original) is at about 70% opacity. Oh, and since I had made a night shot out of it I did turn on the light in the top of the lighthouse. I did not overexpose the images like I did in the meadow shot from a few weeks ago. I may have to try that and see what happens, but of course the meadow shot from a few weeks ago was overexposed - and blurred - in the camera, not in photoshop.
Here's the original - SOOC.
Well kids, I hope you had PHUN today, and you know the deal - Have you done something outside of the box recently? We'd love to see it. Just leave a link to it in your comment. If not, I hope you'll feel free to comment anyway.
Don't be shy - leave a comment or email me. I look forward to hearing from you!
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15 comments:
Eerie is right! At first sight, I was like....how the hell! What a fun technique...will try it this weekend. Thanks for the tip and yes....you started our Friday in a super Phun way!
Ficou bem legal! Gostei!
Beijos.
Good fun - looks really spooky.
The lighthouse looks like it is straight out of a scary movie! Good job!
Aw shucks - I forgot to get something ready for Phun Phriday! Hopefully next week!
Like this - it's kinda ghosty in a non scary way!! ;o)
I really enjoyed this Phun Phriday post. I like what you've created here. I'm not sure I have the software to do this, but I'm going to investigate what I can do.
Oooh....it is a ghostly looking lighthouse after the very clever transformation. I'm liking it Scott! It could be a haunted light house!
Hey Scott...I post a Phun Phriday shot too ... hope you like it!
Yes! this is new art, I think so too.
It's very cool!
Great work on this one Scott! I really like how everything glows in the picture - almost surreal. What a phun transformation from the original.
I finally managed to join Phun Phriday.
Once again, thank you for the technique description and the before photo. Nice effect you created!
Wow, you're a genius when it comes to photoshop and taking the photos! I love the eerie looking lighthouse, wonderful work Scott! None of what you said made any sense to me about what you did in photoshop, that program confuses the heck right out of me! All in due time I'll learn all of this high tech stuff but by then it's most likely going to be obsolete! lol
Have a fantastic weekend!
It's almost a little spookie. But I love what you've done.
Question I work with CS4 a little some times (I believe it's hard to explore everything that it has to offer) and my question to you is do you type your name at the bottom every single time over and over again or do you use some sort of watermark. I've been fooling around with watermarks and try making one with a little help on utube but I can't seem to figure it out. If you have a simple short cute for me it'll be great.
Hugs D.
awesome effect, i'll give this technique a try definitely.
when i first saw it i thought it was a chalk drawing. awesome effects scott. see you next month.
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