It’s amazing what Photoshop can do in skilled hands.
Before:
vs.
After:
Best appreciated in large format.
If you understand Photoshop at all, here’s what was done:
1- Go into LAB mode.
2- Duplicate background.
3- Use “smart blur” and “surface blur” at different settings on each channel to get rid of the noise. You will be losing details.
4- Go back to RGB mode.
5- Adjust the opacity of the blurred layer to bring back some details from the original. You can even use the eraser to work on problem areas.
6- Create two “Photo Filter” layers.
7- Set one of these two adjustment layers to “Overlay.” This will give you deeper shadows and change colors all at once.
8- Play with the opacity of the two adjustment layers.
9- Duplicate the blue area from the towers’ tips.
10- Use “Gaussian Blur” on this new layer. The towers and the sky are glowing but it’s too much.
11- Change opacity. Now it’s better and more natural.
12- Add another adjustment layer, this time it will be “Curves.”
13- Make a slight S curve.
14- Flatten
15- Sharpen
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Yea..Photoshop is an amazing piece of software.
Like this guy’s 15,000 layered .psd file!
http://www.bertmonroy.com/fineart/text/fineart_damen.htm
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Yeah layering seems to be the way to go for making techno music (although it may not be called layering, but can’t wait to get my hands on a program like that), animation and doing drawings. Make a mistake in a program without layering like Microsoft Paint and you’re there for another half an hour or so. But with layering, it’s so much faster and easier.
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Some say you could also play with Blend If sliders but they’re more headache related. LoL!
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were u the angmoh who was lying on the floor of suria to take that pic? do u notice that alot of ppl look up when they goto the twin towers area? ROFL
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eztuts: Yah that guy is truly awesome!
JC: Yeah it’s the same way for most creation processes as then it’s much easy to edit a single drum loop in the music rather than mix everything again, same for graphics, engineering design etc.
lex: Nah wasn’t me, just crouched next to a lamppost to stay steady.