Using a color photograph taken of a covered bridge last Fall, I converted it to black and white with the Photo Effects, Tint Black and White. I then decided that to have some of the color return would enhance the scene. To do that, I reduced the Opacity of the Tint layer to 85%. The second photograph is of the result I obtained.
Black and White Conversion
Bring back some color is just so ever slight.
Filters & Masks
This was an opportunity for some fun experimenting, as I am prone to do. I start with a couple of photographs take viewing parts of the Grand Tetons Mountains.
The First Original
First the High Pass & Ink Outline Filters Followed
By the Mask Action & Gradient
The Gradient was used in the Mask to bring back color and detail in the top of the photograph.
A Second Original
Same as Above with the Addition of the Conté Crayon Filter
Two Mask Were Employed to Get the Effect Shown
I feel this has some of the charactertics of a Japanese woodblock print.
Autumn Leaves
This has a layer below the leaves with the Craquelure texture, 13, 6, 8 settings, applied. To tone down the brightness, there is a Background layer of the green that appears in the border. The texture layer has a slight Gaussian blur of 1 pixel and the opacity reduced to 65%.
Third Party Actions
Grant's Tools
Remarkable difference between the original shown below---
---- and corrected with Grant's Tools, Curves
My Photograph with Text Filled from a Second Photograph
The Same Photograph as Background, Panosfx_Fan Action
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