What’s Your Play? no. 70

Yeah! Another fall foliage shot to work with! There’s not enough of those at LifeSignatures!

This is the before photo by Laura at Dolcepics.

And here is my play.

Shortcuts are on a PC and photo editing application is Photoshop CS2.

What I did:

1) Made two duplicate layers. (Ctrl J two times)
2) Made changed one layer to Soft Light.
3) Made other layer to Screen, 75% (I think).
4) Merged layers.
5) Created fill/adjustment layer (click the little moon at the bottom of the layers palette).
6) Set layer to Hue/Saturation.
7) Set Hue = 0, Saturation = +5, Lightness = 0.
I now used a texture that Michelle of My Two Seasons linked to on iHeartfaces…
9) Place the texture on top of the image.
10) Set layer to Overlay (play with the opacity, I forgot my setting.)
11) Duplicate texture layer. (I’m going to place the texture on again.)
12) Set texture layer to Multiply. (Again, play with the opacity.)
13) It was grainy so I ran TRA’s Smoothomatic action.

Voila, I hope the steps were helpful at least in learning how to play with different adjustment layers. To me, they are the fastest way to edit photos besides using actions. Many times I’ll just “play” and won’t remember the steps. This is no exception so I urge you to try it for yourself. It’s fun!