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mgroves — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:12:00 +0000

I have been working on my photo editing recently and have been learning a good bit from people like Brian Auer over at Epic Edits and Steve Paxton over at Paxton Prints. I have been attempting to replicate some of their editing techniques with some of my photographs, this is a work in progress.
Recently Brian posts an edit he did to a photography of a rusty old truck that I thought would apply to a photograph that I took a couple of months ago at Remlinger Farms. Remlinger Farm is this great place to take kids, especially in the fall. They have all kinds of rides and things to kids to explore. They also have a couple retired fire trucks for kids to play around on along with a old school bus.
This shot I chose to work with was something I took of one of the fire trucks headlights, since the paint is so weathered and old I thought it might make a good artistic shot.

Here is the processing I did to this photo:
1. RAW File from Camera – I decided not to edit this at all before I started processing this in Photoshop, I took this right out of the camera into Lightroom, then into Photoshop (Elements, I have not sprung for CS3).
2. Linear Light Layer – I created a new layer with 43% Opacity.
3. Black and White Adjustment – I created a new layer converted it to B&W with a 65% Opacity.
4. Adjusted the Saturation – As Brian did, I used a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to set the saturation to -50.
5. Warming Filter – I added a Photo Filter adjustment layer set to a Warming Filter (LBA) at 45%.
6. Sharpen – Lastly I added a Unsharp Mask at 86%, 2.0 pixels and a threshold of 0.
So as you can see from Brian's post not much of this is original on my part, in fact I am still learning what most of these adjustment do on their own. But I figure this is the best way to learn I don't think Brian would mind.

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