a Stronger Contrast effect
Posted 10 months, 11 days ago by Graffi | | 430 views | Technorati
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An adjustable contrast effect - for a gritty urban look, or even to help create the Beowulf movie look.
This image is especially effective on an image that already has a dark background. It works by selecting the RGB values, duplicating them, and multiplying them, while creating an inverted value for a lighter overlay to accent shadows. In other words, shadows are darker and highlights are lighter - got it?
You can also run the effect twice for more intensity and grittiness. In the second example, I simply removed the action-created Light layer and ran the action again, changing the Contrast Lighten layer’s blend mode to Lighten.
Download it and experiment with it. I’ve found several different ways to use the layers to get interesting results with changing the opacity level and blend modes - and even the stack order - of the resulting layers.
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Very cool action. Thanks Graffi.
John
Keep up the good work! Thanks…