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6 Aug 2024 21:38:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: waves of stone  
From: EagleSun
Date: 12 Dec 2006 09:25:28
Message: <457ebbd8$1@news.povray.org>
"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message 
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> "EagleSun" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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>> ok.. for testing your photoshop.. try this........
>>
>> 1:  Make a copy of this and convert it to grayscale.
>>
>> 2:  Then with your gray copy, darken it, so that the maximum highlight 
>> value
>> is say... 96.
>
> You mean 96% or 96/255? I've made one of each.

Yeah, I mean 96/255...

>
>> 3:  Add the darkened gray copy to the original.  Well.. use A(1-B)+B
>> formula.
>
> Unfortunately photoshop doesn't use blends like "Add", let alone A(1-B)+B. 
> So I've had to use a multiply layer using the inverse of the greyscale (PS 
> doesn't seem to have an invert option so I did a difference with white), 
> with a "screen" layer that roughly looks additive.

Nice trick...

>
>> I'm curious to see the results.
>
> What were you hoping it would look like? All you've done is effectively 
> desaturate the brighter bits, which looks pretty dull.
>

Oh well... sometimes it works, sometimes not...  I did the same with an 
over-colored old image of Saturn, results looked quite recent, which kinda 
looked more realistic.  But sometimes it takes away from artistic effects.


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