K1TesseraEna wrote:
Great job Clouds!
This is as good as it could possibly get.
Looking at your gimp file I have a pretty good idea of what steps were taken except for the two layers.
Do you mind to share your skills? A tutorial (even mini-tutorial) would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!
Which two layers do you mean?
Well, from bottom up, the layers are:
- The original image
- A desaturated copy (Average)
- Channel Mixer output (R -100, G 200, B -100 to make plants very bright and everything else very dark) also with some levels applied, blend mode Overlay
- A duplicate of the above with the opacity reduced, since just one Overlay layer wasn't enough
- Another duplicate, contrast adjusted and blend mode Grain Merge
(All of this was to affect the contrast of the desaturated image, but I didn't just want to use the Channel Mixer result since it had clipped highlights and shadows)
- Yet another duplicate set to blend mode Lighten and a bit less than 100% opacity, to get that glow in the foliage but retain some highlight detail
- A gradient-mapped copy of the whole flattened image, set to Color blend mode to make the duo-tone effect