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09-JUL-2004

7/9/04 - Old Wood (or, If it's Friday...)

Germantown, MD

Guess what I found on a wooden rail near my house today?
At least it's better than having your name carved on a bathroom wall.

PS Work...
Emboss portrait image (with extra depth and correct light angle);
Free Transform (Enlarge & rotate), convert to monochrome.
Add as layer to wooden rail image, color dodge layer blending, reduce opacity.
Add mat and frame.


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Gayle P. Clement05-Aug-2004 22:20
This is excellent work, Dennis. Thank you for the time you took to explain your process.
Linda Alstead14-Jul-2004 10:42
yep - this is indeed a cool thing
virginiacoastline12-Jul-2004 13:26
This is sooooo cool . .cuz it LOOKs as tho you carved it . .very good use of ps layers . ..waaay cool!!
Dennis Steinauer12-Jul-2004 05:02
Actually, the PS work wasn't that big a deal -- I probably just made it sound like it. I had the head shot already. It was taken some time ago with my Oly 2020Z, so the resolution was marginal. So I just used the free transform to stretch and rotate it to fit the wood rail image. The carved look just took an emboss with the light direction adjusted and a slight increase in the depth. Then I fiddled with the channel mixer to eliminate most of the color - probably could have just desaturated it. Then the key thing was to change the blending mode (I used color burn, I think, but others probably would have worked equally well) and opacity of the face image so it allowed the wood texture to show through and thus the whole thing to looked carved in.

Hmmm... Now I've made it look tough again. Really, it probably didn't take as long to do as it's taken to explain it.
brother_mark12-Jul-2004 03:53
Wow, what a lot of computer work. Had me fooled though. Excellent.
Guest 11-Jul-2004 22:23
I want to do that in a piece of wood noW!
Guest 11-Jul-2004 00:41
Excellent PS work... wonderful idea!
Jill10-Jul-2004 20:04
ok further study of PS needed. brilliant Dennis.

in answer to your question:picnic table. thanks for coming by.
Karen Leaf10-Jul-2004 04:55
Wow, this is cool. Instead of complimenting you on your wood carving skills, I'll substitiute PS!
jude09-Jul-2004 23:38
HOLY COW! you creaitve man you! Very impressive.. !
Guest 09-Jul-2004 20:33
Well done and oh so creative. Thanks for posting the technique.
Guest 09-Jul-2004 19:14
Nice effect! very different indeed!
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