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04-MAR-2006 Christine Hudnall

Rolling, rolling, rolling

Saw these rolls of hay as I was driving into Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park and just knew what I wanted to do with them.

With the first version I converted it non-destructively to black & white using adjustment layers.

Then I decided that I wanted to practice colorizing.

So, I upped it to 16bits, duped background, changed the hue to blue (colorized) and added mask. Changed blend mode to color and then did that 3 more times, changing layer names as I went.
Blue, green, red, gold, merging all visible layers at this point.

For more details as to Primary Colorizing, see wonderful tutorial at: (this is the print version, which is easier to follow)

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161015&print=1

I then used the High Pass method for sharpening:
Duplicate layer and desaturate.
Change layer mode to Soft Light.
Apply High Pass Filter (Filter > Other > High Pass), used low setting - 1.2

Flattened image, cropped a little and resized

Canon EOS 300D Digital Rebel
1/160s f/9.0 at 55.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Scott 14-Mar-2006 22:25
Thats a pretty neat picture there Christine. At first I thought I was looking logs, not hay