A Work in Progress: Pensive



This guide was made for entry:
Pensive
In Contest:
dragan effect


step 1 of 10

My own original photograph of my granddaughter.

Creation of Pensive: Step 1

step 2 of 10

Brightened with shadow/highlight and used the burn and dodge tool.

Creation of Pensive: Step 2

step 3 of 10

Bumped up the saturation just a bit.

Creation of Pensive: Step 3

step 4 of 10

Hue/saturation set to colorize with hue set to 36.

Creation of Pensive: Step 4

step 5 of 10

Set the hue/saturation layer to softlight and reduced opacity to 50%.

Creation of Pensive: Step 5

step 6 of 10

Desaturated image, used gaussian blur at 28 and set to invert.

Creation of Pensive: Step 6

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Desaturated image set to softlight and opacity reduced to 50%.

Creation of Pensive: Step 7

step 8 of 10

New layer above all previous layers. Used high pass filter set at 10.

Creation of Pensive: Step 8

step 9 of 10

Set high pass filter layer to softlight at 100%.

Creation of Pensive: Step 9

step 10 of 10

Darkened background and used layer mask to paint out background.

Creation of Pensive: Step 10

Final result

Creation of Pensive: Final Result

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