Personally, I prefer this photo in colour. I lamented the loss of those lovely rich browns and greens.
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1) Opened a my photo in Photoshop, duplicated it, cropped it, then duplicated the layer.
2) Looked at the channels tab (in the layer palette), saw which needed to be bumped up by selecting either the red, blue, green and deselecting RGB (click on the little eyes to select and deselect a layer)
3) Added an adjustment layer > and selected Channel mixer. Selected monochrome and moved the red, blue and green sliders until I was happy.
4) Added an adjustment layer and selected levels. Played around with the top slider to intensify the black and white
5) Selected the stalk to bring out the texture. Added an adjustment layer - levels - and pulled black over quite a distance
6) Selected the cap to bring out the white flecks. Same process as above, except bringing the right hand white slider over more
7) I had lost detail in the underside of the cap, so I selected that next. Added adjustment layer - levels again. This time, I pulled the black slider on the lower sliding thingamebob to the right to lighten it. That brought out its existing texture.
8) I wanted the mushroom to stand out without interference from the wood texture, so I merged the image, duplicated the layer, applied gaussian blur (20), then changed the layer blend to soft light. I didn't want to lose the texture in the mushroom, so I selectively erased using various opacities in my eraser tool.
I took a screenshot of my layer palette to make the whole thing at least halfway more understandable....
And here is the final product for disection ; )
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2) Looked at the channels tab (in the layer palette), saw which needed to be bumped up by selecting either the red, blue, green and deselecting RGB (click on the little eyes to select and deselect a layer)
3) Added an adjustment layer > and selected Channel mixer. Selected monochrome and moved the red, blue and green sliders until I was happy.
4) Added an adjustment layer and selected levels. Played around with the top slider to intensify the black and white
5) Selected the stalk to bring out the texture. Added an adjustment layer - levels - and pulled black over quite a distance
6) Selected the cap to bring out the white flecks. Same process as above, except bringing the right hand white slider over more
7) I had lost detail in the underside of the cap, so I selected that next. Added adjustment layer - levels again. This time, I pulled the black slider on the lower sliding thingamebob to the right to lighten it. That brought out its existing texture.
8) I wanted the mushroom to stand out without interference from the wood texture, so I merged the image, duplicated the layer, applied gaussian blur (20), then changed the layer blend to soft light. I didn't want to lose the texture in the mushroom, so I selectively erased using various opacities in my eraser tool.
I took a screenshot of my layer palette to make the whole thing at least halfway more understandable....
And here is the final product for disection ; )
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