Orton Effect

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I really like the Orton Effect on certain landscape images .. has a dreamy feel I like .. looking for a link that walks me through the procedure .. or any other thoughts as to achieving the effect .. Have CS 4 .. thanks don

pathfinder

Google still works... Orton Effect

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Orton+effect&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8


I guess I have used this for some time without aware of its having a name... Gaussian blur layer in Overlay blending mode





Link with videos.
http://www.squidoo.com/orton

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Ortin
Appreciate the reply .. very helpful info ... didn't realize that Andre Gallant was instrumental in furthering the concept .. The Camera Club of Cape Cod Art Assoc hosted a workshop with him last June .. appreciate more what he was trying to convey in his "DreamScapes" message. . definitely use it in my work .. don

pathfinder

Glad to be of help.

Most of the links suggested using Multiply blending modes, but I find I may prefer Overlay blending or Softlight blending at times. Multiply gets pretty dark pretty quick at times. Of course you can do a curve to alter this as well, or a Blend iF change.

Michael Reichman has written about Gaussian blur overlays here - http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/gaussian.shtml

And another discussion on the Luminous Landscape by Gene Mitchell -- http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/glow.shtml

Anthony

I tried this technique for the first time today after reading this thread.

With the degree of Gaussian blur being a subjective element, I found it useful to make the layers into smart objects and thus retain the ability to refine the amount of blur in relation to the lightening of the top layer (via levels).

Thanks Pathfinder for useful way of enhancing images.

Anthony.

pathfinder

Anthony, I always suggest doing these kind of blending modes as adjustment layers, so that you can dial in the amount via the Opacity slider. But doing them as SMart Objects so that you can alter the Gaussian blur, independent of the Levels commands is even better I think.

Richard

pathfinder wrote: »

Most of the links suggested using Multiply blending modes, but I find I may prefer Overlay blending or Softlight blending at times. Multiply gets pretty dark pretty quick at times. Of course you can do a curve to alter this as well, or a Blend iF change.

Another way to tame overlay and multiply blending modes is to add a luminosity based mask to the adjustment layer. By varying the mask density and layer opacity, you can easily tweak the highlight and shadow effects independently. The inverted green channel often works well as a starting point, though that depends on the image. I use this method as a part of my standard workflow.