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Posted on 01/11/19 10:28:02 AM

tooquilos
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Re: Challenge 779: The carousel horse

Thank you Steve. All my back and knee issues would be healed if I had one of those staircases! Here is the original image of it.

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Posted on 01/11/19 10:49:04 AM

DavidMac
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Godiva

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.......... and thought, hell, nobody, but nobody is going to notice that!

But Mr C always does!!

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Posted on 01/11/19 11:12:18 AM

Steve Caplin
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Re: Challenge 779: The carousel horse

DavidMac wrote:
The curve tip is great. Works perfectly. However I am puzzled by the first line. I think you do have to start by making the layer to be metalised black and white. It's exactly what you do in your own tutorial. You got me a bit baffled there Steve.

My point was that you don't always need to make the base image black and white first - setting the Adjustment Layer to Luminosity does the trick, and it's useful if you want to retain the original colours.

Posted on 01/11/19 11:26:03 AM

Frank
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Re: Challenge 779: The carousel horse

Thanks Steve, the least of my worries were the clouds and I tried to time the dust right -- good points - will keep on trucking .
Again nice entries everyone.

Posted on 01/11/19 2:41:21 PM

DavidMac
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Re: Challenge 779: The carousel horse

Steve Caplin wrote:

Did a quick play with Luminosity. If you start from monochrome you get metal. If you start from colour it works beautifully - but you don't really get metal. You get a finish more like a metallic car paint or coloured pearl. It's actually rather beautiful and a very useful technique to know.

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Posted on 01/11/19 3:27:11 PM

lwc
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Re: Challenge 779: The carousel horse

Steve Caplin wrote:

...rippling horses’s mane that really gets my vote.

Thanks Steve.

Posted on 01/11/19 4:04:51 PM

Eva Roth
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