1st try at Orton Effect

[Abiciriderback]

Was reading about the Orton Effect yesterday decided to give it a try any don't know if I like it or not the water is really blown out but even in original it is blown out as well. Any CC, feedback, suggestion appreciated.
Thanks for looking

Ray Still

[caleb]

This works really well on this shot. I don't like the blown out water, but what are you going to do Thanks for posting this and the effect's name so I could look it up

[PRB]

Most impressive!!! I would clone the trees in the upper right corner such that there would be no distracting white background sky showing through but, that's just my preference.

Here's what I found on this particular technique and it sounds like a bit of work but, could be fun too!

Here is the step-by-step recipe for making Orton images in Photoshop:

1. Open any image you wish to try the technique on. Make a duplicate of the image (Image>Duplicate). Close the original image.

2. Lighten the image as follows: Image>Apply Image… then in the dialog box that comes up change the bending mode to “Screen” and the Opacity to 100%. This will give you an appropriately overexposed image.

3. Duplicate this overexposed image (Image>Duplicate).

4. Blur this second image (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur… and in the dialog box use a Radius setting of 15 to 50 pixels – the higher the pixel setting the blurrier the photo and the more ‘painterly’ the image… but you can go too far!). Experiment with different settings, for my tastes and for the size of my digital files (50-100 megabytes) a radius of about 25 pixels works perfect.

5. Now select the move tool from the Photoshop tool bar (or just press “v” on your keyboard for quicker access to the move tool). Hold down the “shift” key and use your mouse to drag and drop the blurry image onto the sharp one (don’t let go of the shift key until after you release the mouse button or the images won’t be in perfect alignment).

6. Bring up the layers palette in Photoshop (F7 is the keyboard shortcut). Under the word “Layers” in the layers palette will be a menu box of blending modes. Change the blending mode from “normal” to “multiply”.

7. Now “flatten’ the two layers by pressing “CTRL+E” or by clicking on the sideways triangle in the layers palette to select ‘flatten image’.

There, you now have an Orton image - if you like your new masterpiece save the file!
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I think I might give this a try---:thumbsup:

Thanks for sharing this with us.

[Don Schaeffer]

I usually don't like Oerton effect pictures. But this one is a refreshing variation on an old waterfall theme. It really works imo.

[retroactiv]

I didn't know what the Orton Effect was until I read up on it, and figured out that I have done it before also, in fact I'm going to post a photo later of a waterfall of all things that uses it and I didn't even know I was doing it. Great job, this shot looks a lot better than mine, BRAVO

[Abiciriderback]

Thanks guys/gals for the comments lots of fun playing around so many different methods techniques. Below is a link to the step by step method I used for the Orton Effect basically the same as posted above but maybe a little simpler.

Ray Still

http://pcin.net/update/2006/11/01/th...p-of-the-week/

[Didache]

A few years ago I did quite a lot of experimenting with the Orton Effect .. it doesn't work with everything, but seems especially good with greens and reds.

Here are a few of mine from those days:

http://www.mikedalesphotography.co.uk/photo1183637.html

http://www.mikedalesphotography.co.uk/photo1183638.html

and

http://www.mikedalesphotography.co.uk/photo1183181.html

Cheers
Mike

[shootme]

Wow nice effect, I didn't know what it was till I went to critique this, which obviously I can't do. Very nice. I'll have to try it some day when I actually know how to post process images, beyond a simple touch-up. education all. S

[shootme]

A few years ago I did quite a lot of experimenting with the Orton Effect .. it doesn't work with everything, but seems especially good with greens and reds.

Here are a few of mine from those days:

http://www.mikedalesphotography.co.uk/photo1183637.html

http://www.mikedalesphotography.co.uk/photo1183638.html

and

http://www.mikedalesphotography.co.uk/photo1183181.html

Cheers
Mike

Mike nice work, thanks for sharing. S

[Former Best Buy Employee]

I personally love this image, its something that has a calming effect on me.

[tsanchez012]

I love orton effect and would use it on everything (if it was redundant after a while!) Although I have photoshop and tend to use it a lot - I have found that using picnik for special effects (like orton, holga.. etc) works pretty well too.