Orton Effect Thread -- Post yours here

[poker]

I noticed mention of the Orton Effect and looked it up. Pretty cool. It's a simple way to make things look dreamy in post.

Here are some current and past PR threads on it to save you the PR search:

Flowers

Orton Effect



"In camera" Orton Imagery

Orton Imagery Daffodils

Cabin in Winter

In a nut shell you need graphic software that uses layers (as far as I know).

Make a second layer of your image.

Apply a guassian blur to the top layer and make the radius extreme between 10-15 pixels.

Apply the blending option 'multiply' or 'screen' to that blurred layer.

You should end up with something interesting.

So far most examples I've seen are 'nature' by topic but I think it makes portraits interesting as well.

Why not share your samples here

[poker]

Before and after Orton Effect sample.

This is what I dream about.....

[Photo-John]

I dream of Tommy's - double chili cheese!

[Photo-John]

Thanks for giving me an excuse to play a little

Both of these ended up with a little extra something. The house photo has some layer masking so I could fine-tune and sort of paint in the effect where I wanted it.

The flowers have a second blurred layer with some selective layer masking.

[poker]

I dream of Tommy's - double chili cheese!

I had Tommy's Friday night but I ate it all before I took a picture of it.....that's always the case

[mjs1973]

Here's one of mine.



This thread has one of my first ever orton photos.

[Greg McCary]

This one was inspired by the Micheal Orton book that I bought when I first got into photography. In his book he would use a 300mm zoom lens to take flower pictures. I took this one with a 200mm lens. I was trying to come up with something different than your Home and Garden picture of a flower. Remember this is when I still used film, and was very much a rookie. I was also the rookie at PS so this is very much as the negative scanned.
Greg

[J-Dogg Productions]

hey manacsa heres a link to the tutorial for photoshop

http://www.pcin.net/update/index.php...p-of-the-week/

basically you have 1 layer duplicate and set the mode to screen then duplicate the screen layer set the mode to multiply and set a blur to the multiply layer. really pretty easy but has some cool effects. works good for sunsets or any color you want to bring out. i usually use that but leave out the blur just to get colors to pop more.

jay

[Photo-John]

Had to try Jay's recipe, too. This is fun! I see that the Screen and Multiply layer effects sort of balance each other out in terms of brightness.

You know I'm going to have to move this thread to the Digital Imaging forum. But I'll levae it here for a while because it will get more action on ViewFinder

[Chunk]

The first one here is an image I made some time ago. The second I just did tonite after reading your thread.
Here's the site that was referenced by mjs1973 (I think) when he posted one that he had made.
http://www.naturephotographers.net/a.../dw0106-1.html

In PScs I do
Image>Apply Image>Screen100%
Duplicate layer
Gaussian Blur 25 pixel radius (usually)
Change layer blending mode to multiply
Then you can change the layer opacity to control the effect.

EDIT: I look more closely at the rest of the thread and realized that what I wrote just duplicated what others had posted - sorry for that...I'll go to bed now...(after adding a couple more orton images)

[Tel]

Wow this is fun! Makes the picture darker, but still good.

[Didache]

What a fun thread this is! Maybe we should have more threads with experimental stuff like this?

Both these images were taken at Hampton Court last summer - Hampton Court, near London, was a royal palace from the time of Henry VIII up to the mid 1700s.

Cheers
Mike

[Chunk]

Wow this is fun! Makes the picture darker, but still good.

Are you doing the initial Image>Apply Image> using screen mode at 100% ? Without that step they turn out dark. Those violets will be really beautiful if lighter.

[readingr]

These are two I did last year or was it the year before.



This one I add some B&W conversion, Turned a layer negative...


This was straight


Roger

[poker]

Talk about bringing new life to old shots. I'm looking forward to printing some of my photos using this effect.

Nice photos everyone! :thumbsup:

[poker]

Roger, I like that b&w shot. The effect makes it look really classic.


Here is a before and after:

[readingr]

Forgot I did these in January, The originals were put up for critique

Roger

[Photo-John]

Are you doing the initial Image>Apply Image> using screen mode at 100% ? Without that step they turn out dark. Those violets will be really beautiful if lighter.

You can also make a levels adjustment layer after you create the layer effects. That will allow you to fine tune the brightness and even use masks in order to selectively lighten and darken parts of the image. masked adjustment layers are where the real power of Photoshop lies. They are where the actual "digital darkroom" tools that allow you to squeeze the most out of your images. I use masked adjustment layers on almost all of my photos.

[Tel]

Are you doing the initial Image>Apply Image> using screen mode at 100% ? Without that step they turn out dark. Those violets will be really beautiful if lighter.

I didnt read the whole thing. They were on Multiply.

I'll try em with screen soon.

[cr_mmurillo]

This is an excellent thread. Now I will not be able to go to sleep. Can't wait to shoot my friends wedding next week.

[livin4lax09]

Forgot I did these in January, The originals were put up for critique

Roger

roger,

that last one is a perfect example of how you can make or break a photo in PP. I remember the original was a little bland, but this one is awesome!

[Axle]

King Edward Hotel, Toronto, ON the Crystal Ballroom, unused since the 1950s.

First photo is of the ballroom itself - set for 'screen' mode
Second is of the elevator bank - set for 'multiply' mode

[cr_mmurillo]

Here are my before and after.

[Axle]

Okay, so I was experimenting a little with the Orton effect. Subject is again the Crystal Ballroom.

I duplicated the photo layer, then the bottom layer I desaturated the colours and inverted them. Then did a guassian blur (radius 15) on the top then set to multiply. Got an interesting effect.

[readingr]

roger,

that last one is a perfect example of how you can make or break a photo in PP. I remember the original was a little bland, but this one is awesome!

Brent,

Thanks, Your right. I wonder why I didn't put it up on my web site. It will be up there before bed time.

Work's a bit hectic at the moment so not much time for photography:cryin: . Haven't taken a pic since 25th Jan getting withdrawl symptoms and only sporadic commnents on the forum :mad2: :mad2: :mad2: .

Roger