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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 284417" data-attributes="member: 9240">Remember, farted out edits are a part of keeping your system regular, so there's a lot of fiber and dietary regulation going into this stuff.&nbsp; The real key to getting sleep is knowing how soon to give up on an image that won't turn into something.&nbsp; The rest is just practice.&nbsp; The last one was just a whim - open the two photos as layers in Photoshop and then use a great shortcut I learned...<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Highlight the top layer </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Click on the Move tool </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">Hold down the Shift key and us '+' and '-' to move through the Layer Blend Modes </li>
</ol>Once you find something that works, play with the opacity until it's close and then flatten (or create a new layer from visible layers) and edit.&nbsp; With this one it was 100% Exclusion blend, which made it look like a negative, so I applied an Invert adjustment and then adjusted contrast.&nbsp; Nothing I ever would have thought to do, but once it's in front of me, I can see where I want to take it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 284417, member: 9240"] Remember, [I]farted out edits[/I] are a part of keeping your system [I]regular[/I], so there's a lot of fiber and dietary regulation going into this stuff. The real key to getting sleep is knowing how soon to give up on an image that won't turn into something. The rest is just practice. The last one was just a whim - open the two photos as layers in Photoshop and then use a great shortcut I learned... [LIST=1] [*]Highlight the top layer [*]Click on the Move tool [*]Hold down the Shift key and us '+' and '-' to move through the Layer Blend Modes [/LIST] Once you find something that works, play with the opacity until it's close and then flatten (or create a new layer from visible layers) and edit. With this one it was 100% Exclusion blend, which made it look like a negative, so I applied an Invert adjustment and then adjusted contrast. Nothing I ever would have [I]thought[/I] to do, but once it's in front of me, I can see where I want to take it. [/QUOTE]

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