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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 524559" data-attributes="member: 9240">There's been some discussion about how I did the track image elsewhere so I thought I'd share that here as well.&nbsp; Pretty straight forward Ps editing.&nbsp; If Photoshop is &quot;complicated&quot; it's not because it's hard to use as much as there are so many basic tools you need to learn.&nbsp; Once you know them, it's pretty simple.Here's the original IR image...[ATTACH]194560[/ATTACH]...which I light adjusted in Lr and then shot it to Ps and applied my own IR Black &amp; White conversion preset that pretty much gave me the background layer (I will tweak the color filter slider a bit to finish each image).&nbsp; Here's the Ps layer panel for the rest of it...[ATTACH]194562[/ATTACH]The next layer is from Topaz Impression (preset name included, though I tweaked the vignette effect in the app) that I wanted to add to the dreamy look, which I partially masked on the tracks and the horizon to maintain a sense of reality (Normal blend mode).&nbsp; After that is a layer with a basic sunrise/sunset image added using a Color blend mode.&nbsp; I then used a layer mask to paint out everything I didn't want.&nbsp; The first Hue/Saturation layer is tied to the sunrise image so I could tweak the colors of that image only.&nbsp; The second was to tweak the final image.&nbsp; I then merged them in Layer 3 (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E flattens to a new layer) and did some minor dodging, burning and removed the more distracting power lines on the left.&nbsp; Done.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 524559, member: 9240"] There's been some discussion about how I did the track image elsewhere so I thought I'd share that here as well. Pretty straight forward Ps editing. If Photoshop is "complicated" it's not because it's hard to use as much as there are so many basic tools you need to learn. Once you know them, it's pretty simple. Here's the original IR image... [ATTACH=CONFIG]194560._xfImport[/ATTACH] ...which I light adjusted in Lr and then shot it to Ps and applied my own IR Black & White conversion preset that pretty much gave me the background layer (I will tweak the color filter slider a bit to finish each image). Here's the Ps layer panel for the rest of it... [ATTACH=CONFIG]194562._xfImport[/ATTACH] The next layer is from Topaz Impression (preset name included, though I tweaked the vignette effect in the app) that I wanted to add to the dreamy look, which I partially masked on the tracks and the horizon to maintain a sense of reality (Normal blend mode). After that is a layer with a basic sunrise/sunset image added using a Color blend mode. I then used a layer mask to paint out everything I didn't want. The first Hue/Saturation layer is tied to the sunrise image so I could tweak the colors of that image only. The second was to tweak the final image. I then merged them in Layer 3 (Ctrl-Alt-Shift-E flattens to a new layer) and did some minor dodging, burning and removed the more distracting power lines on the left. Done. [/QUOTE]

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