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_RV_    says:

I'm observing that many people can't manage to achieve a good final result for the Orton Effect and are uploading photos to this group that don't look as if they had the OE at all.

Here you can see a very easy tutorial in seven steps, that will give your photos the real OE looks.

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't go too far!). Experiment with different settings, for my tastes 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
Originally posted at 10:12PM, 25 June 2008 PDT (permalink)
_RV_ edited this topic 48 months ago.