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Best viewed fully zoomed to see the Layers Panel and the Channels Panel.
Generally, the first thing I do is create luminosity based alpha channels in the Channels Panel, using information from Tony Kuyper's tutorials. These allow self feathered selections to be made based on luminosity. There are a series of channels based on the lighter pixels and a series based on the darker pixels. By intersecting and subtracting these channels one can apply edits based on a zone system if one wanted.
In the Layers Panel, above the background is a dodge/burn layer. I've been using a layer filled with 50% grey, set to soft light blend mode. When fully zoomed you might see that there is a quite intricate painting in black in that layer. I had clicked on one of the darks series channels to load it as a selection and painted through it with reduced flow black to gradually build up the darkening of just the black areas of tree shadow in the image.
Above that layer is a blank layer set to overlay blend mode in which I painted reduced flow white paint to gradually build up highlights. You can see that it has a mask. I had clicked on one of the lights channels to select it, then clicked on the add layer mask button. A mask was created that constrains the painting I'd done on that layer to only the lighter portions of the image. I then reduced the opacity of the mask a bit.
Above that is a high pass filter applied to a merged up copy of the image, and that layer had been changed to a smart object. This allows one to go back and make changes to filters that have been applied to that layer. I used the high pass filter quite strongly, set to soft light blend mode. Then clicking on a darks channel, I clicked on create a mask button and this constrains the high pass filtering to only the dark pixels. This helps avoid halo-ing from over sharpening.
At this point, the image was pretty sharp, and I liked it, but I was wanting to try to create the effect of the hipstamatic Tinto 1884 lens. When using that lens, certain portions of the image are sharp, and other areas are blurred. The problem is that the areas are highly variable and one never knows just what will be sharp or blurred.
So above the high pass layer I merged up everything to a new layer, then copied it. The lower one I labeled sharp and set it to screen blend mode. The upper one was labeled blur and set to multiply blend mode. A gaussian blur was applied to that layer. This combination creates a Orton sort of effect. A curves adjustment layer was added above those two to lighten the effect a bit. Then all three were put in a group and a white mask was added. I then painted black on the mask to get rid of the Ortonish effect from certain parts of the image, and let the sharpened detail from below show through.
So I was able to create an image that looks as if it had been shot with the hipstamatic Tinto 1884 lens, but assure that the stuff I wanted sharp, actually is!
This is a screenshot from the latest warning of the Bureau of Meteorology showing the current position and predicted tracking of Tropical Cyclone Alfred which is off the southern Queensland coast, and you might say, inexplicably is predicted to make a sharp right hand turn towards the coast off the South East Queensland or Northern New South Wales. We are now all on alert.
What it's come all the way from way out in the Coral Sea, down the coast and then it decides to tour the Outback by turning west at this spot!!! That's Brisbane right under the last 2.
Cyclones usually impact North Queensland and its large cities with devastating results and also hit northern Western Australia. Equivalent to the Northern Hemisphere's Hurricanes and Typhoons they are utterly frightening with their terrible winds, flooding and untold destruction. So now we will be waiting over the next week to see what Alfred does.
(Screenshot, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Sunday 2 March 2025)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone
Screenshot of SuperNotecard by Mindola Software, a virtual index card application for writers.
From the blog post SuperNotecard to the Rescue!