I used the photo by Nancy Merill of Adams Memorial Shakespearean Theater donated and created for this for the March One Photo Focus (AB Friday) challenge. I use many multiple layers in Photoshop; such as color inversions and overlays, brightening and darkening, etc. until it had the look I was after.
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Love the “Olde Worlde” feel of your edit.
Marie
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Thank you. That was my intent and I wanted the sign to stand out too.
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I think your image looks so much more “authentic” – like Shakespeare’s times!
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Thank you. I didn’t stop messing with it until I felt it looked that way. I tried adding a ghost of Shakespeare but it didn’t work out.
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Sherry – I really like how you lit up the building like this – and all of your other touches! I also appreciate what you did because I messed around with this image last week and because of that I was more familiar with the composition ! Nice work…..
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Thanks you very much. My goodness, I what didn’t I use! I used find outlines. Adjustment layers: convert to gray scale, hue saturation, brightness and contrast. Blend modes like overlay. Layer duplication, etc. For the highlight a brightness contrast adjustment layer with only the light part white (to show) the rest black (to hide). I used masks throughout to isolate the areas I wanted to effect. And I added a spider web with a spider web brush in the lower right corner.
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Oh I am coming back to see the spider web! And like i said – I know this image so well and so thx for sharing the things u did – I will be back later to check it more (mobile right now) and again – I LOve the light on the building!
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