Can you recreate these photos??

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"Christopher Carlson" wrote:

Hello,
I have posted three pictures on my website that I am hoping someone can help me with. I am hoping after seeing the pictures you can tell me how to recreate the same effects. My website address is
http://www.christophercarlsononline.com/Nude.html

Christopher, in conventional darkroom terms that effect is called "Solarization".

You can go a long way towards making that effect using CURVES. (Image – Adjust – Curves). Put dots near the middle-ends of the line then bend the heck out of just the middle to get an idea. Refine, play around from there to get a feel for it. (What you are trying to do is reverse or nearly reverse just certain parts of the image tones, usually the high and middle tones.)

"Christopher Carlson" wrote in news:MGR0c.107957 $:

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It’s called solariztion and it’s a filter effect
heres one, never tried it and there are others
http://www.ldsearch.com/photoshop/solarize.html

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Christopher, in conventional darkroom terms that effect is called "Solarization".

There’s also a bit of embossing going on in those filters.

If you take an image, duplicate it in a layer, run the Emboss filter on it (which takes it to grayscale), and colorize the embossed layer, you can usually find blending modes which will take you 90% of the way there. The image tends to look solarized because Emboss removes low-frequency detail, replacing it with gray.

A conventional solarization effect doesn’t give quite the same look to edges.

The problem I have with the images as they exist now is it looks like they were brute-forced–they’re all severly posterized. A better approach, IMO, would be to forget using filters and do exactly what you suggest–using Curves to do a solarization effect, then colorize the solarized image. (Judging from the posterization, I doubt whoever created the original images used the Curves command; they look like they were created entirely with filters.)

The third image looks like the colorization was done with some channel mixing, after the Find Edges and Emboss filters were used.

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