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"postaday", *One Four Challenge, Antique, Daguerreotype, France, Lightroom, Paris, Pharmacie de la Bourdonnais, Photograpy, Photoshop, Travel
It’s been a busy week this week and I didn’t get around to doing the Week 4 photo until today, so I’m dreadfully late, but here it is nevertheless. I went for an antique look version of the pharmacy today. Taking a bit of a hint of Daguerreotype photo and a big chunk of old fashioned postcard, I hope it’s hit the mark.
To do this, I took the straightened photo into Lightroom reduced the saturation about half way and put a sepia coloured filter over it in both highlights and shadows. Then I upped the contrast and clarity as well as adding a large amount of grain and a vignette, making it look very similar to an old postcard.
I took it into Photoshop where I added a rusted metal texture on top of it as an overlay and took the opacity of that layer right down. Then adding another layer, I painted spots of orange and blue over it and brought the opacity of that layer right down. The reason I used those two colours is in deference to the Daguerreotype photography as the chemicals would affect the metal leaving traces of those colours.
If you like to join in the One Four Challenge head on over to Robyn’s Captivate Me blog to get all the details.
Week 4
Week 3
Week 2
Week 1
I love it too – it definitely hit the mark for me.
My apologies for my late reply – work has been keeping me busy too.
Loved seeing this one Livonne – it’s my fave of the four for the month 😀 So nicely done!
So glad you joined us!!
What a good result!
Thanks.. it’s always good to play around with photos 🙂
Love this week 4 edit!
Thanks Sue. I enjoyed doing this one the most too 🙂
Week 4s photo is great. Week 1 and 4 are also my favourites
Thanks Irene.. I think they are my favourites too .. 😀
Thank you. I think Week 4 is my favourite.. but it’s fun having to find something different each week 🙂
It is really interesting to see the different ways you’ve edited this one image. Week 1 and Week 4 are my favorites. =)