[Bachs]

I took this shot on a Powershot A95 at the Caledonian Railway 'graveyard'.

Usual conversion methods but thought the sepia tone added to the rust effect and I also added noise.

I created a slight glowing effect by duplicating the layer, adding guassian blur of 37 pixels and blended using soft light mode, then backed it right off using the opacity slider.

[RobertP]

Originally Posted by Bachs

I created a slight glowing effect by duplicating the layer, adding guassian blur of 37 pixels and blended using soft light mode, then backed it right off using the opacity slider.

yes but what is it ?

[MyPix]

Originally Posted by RobertP

yes but what is it ?

its the inside of the drivers cab on a steam engine m8,

or the ' footplate ' as its more commonly known

MyPix

[RobertP]

So its the firebox door then? Was wondering what all the bolts and ports were for if it was just a door....

[MyPix]

no, the firebox door is out of sight behind the footplate door in the forground, the main part of the pic is the striped out controls ( steam valves, govenor, brake etc )for the engine,

MyPix

[RobertP]

I see a bit of a machinery and I want to know what it is, what it did/does and how it works.... kind of forget I should be looking at the image

too much engineer not enough artist.

Nice shot bachs

[Dave]

You'd have to get some WD40 on those bolts if you want em undone

Have you tried the Diffuse glow filter before ?...think you would have to handpick foreground colours from shot. Would be interesting to compare to your method.

[Bachs]

Originally Posted by DJW

You'd have to get some WD40 on those bolts if you want em undone

Have you tried the Diffuse glow filter before ?...think you would have to handpick foreground colours from shot. Would be interesting to compare to your method.

I have a similar filter in the free Optikverve LAbs Virtual Photographer set of filters but I used the manual method outlined on this one.

There's always a danger of overdoing everything with tools like this.
I just converted my pic in this post back to pure monochrome and to be honest in retrospect it looks better.

[CT]

Have a Google for 'Virtual Photographer'. There's a freebie version of it and it works as a plugin with PS and PSP. It has a particularly good sepia conversion filter and some good B&W conversions too. I might actually upgrade to the full version.

[Matty]

interesting picture Bachs, good textures and i like the processing

[Dave]

Originally Posted by Bachs

I have a similar filter in the free Optikverve LAbs Virtual Photographer set of filters but I used the manual method outlined on this one.

I was thinking of the std filter in CS2 -> Distort -> Diffuse Glow . Have seen it used very successfully on nude photos, plus metalwork & is very flexible.

[Bachs]

Originally Posted by DJW

I was thinking of the std filter in CS2 -> Distort -> Diffuse Glow . Have seen it used very successfully on nude photos, plus metalwork & is very flexible.

Ah I see!
I'll give it a whirl