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Frank and a couple of others wanted to see a somewhat different version of this pic, and since i was in a mood to fool around in PS, here's a B&W version with, perhaps, a less distracting background. A split channel technique was used for the conversion. That's where a color image is split into its three component channels, which are then stacked one upon the other as layers in a certain order, depending on which channel looks best and the closest to the intended final image on top. Then each channel is adjusted for tonality and light, and blended for opacity, before being flattened into a single layer. You can even discard a channel/layer, as in this case where the blue channel was discarded, leaving the image to be made up of the red and green channels only. The technique offers a lot of control, but is time consuming, and the effort may not be worth the work for some images. Still, it's a nice technique to know. Shel > [Original Message] > From: frank theriault > I find the background rather distracting, especially that bottle of > water near her shoulder, and the bright table-top. > > I think it might have worked if the dof were a bit narrower, to > isolate her a bit more from the background. > > I also find the colours distracting - here's one screaming for b&w, IMHO.
