Grunging effect

agoreira

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25 Aug 2006 - 8:05 AM

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Do a search for "grunge brushes", you'll find loads of stuff there.

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Boyd

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25 Aug 2006 - 8:07 AM

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Grunge in the ePz technique section.

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Sus

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25 Aug 2006 - 8:29 AM

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http://andrzejdragan.com/

This link was given to me on my blue channel thread here

so unless the rules have changed I think it's ok to link to show an example - is this what you mean?

Also Zosia Zija - her colour work.

Unfortunately I can't remember how they get this effect, though if this is what you mean I know it has been discussed on the forum before.

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Henchard

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25 Aug 2006 - 8:35 AM

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I presume you mean like

Andrzej Dragan

There are a few actions kicking about the net that try to replicate this but they are not particularly good; although they may give you some handle on how its done.

There were a lot of threads/discussion in the forums about this at

www.retouchpro.com

also the forums at www.dpreview.com

if you do a search for Dragan.

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Boyd

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25 Aug 2006 - 8:36 AM

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Something like this?

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Sus

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25 Aug 2006 - 9:04 AM

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THis is the original thread it was discussed on, but no neat solution unfortunately. Glad I found it again, the quote from Dragan himself is relevant to my blue channel query.

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Sus

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28 Aug 2006 - 10:42 AM

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Hi,

I have been playing with blend methods this morning and had an 'aha' moment - one of the key processes I think is colour burn (and other blend methods available in photoshop), but then reduce the saturation.

I am rather pleased with the effect; to demonstrate I have uploaded my attempt, along with the original in mods, so you can see the difference. I give a detailed description of process on the photo, but will recap here:

1. I worked with adjustment layers, and first made auto contrast and auto levels adjustment layers (The auto levels over adjusted but this helped this particular effect, so I faded it only slightly)

2. I then created a couple of duplicate background layers and used different blend modes, with varying opacities, to create the effect I wanted. I used: Colour Burn (with a decrease in saturation), Multiply, and another duplicate layer on which I used the USM with very high radius but very low amount, which does not sharpen per se, but increases contrast.

3. Then a normal flatten and slight sharpening (but not much).


Still a lot of work to do, but I'm hoping if we all post any techniques that we find successful, we might be able to come up with a 'neatish' solution, or at least toolkit, to 'grungify' to our hearts content.

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