Trying on Orton for size

**kat** · 06-03-2009, 02:23 PM

I was very excited to see the new podcast. For the longest time I wanted to know how to do this but never could. First go at a photo that really didn't do much for me but thought would be good for this technique. I'm soooo excited here. Gonna be a long night tonight!

Thank you marko and dwayneoaks for showing us this!

**Marko** · 06-03-2009, 02:47 PM

My pleasure but i do recommend listening to the podcast instead of just following the instructions in the body of the blog post. I know you listened kat. ( http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=383 )

Both Michael Orton and Darwin Wiggett gave excellent insight into the technique during the interview.

**Barefoot** · 06-03-2009, 04:58 PM

Well, I guess the "Kat's" outta the bag now.

**kat** · 06-03-2009, 05:11 PM

Ha ha! I tell yah. Having fun here. But like the podcast states..there's some limitations.

Kat is having fun!!!

**kat** · 06-03-2009, 05:32 PM

Ha ha..this is the BEAST! And this will be all folks! Out of flickr room..lol

**Ben H** · 06-03-2009, 06:02 PM

I didn't even know this had a "proper" name - I've been using a variation of this technique for a long time - in fact, it's one of my function keys, I have a few image treatments as actions set so I can quickly visualize some options on images.

The one I most use is to duplicate the image, desaturate it, gaussian blur it, set layer mode to overlay and reduce the opacity to taste.

Doesn't work for everything, but can be quite nice from time to time when you want some "flavour"...

**kat** · 06-03-2009, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by Ben H

I didn't even know this had a "proper" name - I've been using a variation of this technique for a long time - in fact, it's one of my function keys, I have a few image treatments as actions set so I can quickly visualize some options on images.

The one I most use is to duplicate the image, desaturate it, gaussian blur it, set layer mode to overlay and reduce the opacity to taste.

Doesn't work for everything, but can be quite nice from time to time when you want some "flavour"...

I definately have to set some functions..not to sure how to do that yet but it would come in handy!!!!