| Creating the image Overgrown and one variation |
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| Creating the InterplayArt image Overgrown was fairly straightforward. The two original images are shown below (Image 1 and Image 2). |
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| Image 1: A ruined building. Click here or on the image below to view and download a high resolution version. |
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| Image 2: A color image of grass that was desaturated (In Photoshop select the pull down menu under Image, then select Adjust, then select Desaturated). Click here or on the image below to view and download a high resolution version. |
| I took the image of the ruined building and added a layer with the image of the grass above it. I decided to have the effect of the grass fairly strong. So I made the opacity of the layer with the image of the grass on it equal to 40% and merged it with the layer with the image of the ruined building. The merged image is shown below. Click here or on the image below to view and download a high resolution version. |
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| Image 3: The merged image. The layer with a copy of the grass image was set to opacity 40% and merged with a layer with a copy of the ruined building on it. |
| I duplicated this merged image. selected the duplicate layer and opened Lucis Pro 6. I used Single Channel mode to process this image. I left the Smooth Detail slider at 1 and moved the Enhance Detail slider to 97. I found that I liked the result and did not need any further alterations. Click here or on the image below to view and download a high resolution version of the image. |
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| Image 4: Overgrown. This image was created by opening Image 3 in Lucis Pro 6, and setting the Smooth Detail slider to 1 and the Enhance Detail slider to 97. The number of Processing Scan Lines was set to 50 to make sure that the processed image would not have any radial line artifacts. |
| How you set the opacity of the layers before you merge the images greatly alters the results. Below is an image created by making the opacity of the layer with the image of the grass on it equal to 60% and merging it with the layer with the image of the ruined building. So in this image the grass is much more visible. Click here or on the image below to view and download a high resolution version of the image. |
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| Image 5. The second merged image. The layer with a copy of the grass image was set to opacity 60% and merged with a layer with a copy of the ruined building on it. |
| Now I process this second merged image the same way I created Overgrown, namely left the Smooth Detail slider at 1 and moved the Enhance Detail slider to 97. The result is below. Click here or on the image below to view and download a high resolution version of the image. |
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| Image 6: Overgrown, variation #2. This image was created by opening Image 5 in Lucis Pro 6, and setting the Smooth Detail slider to 1 and the Enhance Detail slider to 97. The number of Processing Scan Lines was set to 50 to make sure that the processed image would not have any radial line artifacts. |
