Lucis InterplayArt by Barbara Williams

Creating the image Bouldered Water
So I have already confessed what is obvious, that I am not a very good photographer yet. Image 1 below is dull in many ways. So I decided to liven it up by Lucis interplaying it with another dull image of a dry riverbed, Image 2. Click on any image to view and download a high-resolution version of the image.

Image 1: A stream.

Image 2: A dry riverbed.
I opened Image 1 in Photoshop and then copied Image 2 to a second layer. Then I duplicated both layers so I could work with copies of the images. I ordered the layers so I had a layer with the copy of the river image on top and a layer with the copy of the dry riverbed immediately below. I made sure that only these two copied layers were visible. I wanted the river image to be a little more emphasized so I set the opacity of that layer to 60%, and then merged it with the layer of the image of the dry riverbed with opacity 100%. The merged result is below.

Image 3: The river image with 60% opacity merged with the dry riverbed image.
Because I wanted to add some color to this image I processed it with Lucis using Split Channel Mode. I only used the Enhance Detail slider and I used the same value of the Enhance Detail slider for each color channel to make the color shifts significant but not outrageous. The value that I selected for the Enhance Detail slider was 125, so the enhancement was not extreme. After I processed the image with Lucis I cropped it to make it more interesting. The final image, Bouldered Water, is below.

Image 4: The final image, Bouldered Water

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