long may they wave. ahem.

jamelah e.

Because I'm procrastinating on this thing I'm supposed to be writing (not the statement of purpose, this other thing), I decided to give post-processing this image a shot. If you're interested, this is what I did:

1. Fiddled with levels and curves. Those are technical terms.

2. Decided on a crop.

3. Created a duplicate of the background layer, changed blending to overlay.

4. Created a duplicate of the overlay layer, changed blending to soft light.

5. Created a duplicate of the soft light layer, desaturated it. (I don't normally do so much with duplicate layers, but I was really procrastinating. Still am, actually. But I like what this does to the colors.)

6. Created a new layer. Selected the color from one of the bricks in the background, and used the paint bucket to fill the layer in. Set blending to soft light. Whee, textures!

7. Created a duplicate of this layer, fiddled with curves.

8. Created another duplicate of the original brown-ish soft light layer, desaturated it.

9. Created a new layer, put a white radial gradient over the faces, changed blending to soft light. Usually if I do this I'll change the opacity but I left it at 100% here because I'm just wild and crazy.

10. Added a little vignetting around the bottom edges.

11. The end.

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