Wanda Krack wrote:
I occ. use the orton effect, it depends on the image. Bright flowers work well with this technique. However, here is how I do it, as given to me by a friend years ago. #1 duplicate layer, change blending mode to screen. #2 duplicate that layer (it gets really light). #3 use Gaussian blur.....sliders for the amount....I usually use around 24. #4 on this layer, change the blending mode to multiply.....sliders for the amounts. That's it....easy. I don't know if this is the true orton effects that was original, and I certainly don't shoot one shot out of focus for this, but it works on some images. I quickly used this on an image I took in the mountains a couple of weeks ago, just to show the effects.
I have also discovered an effect similiar to this, by using the clarity slider toward the negative numbers in camera raw......it softens the image considerably, and sometimes resembles the orton effect.
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Wanda, this is lovely photo and beautiful use of the Orton Effect. It reminds me of a Thomas Kinkade painting (without a little bungalow with light shining through the windows).