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Grungy Photo Montage

Added: Jul 08, 2005 Rating:

Level: Experienced Software: Photoshop

	1. Open the Merge to HDR tool (File> Automate> Merge to HDR).

	2. Click Browse to select up to five images to be used for the photo montage then click Open.

	3. Click OK and in the Manually Set EV window, apply the following properties: Image 1: EV: 1 Image 2: EV: 2 Image 3: EV: 3 Image 4: EV: 4 Image 5: EV: 5 Click OK. If the OK button still does not activate after setting the properties for all the images, click the left arrow under the image thumbnail.

	4. In the Merge to HDR window, set the Bit Depth to 8 Bit/Channel then click OK.

	5. In the HDR Conversion window, leave the default settings with Exposure and Gamma as the method and click OK.

	6. Use the Exposure tool (Image> Adjustments> Exposure) to apply the following properties: Exposure: 0.00 Offset: -0.5000 Gamma: 1.00

	7. Invert the current layer (Ctrl+I).

	8. Use the Hue/Saturation tool (Ctrl+U) to colorize the layer. These are the settings I've used for this step: Hue: 36 Saturation: 25 Lightness: 0

	9. Duplicate the current layer (Ctrl+J) and change the blending mode of the new layer to Overlay.

	10. With the new layer selected, use the Brightness/Contrast tool to increase the contrast and adjust the brightness.

	11. Here's the result from this Photoshop technique.