Gothic Photographs Make your photographs look dark (gothic) in Photoshop 7+

[shadow skazi 0]

It's been a while since I last posted a tutorial, so I thought I might like to add this.

 

In this tutorial you will learn to take a photograph of a cathedral and make it gothic-like.

 

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First you are going to need a picture of a cathedral. So go to https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl and image search "cathedral".

 

Next youll need to make it black and white for that press CTR+Shift+U

 

Now press CTR+L to adjust the levels. Play with the settings because each picture requires its own settings. For mine I used Input Levels: 10, 0.64, 136, Output levels: 0, 245.

 

The next step is adjusting curves. Press CTR+M, and adjust so it looks somewhat like this...

 

http://exs.cx/

 

Now the last step is to adjust the contrast. Go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast. Set the contrast to about +20-25. And now you're done!

 

My original: http://exs.cx/

 

My result: http://exs.cx/

[whyme 0]

once again, your tutorials do not fail to dissapoint.

[NeXDesigns 0]

not bad, next time instead of linking the images just use the img tag

i dont really like the end effect too much but it can be tweaked to fit my needs, good work

[Casanova 0]

I dont like the effect either, or at least in the example you showed the image is just too bright and lacks detail. I would shift the levels histo-graph more to left to fix this.

[spacemonkey 0]

It's been a while since I last posted a tutorial, so I thought I might like to add this.

 

In this tutorial you will learn to take a photograph of a cathedral and make it gothic-like.

 

---

 

First you are going to need a picture of a cathedral. So go to https://www.google.de/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=BwkjVKfAD8uH8QfckIGgCQ&gws_rd=ssl and image search "cathedral".

 

Next youll need to make it black and white for that press CTR+Shift+U

 

Now press CTR+L to adjust the levels. Play with the settings because each picture requires its own settings. For mine I used Input Levels: 10, 0.64, 136, Output levels: 0, 245.

 

The next step is adjusting curves. Press CTR+M, and adjust so it looks somewhat like this...

 

http://exs.cx/

 

Now the last step is to adjust the contrast. Go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast. Set the contrast to about +20-25. And now you're done!

 

My original: http://exs.cx/

 

My result: http://exs.cx/

65623[/snapback]

Awesome tutorial. I really like the effect this produces. It is almost like a sort of old black and white photograph. Nice work.

[Shackman 0]

I like the effect, but I think the image you posted could have been a little darker so it would look more ancient....Good job!-Shackman

[look4prog 0]

good job man