The Orton Effect is a post-processing technique used to add a romantic or mysterious look to landscape photography. It's named after Michael Orton, a Canadian landscape photographer, who introduced a surreal vibe to his photos. To apply the Orton Effect, he shot two or three photographs of the same scene.
We will use a similar effect using Photoshop to make a boring photograph more interesting.
ORTON EFFECT TECHNIQUE
1. Open your photograph in Photoshop.
2. Duplicate your photo. Select your photo in the layers palette and press CMD J to make a duplicate. Another way to duplicate the layer is to right-click on the layer and select duplicate. Use the duplicate method you prefer.
3. Change the blending mode of the duplicated layer from normal to screen.
4. Duplicate the screen layer and change the blending mode to multiply.
5. Make adjustments: levels if your image is too dark.
6. Make adjustments: hue/saturation and increase the saturation to make the colors more vivid.
7. Select the multiply layer and add a blur filter. Go to FILTERS>BLUR>GAUSSIAN BLUR. Increase the blur enough to blur some of the image while leaving other parts clear.
8. Post the original photograph and the Orton Effect photograph to your Weebly website.
1. Open your photograph in Photoshop.
2. Duplicate your photo. Select your photo in the layers palette and press CMD J to make a duplicate. Another way to duplicate the layer is to right-click on the layer and select duplicate. Use the duplicate method you prefer.
3. Change the blending mode of the duplicated layer from normal to screen.
4. Duplicate the screen layer and change the blending mode to multiply.
5. Make adjustments: levels if your image is too dark.
6. Make adjustments: hue/saturation and increase the saturation to make the colors more vivid.
7. Select the multiply layer and add a blur filter. Go to FILTERS>BLUR>GAUSSIAN BLUR. Increase the blur enough to blur some of the image while leaving other parts clear.
8. Post the original photograph and the Orton Effect photograph to your Weebly website.