Moose asked me to do a "tutorial" on how I did the IR pic yesterday; I'll try, and just pray y'all can understand it.  I apologize in advance for the quality of the pics that will be in this story.  I never realized how hard it is to take close shots of a computer screen until I tried it today.   The program I used is Adobe Photoshop CS2.

First, open the image you want to work with.  Keep in mind, when converting a color image to IR, you get better results if you use an image that has lots of greenery in it.  Once you get the image open, click on the image icon at the top of the page and duplicate the image.  Close the original, and just work with the duplicate.  Once you do this, click on the layer icon and, in the drop down, go to New Adjustment Layer then over to channel mixer.  Once you click here, another box will pop up; click  ok here.  Next, the channel mixer box will pop up.  Be sure to check the Monochrome box in the lower left hand corner; when you do this, the image turns grayscale.  You use the adjustments under red, green and blue to make the image b/w.  If you're doing a landscape, the green needs to be maxed out at 200; for portraits, the red needs to be at 200.  Play with the red and blue (or green and blue) until you have the effect you want.  The constant slider near the bottom of the box changes brightness.

Once this is done, click on the layer icon again, and in the drop down, click on flatten image. From here, click on the filter icon, go down to blur and click on gaussian blur.  Blur the image using the  radius slider; you can watch the change as you do the adjusting.  For images that are 25MB, the slider should be between 5-20 pixels.  For a 5MB image, it should be between 2-10 pixels.

Next, click on the edit icon and in the drop down, go to fade gaussian blur.  Once the box opens up, change the mode to overlay or screen.  Just play with different modes to get the effect you want.  Drag the opacity slider to the left to reduce the effect of the blur.  Where it should be set varies with each image.  

You are done, and ready to save your new image to wherever you choose to save it.  



 
  • lilbit
    226
    I've done this and it has a great look to it, thanks for the tutorial Kay, you explained it very well.

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  • For your reference, pressing the 'Alt' and 'Print Screen' on Windows will create a screenshot that is stored in your clipboard. If you open a new photoshop document you can paste your screenshot into the document. That way you dont have to photograph your screen :)

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  • MRQUACKERS
    41007
    Nice tutorial. To take a screen shot, hit (gently) the PrtScrn button on the keyboard, paste into your photo-editor, then edit out what you don't want. (Dang, gotta type faster.)

    - A quack with an camera

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  • lol.. 'Alt' 'Print screen' will take a screenshot of the active window. 'Printscreen' on its own will take a screenshot of the entire screen.

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  • Beholden
    33
    Such wonderfully talented and helpful people on the site..........thanks for the hard work...

    - ummmm

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  • lilbit
    226
    matjones, you know this but you didn't color profile your monitor? LOL

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  • KayN
    1147
    Thanks, Mat and Quackers for the tips! Now, I know.....

    - Ms.N

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  • AnyMoose Hero
    1456
    Great Job Kay, Now that s two Things I have to work on today

    - Still a Moose

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  • jojames1
    2136
    Hmmmm.....project time. Thanks Kay!

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  • Thanks Kay, I'll have to hit 'PrtScrn', or is it 'Alt' 'PrtScrn', to print out your instructions so I can follow them in PS. Dangit, I can't find my 'prtscrn' button, what happens if I just hit the computer? I liked the infared photo that you posted earlier, I'll definitely have to go try this. Thanks again.

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  • surferguy
    21787
    Wow... now I just have to go out and get a 500 dollar copy of CS2.. nice job ms.N

    - Is it Summer yet.....

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  • codepoit
    56
    Kerry, I don't know if it's any less expensive, but Photoshop CS will do this as well. In fact, pretty much anything CS2 can do, CS can do as well. Hope you are feeling better...

    - I'm Special!

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  • BusyB1965
    147
    thanks for the explaination....hopefully in about a month will have time to try some of the different advice that has been offered by so many.

    - Blessings

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