Tycho is really a very sweet kitty, but she hates having her picture taken so all I can catch are scowls.
A lot of processing here:
The Orton effect --
* apply USM to image
* create duplicate layer, set to screen
* combine original and screen layer
* create duplicate layer of this combined layer, set to multiply
* apply gaussian blur (around 10 or more) to multiply layer, adjust both blur radius and layer opacity to taste (also use layer mask to let under layer show through in places if wanted)
* if needed, more USM to bottom layer (the screen combined one) according to taste
After that some color adjustment, blending in a yellow duotone layer. Crop.
Then the overlays.... I used the tortilla in color burn, texture01 in linear burn, and the chain border in darken. Erased a bit here and there on her face. Voila, evil kitty!
I've posted them in my overlay folder for anyone who is interested :-)
lol .. SO BRILLIANT .. LOVE THE TITLE .. shakespeare and ray bradbury .. !!
the title and the image go so well together .. your cats are a constant source of inspiration even if they dont like having their pic taken .. !!.. those eyes are absolutely amazing colleen .. :)
I can see you love your cats, as by this image, and also so many you have in your portfolio. This is just brilliant. Dramatic, and with the added noise, and overlay, just brilliant.
Colleen I have so missed you cats I am glad to see them again :) Thanks very much for your overlays I have just uploaded them all :) Aslo wonderful of you to post processing steps it's very helpful for me I am going to try the Orten effect very soon ;)
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