Old west play structure at Montclair Park, in the Oakland hills.
-Handheld, Manual mode
-Made selections for the stagecoach and windows
-Blurred stage to obscure metallic structure
-Blurred background showing through windows
-Reduced opacity of blured windows to 90% to allow some background detail to show through
-Tone Curves overall and through gradient masks
-Isolated Green Channel to Grayscale mode
-Grayscale > Duotone mode (Black + Pantone 143)
-Slight tone adjustments
-Convert to RGB mode
-Resize
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH = 0
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 263KB
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8 from me. i didn't vote down all the shoehorned entries, but i did score higher for those that had a sepia "feel" to them (meaning subject matter, regardless of the processing), and this was one of the few. nice job.
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