I saw some photos from some famous photographers, namely Dave Hill and Jim Fiscus who's photos look like they've been treated with Lucis Arts filters. Typically the Whyeth and Sculpture modes. I was really keen on getting the same effect on my photos. I'm showing you Whyeth here.
So off I trotted to Lucis Arts website and wanted to buy the software. HOLY MOLY!
The cost was just crazy for a simple filter like this. So I've tried various methods and saw some interesting posts on the net about this method
Find a free action here to do some Local Contrast Enhancement care of Rastarican Studio. It's at the bottom of the page.
UPDATE FOR MAC USERS: I've struggled to find a working plug-in for the Mac.
However I have a temporary solution here.
PC Users
Visit the www.photo-plugins.com site and download the Local Contrast Enhancer plugin. It's free to download and is a great filter to serve our purposes.
It will show a ZIP file with a small little file with an extension .8bf. This is a photoshop plug-in. Simply copy it to your plug-in directory for Photoshop. (e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2\Plug-Ins)
Start up Photoshop.
The filter can be found in your Filter menu under Photo-Plugins .
Here is our photo. Well... it's my photo from a wedding I did last year, but I thought it would be a good candidate for this method so I'm letting you have it too.
Original Image
And now I'm gonna show you two other photo's (or purists would call them images LOL).
One of the 'images' had been done with our nice expensive Lucis Arts plugins and the other is our blend of filters.
Can you guess which is which?
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Version A |
Version B |
Well if you guessed that A was Lucis Arts and B was our method then you very good! Each are a little different but pretty close you must agree and if I didn't show them side by side you probably wouldn't know the difference.
If you guessed the other way around... HA... I got you.
Now we are ready to have some fun.
