The Long and Winding Road

[brtsergio]

Yes, it's exactly the same title of one of the last songs of the Beatles.

Though it has been heavily elaborated in PS it's mailny a landscape shot.

Here it comes :



P.S. :
The original shot colours were not that nice.
I tryed with levels, saturation and so for but they did not convinced me.

I decided then for a Treshold photo.
When I started trying to find out the right treshold a problem arose :
there was no a good treshold to have details on the road, the fences and the trees at the same time !

So I worked it out in the following way :
I duplicated the first layer three times.
On each of these three layers I applied the treshold filter with different settings.
-the lowest had details on the road
-the one in the middle details on the fences
-the one on the top details on the trees.

I started erasing fences and road on the top layer with a soft brush so that fences and road of the lower levels could be seen.
I did then the same with the middle layer, erasing the road.
This way I got a treshold photo which at the same time was showing detailed trees, fences and the road.

I then tried different blending modes to get a more intersting effect : the Lighten blending mode was ok for me.

As far as the first layes is concerned I have added some grain and then I have applied a diagonal motion blur.

That's all folks !

[Soundengineer]

I usually do not care much for the artistic filters in ps, but you have managed to pull this one off. It is well done, and I can appreciate how much work went into this.