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The Easy Guide to Creating the Orton Effect using Photoshop - UPDATED
by Peter HillThe aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to achieving the Orton Effect without the necessity of bei…
The aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to achieving the Orton Effect without the necessity of being a Photoshop guru. I still call myself “new to Photoshop” and I have found a lot of tutorials on this topic assume a much higher level of knowledge than I have and are not very intuitive. I have revised the Tutorial to show a shortcut to the 2 Blending Option steps, which I only found myself after posting the original tutorial (doh), but I have left the long way as well, as you may wish to play around with the default settings applied by the short way. To achieve the Orton Effect you will be creating Layers, but don’t worry if you haven’t done this before. I hadn’t. The method I am about to describe is the simplest I have found. It’s not my method, but the description is all mine. When I have more time (yeh, right) I will revise this tutorial to include screenshots of the various steps. But for now, you might like to print this Guide and have it next to you while you create your first Orton Effect. I use Photoshop CS2 v9. The method described below originally came from someone using Photoshop Elements, so you can see this is not advanced stuff. The steps described below assume almost zero knowledge of Layering, and ignore other adjustments you might be making to the image, for example Sharpening the image before you start work on it (recommended). Step 1 Choose your image. Any image will do, you are just learning at this stage, but if you have that favourite flower shot or portrait – cool. Step 2 Open Photoshop. Open the image you have selected to be your first amazing Orton Effect image. Feel the excitement. This is your Background Layer. Step 3 Look for the Layer toolbox on the right hand side of the Photoshop work area. There should be a rectangular box with a small eye icon, a tiny thumbnail version of your image, and the word Background in italics. Right-click the word Background and select Duplicate Layer. A small box should immediately appear in the middle of your screen. It is asking you to Name the Duplicate Layer. Name this Layer Focus and click Enter. (Note: It doesn’t really matter what you name it, but Focus will do for our current purpose.) Step 4 There should now be a new rectangular box immediately above the original, and called Focus. (If there isn’t, stop, curse quietly, then try Step 3 again.) Pause now and look at the tiny eye icon. You will see that it is now the Focus layer on your screen, so this is the “copy” you are working on. OK, moving on ….. Right-click the Focus rectangular box and select Duplicate Layer again. This time when the naming box appears just click Enter because we will use the default name for this Layer, being Focus copy. Step 5 OK, now we are going to blend the Focus copy. There are 2 ways to do this – the long way and the short way. I will show you the long way first, just in case you want to go back and play with it after you get familiar with the process. Long way – Right-click the Focus copy rectangular box and select Blending Options. This will open a new box with lots of options. Ignore them for now. In the top part of this box you will find a window showing the Blending Mode and the default setting of Normal with a pull-down menu (A downwards arrow). Open the menu (left-click) and select Screen. Click Enter to close the box. OR Short way – look at the window which shows your layers. See the drop down menu at the top left, showing Normal as the default? Scroll down the menu and select Screen. The Focus copy layer should now have a bit of a washed-out look to it as a result of selecting Screen as the Blending Mode. (I have found that if the Screen effect still leaves a fairly good image, the Orton Effect will be enhanced. Too washed out and the Effect is diminished.) Step 6 Right-click the Focus copy rectangular box again, only this time select Merge Down (it’s near the bottom of the menu). This will collapse the Focus copy layer onto the Focus layer. Step 7 Right-click the Focus rectangular box again and select Duplicate Layer again. Name this copy Blur. Click Enter to close the box. Step 8 Now, find and open the Filter menu on the Tool bar running across the top of your screen. Select Blur. Another menu should open. Select Gaussian Blur (don’t ask). A new window should open. You will see a Preview of the image with a default blur Radius setting of 15.9. You can play around with the radius later. For now, just click OK to close the window as we will accept the 15.9 (I have found 15.9 to be right for most images anyway). The blur you are to achieve with this step should be enough to discern the shapes without the detail. Step 9 – The Magic Happens! This is the fun part. We now make one more blending option. Again, here’s the long way and the short way. Long way – Right-click the Blur rectangular box and select Blending Options. As described in Step 5, this will open a new box with lots of options. Again, ignore them for now. In the top part of this box you will find a window showing the Blending Mode and the default setting of Normal with a pull-down menu (A downwards arrow). Open the menu (left-click) again and this time select Multiply. Click Enter to close the box. OR Short way – Click on the same drop down menu you used to create the Screen effect, only this time select Multiply. You should now be able to see the Orton Effect! Step 10 If you want to accept the result, right-click the Blur rectangular box one more time and this time select Flatten Image (it’s the last option on the menu). This basically collapses all the layers into one final image and is the last thing you do in Layering. You can now save the image as normal. Does it look something like this? If it looks too dark though, you can adjust the Opacity level with the sliding bar before flattening the image. Look for the tiny Opacity tool in the top right of the Layering toolbox. But if you find you need to go below 90% the Effect is significantly lost and maybe it wasn’t the right image. Another option is to adjust the Fill and leave the Opacity at 100%. Have fun! I am. Peter
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State flower of Coloado. The Orton effect was used to give this a soft feel. Image shot near Vail Colorado
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Shot in an Aspen grove near Vail Colorado. Fuji Velvia. Orton Effect to show dreamy feeling. / / /
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Slide sandwich of Californian poppies taken at Araluen. A little bit Van Gogh?????
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Featured in Nostalgic Art and Photography June 3, 2009. / Featured in Cottage Style May 22, 2009. / Featured in Rural Around The Globe May 19, 2009. / Featured in Postcard Style May 18, 2009. / Featured in A Place To Call Home May 15, 2009. / Featured in Cards: Best Of Your Best May 15, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size. Another image taken at the Juniata Crossing Mercantile on May 10, 2009. Image taken with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens. Post processing included Photoshop cloning of a distraction, then into Photomatix for hdr (single image, hand held, +/- 2) then back to Photoshop for a light Orton. Then into Corel Paint 11 for some work with the blender and oils brushes, then back to Ph!toshop for the glowing light bulbs with one of Obsidian Dawn’s brushes, then to I-photo for the edge blur. Obsidian Dawn
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Meet Angelica, my grandaughter and I’m passionnate about my Angel.This pic was taken three years ago when we used to do gardenning together,so many days we spend together then.She’s seven now and we don’t have time together like we used to .I have great expectations for that little girl.She told me a few weeks ago that when she grow up I’ll just have to write books and she will put the images in them.She is very good with drawing and i’m thinking about showing the first steps in photography .She had a camera for Christmas ,i can’t wait to go photo shooting with her.I think about her everyday ,wondering if everything is okay for her ,when I’m with her the time stops and I become a better person ,that’s real love …I took that pic when she was watering the flowers,she was so concentrated,I spend days with her in my garden ,moments I will never forget.I’m still wearing that old green hat 5 years later and Angelica has her own now…. :)) So old but so comfy / I did the Orton effects on that pic,I wanted this timeless feeling of an old photography.
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Winner of the Sunset Mania in Safe Haven / Featured in Amazing Orton Effect , All That Is Nature , Dutch Touch , Canon DSLR, 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE, The Beauty of the European Waters, That One Great Shot Canon EOS 350D – Canon Lens 18-55 mm – F/7.1 – 1/100 sec. / Program Dynamic-Photo-HDR Filter Color and The Amazing Orton Effect! Fochteloerveen belongs to the Society for preservation of nature monuments in the Netherlands, this is a Dutch organisation founded in 1905 that buys, protects and manages nature reserves in the Netherlands. Restoration programma of the Fochteloërveen raised bog! / At the end of the last Ice Age, about 10 000 years ago, an extensive area of peat bogs was created along what is now the Drenthe-Friesland border. For centuries, peat was used for heating on a small scale, but large-scale land clearance for agriculture between 1600 and 1900 fundamentally changed the character of the region. All that was left of this once huge peat resource was the Fochterloërveen (3 000 ha) and a few smaller cores. Even here, the peat degraded and turned into earth after the peat bog was drained for tree-planting and farming (of buckwheat varieties). The result was a monotonous expanse of Molinia grasses. Only in the highest core area was the peat still intact, complete with the vegetation associated with raised bogs. Sufficient peat moss (sphagnum) still grew here to sustain peat formation: it therefore provided a core area from which the entire Fochterloërveen raised bog could be restored. Apart from agricultural activities, this is a lonely, isolated region (the Fochterloërveen itself is surrounded by penal institutes), which in principle made the work of restoration easier. In 1965, the drainage ditches were sealed off and extraneous water was kept out. The task of restoration itself began in the 1980s, with the building of low dykes, creating isolated compartments on the bog surface. The aim was to manage the water levels in each compartment in such a way that peat moss could grow there again. The compartments proved to be too big, however, and the differences in their height above sea level has meant that some are too dry and others too wet. / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / / / Sunset in the Wetland Fochteloerveen / Featured in Amazing Orton Effect , All That Is Nature , Dutch Touch , Canon DSLR, 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE, The Beauty of the European Waters, That One Great Shot
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Outside Bishop’s Palace in Wells, England – HDR tonemapped and given the Orton technique / / Click to view by category / / Fractal Images / Images from Nature HDR Images Flower Portraits Night/Low Light Images Architectural Images Landscape Images Infrared Images / / / Random Images / /
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The close of a warm Summer’s day at Fairy Dell, Clifton Springs with the remains of The Long Jetty stretching toward the horizon. Pentax istDS Camera. Three exposures bracketed to create an HDR image.
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A foggy morning enhanced with Orton effect to create an artistic effect.
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Featured in The Compact Group May 30, 2009. / Featured in Unique Buildings Of The World May 22, 2009. / Featured in Italy and All Things Italian May 21, 2009. / Featured in Which Way? May 21, 2009. Best Viewed Full Size One of my favorite images from Venice … which reminds me of our gondola ride the evening before. Just the thought of it will always bring a smile. We left from the center of town with a group of about 20 other couples from the ship. As we pulled away, each couple with their own individual gondola, we overheard that another of the couples, lovely young newlyweds, had been given an accordion player and a singer for the evening as a wedding present. I remember trying not to roll my eyes. As we were rowed through the “streets” ... above … each of the gondoliers passed out bottles of Asti Spumanti and paper cups to their patrons. Soon the singer and the accordion player began to serenade the newlyweds, and the rest of us as well. And as the delicious fruit of the vines began to do its happy work, Venice opened her arms to us all. By the time we made it to the Grand Canal, we were all singing along at the tops of our voices. The gondoliers performed some magic with their magnificent, gleaming black boats, forming a fan shape and then a starburst with them all … one never touching the other. It must have been an extraordinary sight from the upper floors of the beautiful old dwellings lining the canal. I know it took our breath away!! A little Mario Lanza, anyone?? Enjoy and dream!! / O Sole Mio ... oh, sing along … you know you want to!!! Image taken with my little Olympus C-5000Z point and shoot. Post processing included hdr from a hand-held single image in Photomatix Pro, at +/- 2 1/2, Orton in Photoshop, and some touch up of the flowers in Corel Paint 11 with the Wacom Intuos 4 tablet.
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This is the picture that I have waiting for. It was almost magic. It was worth the trip in cold very cold weather to get this. Its a little stream near by my home. / With a touch of Orton´s Top10 April 2009, in Neighborhoods Top10 February 2009, in Stream Crossing Top10 January 2009, in The Greatest View in the World Featured 2008 , in Freedom to Shine Featured 2008, in Scenic Scandinavia
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Winner of the “July Avatar – Country Garden” challenge in Backyard Photography June 29, 2009. / Featured in Spring in the North-East USA June 18, 2009. / Featured in Cottage Style June 17, 2009. / Featured in Nostalgic Art and Photography June 17, 2009. / Featured in Nikon D40 (x) June 14, 2009. / Featured in A Garden Somewhere June 13, 2009. / Featured in Your Magic Place June 13, 2009. Best Viewed Large Another in the series from the Juniata Crossing Mercantile on Route 30, near Breezewood PA. Image taken on May 10, 2009 with the Nikon D40x and the 18-200mm vr Nikon/Nikkor lens and the cp filter. Post processing included hdr in Photomatix from a single hand held image, duplicated four times in Photoshop to an eval of +/- 1 3/4 each, then into Photoshop for Orton and the addition of a few more flowers. I-Photo for edge blur.
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Eagle river. Colorado Fuji Velvia /
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Canon 350D / Featured in Natures Wonders January 2009 / Featured in Shameless Self-Promotion 26th April 2009 / Featured in Portual 26th April 2009 / Winner of a Pretty Pair (A-L) challenge in All about Flowers 10th May 2009 / Featured in First Things 28th May 2009 /
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Featured in “Cottage Style” June 10, 2009. / Placed Second in That’s Entertainment’s “Colors of Summer” challenge May 8, 2009. / Featured in Colour Me Vibrant Red March 26, 2009. / Featured in The Art of Intrigue March 22, 2009. / Featured in The Amazing Orton Effect March 20, 2009. / Featured in Light In The Darkness March 20, 2009. / Featured in All The Colors Of The Rainbow March 17, 2009. / Featured in Bits and Pieces March 15, 2009. / Featured in AMERICAS ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free March 13, 2009. BEST VIEWED FULL SIZE! / (There’s actually a little fun surprise in the top window!!) Found this beautiful little shop on a warm and sunny morning in Old Ellicott City, Maryland on June 10, 2008. Image taken with the hand-held Nikon D40x and the 18-135mm Nikon lens. Shutter speed 1/640, aperture f/6.3. Post processing included hdr in Photomatix from a single image converted to three at -/+ 2 eval in Photoshop first, and then the Orton Technique in Photoshop.
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Orton enhanced image. Taken through two panes of glass about 4 years ago in Haddington You can see rutting stags on the right….
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This was shot in Arlington, WA. One of my favorite pics and the most featured, viewed and favorited of my works here on RedBubble. Thank you! / Using Photoshop, I adjusted the levels and saturation to bring out the colors. Three separate images were composited: old barn ruins, rainbow with tree and clouds. Clone stamped out a telephone wire as well. Trying something new, experimenting with my images in the Orton Style. Shot this with my Kodak Easy Share point & shoot camera. Brought it into Photoshop and added layers and different blending options as well as blur and sharpen. This work was featured / May 28th, 2009 in the group Nature’s Reclamation / February 8, 2009 in the group Rural Around the World / December 13, 2008 in the group 100% / December 6, 2008 in the group Rainbows / December 5, 2008 in the group Old Barns Around the World / November 19, 2008 in the group For The Love Of Jesus / November 15, 2008 in the group Rainbows / November 11, 2008 in the Group Unwanted, Abandoned and Worth Saving / October 30, 2008 in the group Dilapidated Buildings
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New England / Brookline, MA / winter 23 December 2008 / Local Street / HDR + Orton Process / Canon PowerShot SX10IS / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—- / Top 10 (#4) in the challenge Buildings February 1, 2009 Top 10 (#4) in the challenge “Your Community” / go / on March 16, 2009 / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-—-— /
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Got inspired by some of my friend Shawn’s work on the Orton effect and tried it out too. It was really foggy so I felt the effect added to the mood. Thanks Shawn for teaching me something new.
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Tangerine trees and Marmalade skies (Lucy in the sky with diamonds - The Beatles)
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Picture yourself in a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies / Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly / A girl with kaleidoscope eyes Beatles – Lucy in the sky with diamonds (River Iver – Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK) Featured on RB Home Page on 27 Jan 2009 Also featured in the groups: The Feature Fraternity on 31 Jan 2009 Amazing Orton Effect on 30 Jan 2009 HDiR on 3 Nov 2008 and 27 Jan 2009 Inspired Art on 6 Dec 2008 and also became the group’s Avatar for December .
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Featured on the main page on 2/12/09
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Down by the banks of Thompsons Creek on The Minya Winery near Torquay, on The Great Ocean Road, Australia. Pentax istDS Camera. Three exposures bracketed to create an HDR image.
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There is nothing so special as a misty morning in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina, my favorite place in the world. The world is silent except for the soft whispers of water and mist. Pure magic. I added the Orton effect and changed the hue to create a more dream-like effect. Hope you like it!
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