It's been a while since I last posted a tutorial, so I thought I might like to add this.

In this tutorial you will learn to take a photograph of a cathedral and make it gothic-like.

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First you are going to need a picture of a cathedral. So go to www.google.com and image search "cathedral".

Next you’ll need to make it black and white for that press CTR+Shift+U

Now press CTR+L to adjust the levels. Play with the settings because each picture requires it’s own settings. For mine I used Input Levels: 10, 0.64, 136, Output levels: 0, 245.

The next step is adjusting curves. Press CTR+M, and adjust so it looks somewhat like this...

http://img35.exs.cx/img35/861/curves0of.jpg

Now the last step is to adjust the contrast. Go to Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast. Set the contrast to about +20-25. And now you're done!

My original: http://img35.exs.cx/img35/4205/gothiccathedral29hz.jpg

My result: http://img35.exs.cx/img35/6687/gothiccathedral35hc.jpg

once again, your tutorials do not fail to dissapoint.

not bad, next time instead of linking the images just use the img tag (use it like [img ] url [/img ] (no spaces))

i dont really like the end effect too much but it can be tweaked to fit my needs, good work

I dont like the effect either, or at least in the example you showed the image is just too bright and lacks detail. I would shift the levels histo-graph more to left to fix this.

Awesome tutorial. I really like the effect this produces. It is almost like a sort of old black and white photograph. Nice work.

I like the effect, but I think the image you posted could have been a little darker so it would look more ancient....

Good job!



-Shackman

good job man