Help with photoshop

[Uncle Pug]

Thanks for the TIP on the mandrake process. It wasn't as easy with PS elements 3.0 as I couldn't figure out how to use the *actions* but this was the result of following the step by step instructions on the link above:

Original as shot with a Pentax Optio S50 F/2.6 1/40 sec:

I'm really looking forward to playing with this some more. The picture above wasn't one of my better ones and that is why I chose it to play with in case I accidently messed up the original.

I sure wish there was a way to make the automated actions thing work with PS Elements 3.0 though!

 

[Charlie99]

Thanks for the TIP on the mandrake process. It wasn't as easy with PS elements 3.0 as I couldn't figure out how to use the *actions* but this was the result of following the step by step instructions

I took a look at your original and saw that it had a fair amount of red channel info. Attached is the result of just doing levels, than a bit of "shadows and highlights", using PE 3.0.

Where Mandrake really excels is where the red channel is nearly useless.

 

[Uncle Pug]

Cool Charlie.... I'm going to go play with PS some more. I've only had it a week and really haven't done much of anything yet.