Extra Processing: Edges

The weather today has been miserable: throwing it down with rain, crappy light, not inspirational at all. Wanting to stay creative to some extent I decided to have a play with photoshop and see what I could learn. The result, well, have a look below.

It certainly sheds new light on this image and I can see how this could get addictive.

The method itself is relatively simple. Having opened the image in photoshop open up the channels palete and view the red, green and blue channels individually to see which offers the most contrast. Having chosen the best channel duplicate it. Next, working with the duplicated channel, select “filter – stylise – find edges”. The image will become something resembling a line drawing. Choose image – adjustments – levels and bring up the blacks to the point where the image looks its best. Choose whether or not to apply any sharpening, delete the original channels leaving just the new one, and save the file. Bobs ya uncle, one line drawing from a photograph.