Face to Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People

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I like infrared photography. To simulate the IR ef-

fect, I went to FilterDistortDiffuse Glow and

played around with the sliders until I was pleased

with the pseudo-IR effect. When you use this fil-

ter, don’t settle for your first choice of settings.

Experiment. Take control of this fun filter. Also,

make sure your Background Color is white.

One of the fun and creative things we can do in

Photoshop is to turn a snapshot into a more artistic

image. That’s what I did with this color photograph

that I took of my friend, Andrea Laborde. She was

relaxing in an old Bentley during a break in a work-

shop I was teaching in Salem, Massachusetts.

The first step in the snapshot-to-artistic-image

process was to convert the color file to a black-

and-white image. To do that, I used the Black and

White adjustment I described in Lesson 39.

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The above image is an example of how the Diffuse

Glow filter altered my image.

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To dress up my newly created image, I applied

one of the Camera frames in PhotoFrame Pro 3, a

Photoshop plug-in from onOne Software (http://

www.ononesoftware.com). This screen grab shows

just a few of the options—Frames, Background,

and Border—that are available in this creative

plug-in.

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Once the digital frame was applied, my image

took on a more creative look.