Bannack Grunge Effects

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1. Edited Stove
2. Bannack Brick:5-15-09; 11 a.m.; Bannack School House; f 5.0; 1/500; Sonny CDMavica
3. Stove Burner: 5-15-09; 1 p.m.; Bannack; f 2.1; 1/30; Sony CDMavica; Macro

First, I lightened the stove image using an Adjustment Layer. To create the grungy text on this image, I used the font Stamp Act. I used the Horizontal Type Mask Tool on the Bannack Brick image and copied this cutout to the image of the stove. I added a drop shadow and bevel to the word "Bannack." Then I used the Skia font to type "what's cookin' in."I also added a drop shadow to this phrase. Finally, I added a slight burned border to the entire image.



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1. Edited Bannack Beauty
2. Bannack Brick: 5-15-09; 2 p.m.; Hotel Meade; f 8.0; 1/1000; Sony CDMavica; Macro
3. Audrey: 5-15-09; 11 a.m.; Bannack School House; f 5.0; 1/500; Sonny CDMavica

I took shot 3 while we were listening to the tour guide at Bannack talk about the school house. Audrey just happened to be leaning against the post in this cute pose, so I whipped out my camera. Unfortunately, the shot was overexposed, and even changing the levels in Photoshop did little to save this cute picture. To remedy this, I created antique grunge effect on the image. To do this, I used the Overlay blending mode to combine the original photo of Audrey with a solid rust-brown colored layer at 44% opacity. Then I opened the image of the brick and used the Channel function to select certain pixels in the image. I dragged this brick outline onto the image of Audrey and reduced the opacity to 75%. I then added two adjustment layers with Hard Light Blending Modes. I added the border and a fun Western font at the end.




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1. Grungy Magic Chef
2. Rusty Barrel: 5-15-09; 3 p.m.; Bannack; f 2.8; 1/250; Sony CDMavica; Macro
3. Magic Chef: 5-15-09; 2 p.m.; Bannack; f 2.1; 1/30; Sony CDMavica; Macro

To create the grunge effect on this shot of the Magic Chef stove, I used the same process listed above to overlay the texture of the barrel onto the original image of the stove. I added a burned border after I finished grunge-ifying the photo.