10. Classic Solarisation Photo Effect in Photoshop

"Solarisation has been used since the very beginning of photography but was made famouse by Man Ray when he rediscovered the technique by accident in the 1930′s. The effect consists mainly of partially reversed tones in an image recorded on a negative or a photographic print. Basically the dark areas appear light or the light areas appear dark. The effect was usually caused by accidentally exposing an exposed plate or film to light during developing. That said, results were usually unpredictable and good results were obtained by luck and lots of practice. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you a simple way of getting similar results in Photoshop without having to lock yourself in the darkroom!" 

-Photoshop Road Map

I tried a few photos out for this and none of them really "did" it for me.  Here is the before picture of a paper mache skull I used before decorating it here:

here it is with solarisation:

9. Simple Orton Effect for Dreamy Soft Focus Images

"In this tutorial I’m going to show you how I generally apply a soft focus trick known as the Orton Effect after it’s creator photographer Michael Orton. In the film days, this effect was achieved by overlaying two or more images of an identical scene with different exposures and focus on slide film. To do this, you had to use a tripod so your images would align perfectly.

Nowadays, you can achieve the same results with just a single image using Photoshop. This technique will add a vintage dream like feel to your images very suitable for portraits, weddings, landscapes and children photography."

I used this image I took of a sunset in Fishing Bay, VA:

                    

8. Creating Cooltones and Warmtones

Using yesterday's tutorial I used the same image to create cool tones:

and warm tones:

6. Retro Comic Book Effect

I had the most fun tonight working on this project.  The tutorial is well written and has great visual aids to help you as you move along the steps. 

Here is the original:

Here is the retro comic book version: