My second entry to Mono Monday,

Here's the original picture:

Called this picture sleeping child just as it is. Taken with Canon Rebel XTi edited with PhotoShop CS3. I simply turned it into a black & white picture then played around with the Tint colors to achieve this sepia look-a-like. Hope it fits the Mono Monday rules (smile hopefully at Gary). Wanna join the fun? Just go here.

Hope everyone will have a great week. I'll be super busy in the next few days as my father are returning to Congo on Wednesday but I'll try to visit your Mono Monday entries. Thanks for dropping by & take care!

This is my first attempt to join Monochromatic Monday.

Thanks to Gary for doing this, I've always love Black & White pictures but I'm an amateur when it comes to playing around with Photoshop (including in taking pictures!). This is a picture I've been 'playing' around with. It's a picture of one of the the wall relic found at my parents' new house. This whole house is built in Balinese style and have so many beautiful things on it.

And after tweaking it using Photoshop CS3 this is what I come up with:

Here's the step by step:

1. I opened the image in Photoshop CS3 → Image → Adjustments → Desaturate

2. Now that the image is in black & white I go back to Adjustments → Levels then I just play around with it until I find the right levels.

3. Then I duplicate the first document → flatten the image (go to Layer → Flatten image)

4.  Duplicate the current layer then add Gaussian Blur (I used 8.0 pixels)

5. Make a new layer then go to Layer → Merge Visible then set the current layer

6. Select the layer "Background Copy" then set the current layer again and flatten the image.

7. Click Filter → Other → High Pass (I used 2.0 pixels) then set the current layer again and flatten the image.

8. Click Image → Adjustments  → Channel Mixer (adjust it to your liking)

9. All done.

Any suggestion is welcome! Have a nice week everyone!