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Pseudo Solarising

 
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Solarising is one of those "wet" photography techniques which requires a darkroom, a flash of light and a lot of luck. Of course PaintShop has its own built in solarising function (off the colours menu), but you don't have a lot of control over what it does.

This tutorial gives you a quick way to create images in a solarised style, but also giving you flexibility over how you manipulate the solarising effect.

Step 1:

  1. Take one image
  2. Copy it, and paste as new layer (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-L)
  3. Now set the blend mode of the two layers to "Difference"
  4. If your image is totally black, then you need to shift the upper image just a slight fraction.

Step 2:

  1. Now apply Colours, Negative Image to the top layer
  2. Again, slightly adjusting the position of the upper layer, gives you quite a different solarising effect.

Variation:

  1. In this example, the blend mode is set to "Exclusion" instead of difference, but again with a negative image in the upper layer.

 
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