Creative Effects Challenge No 168 - The Sabattier Effect
Feb 5, 2022 0:31:15 GMT
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Post by tonyw on Feb 5, 2022 0:31:15 GMT
Armand Sabatier was a French zoologist known for his studies of comparative anatomy of animals, and for his work in photography, discovering and publishing in 1860 the Sabattier effect, also known as pseudo-solarisation. It basically involved exposing a film to light during the development process which tended to make light areas dark and dark areas light and created some interesting effects.
Fast forward 162 years and we now no longer need to mess with chemicals and can also use colour so here's a 2022 version.
A good place to start is this simple tutorial and video from Bill Barber that you can find here .
One trick not mentioned in this video is that if you find the effect a bit too much you can tone it down by adjusting the fill opacity of the Color Fill layer. In Photoshop there's a slider (below the Opacity slider) but in Elements you need to use a shortcut. Shift and a number. Shift-9 takes the Fill to 90% , Shift-8 to 80% and so on. Special thanks to Sepiana for checking that this works in the latest Elements versions.
In playing with it I finished up with a stack of adjustment layers (shown below) and by going back and tweaking each adjustment and turning some off and on I could create a whole variety of effects - including black and white with the top two layers (a hue/saturation layer to desaturate and a levels adjustment layer to adjust the tones)
I'm sure you'll come up with many other possibilities starting with the basic Color Fill layer set to Difference blend mode. Have fun and looking forward to seeing your creations.
Here are four versions of the original image (far left from Cosmic Timetraveler on Unsplash) and below it the stack of layers I used all of which are adjustable.
One more using a starter image from Bailey Zindel on Unsplash
Tony
Fast forward 162 years and we now no longer need to mess with chemicals and can also use colour so here's a 2022 version.
A good place to start is this simple tutorial and video from Bill Barber that you can find here .
One trick not mentioned in this video is that if you find the effect a bit too much you can tone it down by adjusting the fill opacity of the Color Fill layer. In Photoshop there's a slider (below the Opacity slider) but in Elements you need to use a shortcut. Shift and a number. Shift-9 takes the Fill to 90% , Shift-8 to 80% and so on. Special thanks to Sepiana for checking that this works in the latest Elements versions.
In playing with it I finished up with a stack of adjustment layers (shown below) and by going back and tweaking each adjustment and turning some off and on I could create a whole variety of effects - including black and white with the top two layers (a hue/saturation layer to desaturate and a levels adjustment layer to adjust the tones)
I'm sure you'll come up with many other possibilities starting with the basic Color Fill layer set to Difference blend mode. Have fun and looking forward to seeing your creations.
Here are four versions of the original image (far left from Cosmic Timetraveler on Unsplash) and below it the stack of layers I used all of which are adjustable.
One more using a starter image from Bailey Zindel on Unsplash
Tony
