I took a photograph (40 years ago) inside the corridor of arches at The Coliseum in Rome, Italy. The photograph was not particularly interesting to look at. It was not a bad composition. It was a bad quality photograph. Below is a scan of that original image. I scanned it with a subtle sepia tone effect thinking that would make it a nice photo. Holy gladiator, was I wrong.
The Coliseum 1967 – photo by Marc Blake, a photographer from Fresno
I really needed something more interesting for my viewers to enjoy and decided to see just how much detail I could get out of this boring photograph. I used Adobe Photoshop, a combination of filters by Topaz Labs and an interesting frame to create the following representation of my photograph. Click on the video link below the image to see how this was done.
WARNING: The video tutorial happens very quickly!
The Coliseum 1967 – enhanced with Photoshop and a variety of plugin filters
photo by Marc Blake, a photographer from Fresno
Grungy border image from Fotolia.com