About the Image(s)

This is an image of an old barn in a former slave village in South Carolina. Magic occurred to produce the final product, and I forgot to tag it! So, I’ve tried to recreate it, but didn’t quite get the size, shading and perspective correct.

1. Applied a B/W adjustment layer. But I wanted to bring back a little color in the barn. So

2. I applied a solid color adjustment layer in a red t one. I made this an Overlay blender at 9% opacity.

3. I applied a mask to the solid color layer and masked out everything but the barn.

4. Merged up. Seen in Original 2.

5. I applied a Topaz Textures 1950s print preset and played with all of the settings to get just what I wanted. The layer uses the Lighten blend mode.

6. Applied Topaz Impressions Van Gogh I.

7. To give the canvas some texture, I used Filter > Filter Gallery > Texturizer > Canvas.

8. I wanted to bring out more of the interior, so I added an exposure adjustment layer and added a mask to it, turning the mask to black and painting white over the window area.

9. This is where my memory and lack of documentation has failed me. I do not remember how I got to this final step. But I’m pretty sure of the last steps, just not of the tweeking inside of the Topaz options.