The “Oroton Effect”

Updated with a few more below

Some-time poster Andy did some of this on the Literary Cafe blog, and I thought it looked way cool.

I took one of my favorites from the recent genealogy road trip:

Original

And turned it into this:

Ortonized

I went a little far, but shades of Maxfield Parrish!

Here’s a further step, with an adjustment layer that increases the saturation and lightness:

What do you think?

updated

I tried a few others. Here are some cacti from Sandy Hook a few weeks ago, pre-processing:

…and after:

And the Paulinskill Viaduct before:

…and after:

Interesting how it does something different to each. Also interesting how I can amuse myself for so long with a Photoshop 101 trick like this.