The shot was a conventional slide image taken at the
St Laurent cemetery in Normandy and scanned on Canon's FS4000 US film scanner
into Photoshop.
The rose bush was cut out and put on a separate layer and the background
was given the modified pseudo-infrared treatment detailed in Digital Photo Art
(May/June 2001). The grain layer was added to increase the overall I-R effect.
This pseudo-IR is due to Clive Haynes and here is an outline:
The layer to be manipulated is duplicated (layer 0 copy) and copy selected;
Hue/saturation Adjustment layer applied with saturation slider moved to extreme
left to produce monochrome image;
Layer 0 copy now given significant gaussian blur - trial and error but 30 pixels
as a starting point;
Blending mode changed to 'lighten' - image now has the IR radiant glow;
Glow exaggerated by applying a new 'curves' adjustment layer and shifting curve
to left - trial and error again;
Blending mode changed to 'hard light' to bring back some shadow depth and
'opacity' changed to give desired amount (try 60%-70%);
New layer now created at top of stack - this is the 'grain' layer;
Grain layer filled with 50% grey and blending mode changed to 'overlay';
'Noise' added to grain layer - again trial and error to give the final image.
