Nilcolesy "Orton Effect"

[rpcrowe]

I received an email from Nichole S. Young who posts under the name: Nicolesy on what she calls the "Orton Effect"

This is not what I thought the Orton Effect was. I always thought he Orton Effect concerned blur and diffusion. This just increases the "pop" of am image.

Her simple instructions:

1. duplicate layer
2. Filter - Blur - Gausian Blur until no detail is left in image
3. Change blending mode to overlay and reduce opacity considerably


Here is an edited version of the image without her "Orton Effect"


I don't see anything I could not do by bumping the contrast and the saturation a bit - do you?

Now with the effect:

[Manfred M]

From the "horse's mouth" so to speak, here is what Michael Orton has to say about the Orton effect.



http://www.michaelortonphotography.com/ortoneffect.html

[FootLoose]

Thanks for that link Manfred, very interesting to learn about his original technique.

Richard, the method Nicole describes is obviously an attempt at imitating the orton affect and similar to what many other internet gurus describe, although hers is probably reduced to its simplest. Some suggest gausian blur at about 50r and then overlay or soft light blend mode, but importantly, adjust the opacity to your personal taste. Then brush the effect out where you don't want it.

[george013]

I don't see much difference in the images. A little bit different vignetting.

The "orton" effect seems to me a double exposure, one in-focus and one out-focus. I linked this one before, several years ago already. http://paintedbylight.blogspot.com/2...-world-of.html

George