You're good at Photoshop; you should be able to do this yourself. Once you've got the photo in black and white increase the contrast, then duplicate the layer and make the new layer a "multiply" layer and set its opacity to around 50% (this makes the blacks blacker and the whites stay the same - a classic astronomy trick for photos of nebulæ); then duplicate that as a new multiply layer and apply the "diffuse glow" filter and set the opacity to around 20%; that will get it nice and contrasty but with slightly glowy highlights, like good old Agfa HP5 grainy black and white film (any of your readers my age or older will be sighing with fond memories of the classic moody, grainy HP5). Last, I re-converted the photo to RGB and gave it a slightly blue tint to make it look like an old Miles Davis LP cover. Simple. Hee hee.
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You're good at Photoshop; you should be able to do this yourself.
Once you've got the photo in black and white increase the contrast, then duplicate the layer and make the new layer a "multiply" layer and set its opacity to around 50% (this makes the blacks blacker and the whites stay the same - a classic astronomy trick for photos of nebulæ); then duplicate that as a new multiply layer and apply the "diffuse glow" filter and set the opacity to around 20%; that will get it nice and contrasty but with slightly glowy highlights, like good old Agfa HP5 grainy black and white film (any of your readers my age or older will be sighing with fond memories of the classic moody, grainy HP5).
Last, I re-converted the photo to RGB and gave it a slightly blue tint to make it look like an old Miles Davis LP cover.
Simple.
Hee hee.
Ha ha where did you get that brain from must have been your Dad could not have been me!
Never the less I will give it a go.
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