Ok i haven't been on in a while, but I have just started fiddling around with photoshop, and i thought this picture i took at a classic car show was just screaming out!! Let me know what you guys think!!
I tend to get lost in PhotoShop as well, so I can understand your absence and it's nice to see you posting again. I'm not sure if you were going for an effect, but it seems to me on my monitor that you are. It's interesting.
I was going for an effect, i shot this in RAW, converting in lightroom, cropped the image to just the middle portion of the grill, and increasing the vignetting to darken the corners. I darkened the exposure, desaturated most of the red, except the actual jaguar badge, which had its red enhanced. The cat itself after the conversions had some strange colour casts so i selected that and converted that element to B&W. It took me ages!! its definitly one for me to print and hang!!
♥PJ♥