So since I know more about the power of using layers and blending modes in Photoshop these days, I wanted to see how much of the background I could "knock out" by simply laying different blending modes on top of each other.
Note, you can try this with some of your own photos if you have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
I opened the photo in Photoshop. The first layer in Photoshop is always called "Background". I immediately made a copy of the background layer. There are several ways of doing that. I like to use the keyboard shortcut which is Ctrl+J.
The new layer will be on top of the original layer, and it will be called "Layer 1". Note that I have highlighted the blending mode which is by default "Normal" and with 100% opacity. The photo looks exactly the same as the original at this point.
You can click on the dropdown next to Normal and cycle through the blending modes. Some will make a difference, some won't. Some make the picture darker, some lighter, some funky. You can control how much of the bottom layer shows through by lowering the opacity of the top layer.
I found that the mode called "color burn", which is one of the modes that darkens an image, removed almost all of the background and changed the color of the plant to a very attractive green-blue with the purples and blues of the edge lines emphasised.
This is how it looked after doing that:
The outcome, completed from start to finish in no more than 5 minutes and without a sore wrist can can be viewed in the plant photo gallery.
Below you can watch a video of some of my photos of plants.
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