Semi-Desaturated SHEF Tutorial

**Shazbot** · July 13, 2006, 08:46 PM

SHEF stands for Super High End Filtering

NOTES
I'm using Elements 4.0
Many thanks to haz-life (I don't think anyone here knows him) for teaching how to do this

Just another Example

**MasterAdnin** · July 13, 2006, 10:48 PM

Great tutorial man, you just got some more rep points

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Peace,
Adnan

**Renly** · July 13, 2006, 11:43 PM

I agree, I think we should post more tutorials in the PotW forum.

**dragases1453** · July 14, 2006, 02:06 AM

Very good tutorial

**Captain_Paulentineous** · July 14, 2006, 07:18 PM

Great Tutorial man!

**Shazbot** · July 20, 2006, 12:02 AM

Only four replies and a hundred views...

and thancks for the support!

**Hannibal Barca** · July 20, 2006, 10:07 AM

WOW that looks great. I like that example at the end, very nice. I have photoshop 7 i think, would I be able to attempt this on that?

Did you use this effect in this weeks potw entry?

**Renly** · July 20, 2006, 01:46 PM

I'm pretty sure you can do it with 7.0, you may just have to take a few different steps. I'll check and see.

**Renly** · July 20, 2006, 01:58 PM

This is what I got using 7.0. The only adjustment I made was instead of going to enhance (a tab which 7.0 doesn't have) - adjust color - remove color, I just brought up the hue/saturation box (ctrl + u) and put the saturation all the way to the left.

**Caius Britannicus** · July 20, 2006, 02:05 PM

Shft+Ctrl+U also auto desaturates an image.

**Zuwxiv** · August 06, 2006, 06:43 AM

I'm trying to do this in GIMP but I can't get the layers right. Has anone done it in GIMP or knows an easier way to do it?

I've tried the "Softglow" effect as well, without success. If nothing else works, I could upload each of the layers and paste them here, if anyone is willing to help.

Edit: I figured it out, but it looks a little different in GIMP.

Original:

I kind of like the original more. Submitted to PotW...