a first success
I had an early success using some hints and rumors I had heard from those days long ago in which I played with lense filters and black and white film and my slr camera making a digital color image look like an old black and white processed dramatic photo print.
The problem with this is that I would like to script it and you probably cannot call it a 'layer effect' if you have to manually adjust each image.
The rotated original, the value layer and red multiplied.
a different photograph
For this different image, I got from the original on the left to the exemplificated version on the right by rotating, reducing it to its red and value components and using a multiplied and equalized layer of its red to filter the view its value.
Other than the rotation, everything that was done to this image was automatic.
The rotated original, the value layer and red multiplied.
The value equalized layer, the final image of red multiplied and equalized with value and the rotated original.