Contours

[mart44]

An image made using Xara's contour tool.

Make a copy of the original photo and downsize it.
Put it to one side.
Make a copy of either image and make it very much smaller.
Place the very small photo centrally inside the larger one.
Use the Contour Tool to make a multi-step contour between the two.
Place the smaller photo (the one that was put aside) in the middle of the resulting image.
Give it a centred drop-shadow
Type the writing with a font of choice, give it a white outline (stroke). Fill it with the photo as the background.

[Lillias]

This is quite an eye-catcher Mart. Being as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I tried to come up with my own version using PSE.
I used the extrude filter to give the effect on the background layer.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Image from morguefile.

[mart44]

Looks brilliant Lillias

[Lillias]

Sept 18, 2023 15:20:50 GMT mart44 said:

Looks brilliant Lillias

Thank you so much Mart...

[mart44]

It's so colourful and that extrude filter has been used to great effect. Just, well ...really good.

[mart44]

This is more or less the same procedure as the first post but the subject is a close-up of a 1920 x 1080 resolution computer monitor. The colours will depend on what is on the screen when photographed and I can't remember what that was. No middle picture in this one. The contour going from large to small gives an interesting effect in itself. The number of steps in the contour is in excess of 50.

[jackscrap]

Wow, loving all of your experiments, so amazing what can be achieved.