This is a portrait of our good friend Neil, and as it's made its way onto his Facebook profile I guess it's fair to say that it turned out OK :-)

As the processing was also quite interesting – there are three separate layers for the black and white conversion – I've also added it as this week's Mini-PSD. If you're interested there's some further info here:

http://www.chromasia.com/tutorials/online/mini_psds.php

And finally (if you missed my last two entries), we're offering a 25% discount on our Photoshop tutorials to celebrate Easter, so if you've been thinking about improving your post-production skills, now would be a great time to sign up! Please note though: this offer ends at midnight today.

http://www.chromasia.com/tutorials/online/

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4.40pm on 26/3/11 Canon 5D Mark II EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM 64mm f/5.6 1/50 aperture priority +1/3 evaluative 400 no RAW Camera Raw Photoshop CS5 none none