The Orton Effect

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The Orton Effect is named after Michael Orton who first used the technique is a sandwich of two images, one in focus the other out of focus. Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant have both used the technique successfully in their work as well.

This tutorial show you how to recreate this in Photoshop etc.

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