Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:02 pm
yes, I use Photoshop CS. my technique doesn't work with PS Elements...
I took your coloured version, went to "channel mixer", selected monochrome mode, reduced the blue channel (since the stair has quite some blue in it and I wanted it to be darker compared to the wall), rised the green and red channel accordingly. then I selected a new white and black point using the gradation curve. after that I slightly corrected the tonal range. after that I ran high-level USM (unsharp mask, 0.5 pix, 50%, 0 threshold)
a lot to do but it's a thing of practice... (your pic took me 5min).
if you like, please feel free to take my version for your page.
cheers /blu