We got the idea for the second Challenge while preparing the Breaking Out Image Components in Photoshop tutorial for publication on Graphics.com. In this extract from The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Layers Book (Focal Press), author Richard Lynch helps readers discover the fundamentals of color image separations by basing the tutorial on the images of Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. It turns out that Prokudin-Gorskii invented a camera that could take three separate red, green and blue negatives, which could then used to project a color image. He traveled extensively in the huge pre-WW1 Russian Empire and created a large body of evocative work that has survived.
In fact, the images are available in several places online and are now in the public domain. The Challenge this month, then, was to create an original work using one or more of Prokudin-Gorskii's almost 100-year old images.
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