When using film, Bas Relief images were produced using color transparency film together with a high contrast contact black and white image place together slightly out of register.
Today with Photoshop we can still produce a similar type of image as follows:
- Start off with an original color image
- Duplicate the image and convert it to black and white
- Convert the black and white image to a Bas Relief. Filter / Sketch / Bas Relief and adjust the Bas Relief to your liking
- Increase the contrast of the Bas Relief image
- Combine the original color image with the Bas relief image and adjust the opacity of the Bas Relief layer to suit
- Flatten the two layers and give the saturation a boost.
You will now have a Photoshopped Bas relief image as shown above.
Original image.
Bas relief black and white image.