Golden horse

Rarindra Prakasa and his way of turning images (into) gold was already a subject of my post some time ago. I placed links to forum with details described then. It turned out to be quite popular in Google :) .

I decided to give the technique another shot, give another photo the fairy tale look. This image is quite different and I spend a lot of time playing with and adjusting the original recipe, deciding finally to do the solid color fill layer on the background only, excluding the horse. It just looked too pale after all layers applied. I did not want to loose the brown hue, and a horse stands out now even better.