A nice Visual Effect

Today I wanted to get a headline image for my site, with a Gantt chart. I started from:

which is a bit dull. I created then a photo filter layer with the following attributes:

• Filter: warming filter
• Density: 25% (I think that's the default)
• Blending mode: Screen

The result was this pretty image:

To add a bit of oomph to it, I added an exposure layer:

• Exposure: -0.28
• Offset: +0.0882
• Gamma correction: 0.34
• Blending mode: Color burn, Fill 35%

Lo and behold:

HTH,

Credits: Header image CC BY 3.0 by cr103 - stockarch.com.