Pink and Blue Accents
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Step 1: Crop the image. Duplicate original image and set it to Screen 75%
Screen lightens up images.
Step 2: Duplicate original image again and put this layer on top. Set it to Linear Light 100%
This sharpens the contrast of colors, whites and shadows.
Step 3: Duplicate original image again, put this layer on top. Set it to Saturation 100%
The saturation layer tones it down a little and gives it some depth.
Step 4: Go to Layer-->new adjustment layer-->selective coloring.
Reds: [cyans -100; magenta +100]
Yellows: [cyan +53' magenta +100;yellow -54;black +49]
Whites: [magenta +22; yellow -100; black +100]
Basically, making the hair less blonde and more pink. Tweaking the "reds" in a selective coloring layer means that your changing the color of the reds and no other color in the image.
Step 5: Go to Layer-->new adjustment layer-->Hue/Adjustment
Reds: [saturation +35]
Yellows: [hue -56; saturation -28]
Cyans: [ saturation +52; lightness +100]
Blues: [saturation +70; lightness +61]
Final touches to tweak the image to the right color. Hue/saturation makes colors brighter and more vibrant, which you can't really do with selective coloring.
Step 6: Make a new layer and with a soft black brush at low opacity and low flow, color out the parts you don't want.
Step 7: Find a pretty white thing and paste it into a new layer on top of everything. Double click the layer to open up the "Layer Style" window. Check outer glow. Set blend mode to Color Dodge. Change the Outer Glow color to #960624. Color Dodge tends to give a nice glow to images, but of course it only works when there is color underneath it. A bottom layer of really light colors (and white), as well as really dark colors (and black), don't give very good color dodge glows.
Phew! I hope this actually helps! Also posted in icon_tutorial
http://www.mediafire.com/?orw11y4mytj
from (click for bigger)
to
Step 1: Crop the image. Duplicate original image and set it to Screen 75%
Screen lightens up images.
Step 2: Duplicate original image again and put this layer on top. Set it to Linear Light 100%
This sharpens the contrast of colors, whites and shadows.
Step 3: Duplicate original image again, put this layer on top. Set it to Saturation 100%
The saturation layer tones it down a little and gives it some depth.
Step 4: Go to Layer-->new adjustment layer-->selective coloring.
Reds: [cyans -100; magenta +100]
Yellows: [cyan +53' magenta +100;yellow -54;black +49]
Whites: [magenta +22; yellow -100; black +100]
Basically, making the hair less blonde and more pink. Tweaking the "reds" in a selective coloring layer means that your changing the color of the reds and no other color in the image.
Step 5: Go to Layer-->new adjustment layer-->Hue/Adjustment
Reds: [saturation +35]
Yellows: [hue -56; saturation -28]
Cyans: [ saturation +52; lightness +100]
Blues: [saturation +70; lightness +61]
Final touches to tweak the image to the right color. Hue/saturation makes colors brighter and more vibrant, which you can't really do with selective coloring.
Step 6: Make a new layer and with a soft black brush at low opacity and low flow, color out the parts you don't want.
Step 7: Find a pretty white thing and paste it into a new layer on top of everything. Double click the layer to open up the "Layer Style" window. Check outer glow. Set blend mode to Color Dodge. Change the Outer Glow color to #960624. Color Dodge tends to give a nice glow to images, but of course it only works when there is color underneath it. A bottom layer of really light colors (and white), as well as really dark colors (and black), don't give very good color dodge glows.
Phew! I hope this actually helps! Also posted in icon_tutorial