Tutorial? O RLY?

[chasethesiness]

MKAY tutorial time! I haven't written a tutorial in effing ages so this should be interesting. This tutorial was requested by 77crashes.

We're gonna be going from
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1. Layer -> Duplicate Layer -> Screen

Play around with the settings for your image. Since my base was kind of dark, I set it to 100 percent.



2. Layer -> New Fill Layer

Fill this with a yellow color. I chose #fff460. Set this to Soft Light at around 30 percent.



3. Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Hue/Saturation

Play with the setting for this. I set mine to +30.



4. Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color (sorry non-ps people!)

Reds:
cyan: -100
magenta: 0
yellow: 100
black: 100

yellows:
cyan: 100
magenta: 0
yellow: -83
black: 0

cyans:
cyan: 100
magenta: -100
yellow: -100
blacks: 0

blues:
cyan: -100
magenta: -100
yellow: -100
black: 0

Neutrals:
cyan: 58
magenta: 35
yellow: -65
black: 13



5. Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Color Balance

Midtones: -22, -20, -18
Shadows: 27, 12, 24



6. Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Curves

Input: 152
Output: 135



7. Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color

Reds:
cyan: -100
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 0

Yellows:
Cyan: 100
magenta: 0
yellow: -80
black: 0

Cyans:
cyan: 100
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 0

Neutrals:
cyan: -26
magenta: -11
yellow: -53
black: 0



8. OPTIONAL STEP!

I decided that I wanted Blake's diamond earring to shine so I merged all layers (Layer -> Merge Visible) and took the Sharpen tool to her earring. My mode was normal and my strength was 50 percent. (To get to the Sharpen tool, right click on the Blur tool and you'll see it.)



& that's it!

Remember to play around with the coloring according to your image. DO NOT copy this tutorial exactly. It is meant as a guide, NOT as an easy way to make icons.