paranoid park: 2 tutorials

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#1:
how to go from

to

1. choose a base (this works especially well with very dark blue images)
2. new Color Balance layer (do NOT check "preserve luminosity")
    s: 19,9,32
    m: 59,66,38
    h: 9,15,-21
3. new Selective Coloring layer
    y: -100,0,100,0
    g: 100,0,100,0
    c: 100, 0, -100,100
    b: 100,0,0,100
    w: 100,0,0,0
    b:  0,0,0,50
4. now make a new layer and press SHIFT, CTRL, ALT, and E at the same time (this merges all the visible layers into one). then set this layer to Soft Light.

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#2:
how to go from 

to 

1. choose a base. here i chose a screencap from the movie, paranoid park.  
2. new Curves layer
    red: 125, 153
    green: 132, 155
    blue: 126, 156
(this lightens up the base, while slightly intensifying the colors)
3. new Levels layer
    rgb: 25, 1.44, 255
(this softens the image)
4. new Selective Coloring layer
    y: 0,0,100,0
    g: 100,-100,100,0
    c: 100,0,-100,0
    b: 100,0,0,0
    m: 0,100,0,0
    w: -100,-25,0,0
5. new Hue/Saturation layer
    s: +18
6.  finally...new Levels layer
    rgb: 25, 1.44, 255
(same as step 3)

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