Megan Fox Tutorial
Tutorial Time!
Program used: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
From yeah... to YES!!
This tutorial was requested by yrprocks66 (so thank her, not me. Haha...)! This tutorial will help you bring in a little more color to the already beautiful Megan Fox. It's very easy to achieve, so follow along and I show how to brighten up the Fox.
First, let's find a base! I went ahead and created some for you to use, they are all compatible with this tutorial. All of the images were obtained from Megan-Fox.Net (which I recommend for all your Megan needs!) and some of the Megan images from the Brian Bowen Smith photo shoot is what I initially created this coloring for. I've come to find several other images that work well with this tutorial as well (hence the bases from other photo shoots and events).
Got your base? Awesome! Let's begin, shall we...
Our first layer of business is a Hue/Saturation/Lightness layer. So go to Layers--> New Adjustment Layer--> Hue/Saturation/Lightness... and under the Adjustment tab, we're going to edit the Master coloring. Change the Saturation level to 44 and click OK. You should get something like:
Next, let's eliminate some of this redness and create a Color Balance level. Go to Layers--> New Adjustment Layer--> Color Balance... Under the Adjustment tab, punch in these sets of numbers:
Tone Balance: Midtones
- Color levels: -31, -15, 0
Tone Balance: Shadows
- Color levels: 14, 5, 8
Tone Balance: Highlights
- Color levels: -13, 7, -17
Leave the Preserve luminance option checked and click OK. This is the result of that step:
Now, this next step is easy! All you have to do is duplicate the Color Balance layer from the previous step and... that's it! You should get something similar:
Once again, very easy step. Duplicate the Color Balance level from the previous step, but this time, to get rid of some of that brightness, we're going to change the properties to a low Difference blend mode. Go to Layers--> Properties.... Switch over to the General tab and click the arrow to the dropdown list in the Blend mode category. Select Difference and set the Opacity level to 10 and click OK. You get something like:
Now, once again, duplicate the Color Balance level from the previous step (do you notice how lazy I am at times?) and we're going to set it in a Hard Light blend mode. And again, go to Layers--> Properties.... Switch over to the General tab and click the arrow to the dropdown list in the Blend mode category. Select Hard Light and set the Opacity level to 15 and click OK. You should get something like:
For these next and final steps, what I did was, to bring a little more softness to her, I used white blur textures and set them in various places on the icon, usually around her hair and they're set pretty low on a Screen (or Lighten, for these textures, I suggest Screen) blend mode pretty much less than a 20 opacity (why for me they are set so low is because I duplicated texture layers so many times and rotated them that all of the low opacity levels added up). All of the blur textures were created by me (and they're really easy to make!!), but I'll go ahead and share some of them with you (most were just created for your use):
Set these textures to the blend mode Screen (Layers--> Properties...). I set whichever textures I use to very low opacity levels like 8, 10 15, etc, because like I stated above, I used quite a few, but for you, the opacity levels might even be in the 40s, depending on how many and which ones you use and also, how light you want your icon to be. The first two textures were the actual ones I used, but I did duplicate, mirror, and flip the textures around several times. Do whatever you want! In the end, after I finished messing with the textures, I got this:
...or
...or even
...the possibilities are endless!
And you're done! Unless you'd rather do...
An ALTERNATIVE to all the texture placings, is to simply create one layer (though I prefer the textures, because I don't like every piece of the icon lightened the same way)! Now, instead of doing the previous steps with the different blur textures, do this. Go to Layers--> New Raster Layer. Once you got the blank layer up, fill it will all white (use the Flood Fill Tool), yup, just plain white. "Ahh! Where'd Megan go?" Haha, just lower the opacity level to a mere 8, don't even have to change the blend mode. (Layers--> Properties--> Opacity). This is what you'll get:
See, pretty much the same thing, no? Let's compare...
-->
Now, by placing the opacity on just 8, I made the icon slightly darker than the other icon that was used with the blur textures. The opacity doesn't have to be exactly 8, it can be 9 or 10 also (careful, much higher, the icon will look awkwardly ghostly...). Maybe you didn't even use that many textures to make the icon that light to begin with, that's fine, it's your icon! Do as you please! Add another layer, use another blur texture, add text even, do whateva!! I hope this helped you guys out in making some fabulous icons or even banners! Need any help, have any questions, let me know! I'll gladly help! ♥
It's almost Christmas, and I come to you with a sneak peek of more Megan tutorials to come!! Interested?
UP NEXT: Mixed Batch of ICONS plus REQUESTS
LATER: SUGGEST ~ the band, Queen
Program used: Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
From yeah... to YES!!
This tutorial was requested by yrprocks66 (so thank her, not me. Haha...)! This tutorial will help you bring in a little more color to the already beautiful Megan Fox. It's very easy to achieve, so follow along and I show how to brighten up the Fox.
First, let's find a base! I went ahead and created some for you to use, they are all compatible with this tutorial. All of the images were obtained from Megan-Fox.Net (which I recommend for all your Megan needs!) and some of the Megan images from the Brian Bowen Smith photo shoot is what I initially created this coloring for. I've come to find several other images that work well with this tutorial as well (hence the bases from other photo shoots and events).
Got your base? Awesome! Let's begin, shall we...
Our first layer of business is a Hue/Saturation/Lightness layer. So go to Layers--> New Adjustment Layer--> Hue/Saturation/Lightness... and under the Adjustment tab, we're going to edit the Master coloring. Change the Saturation level to 44 and click OK. You should get something like:
Next, let's eliminate some of this redness and create a Color Balance level. Go to Layers--> New Adjustment Layer--> Color Balance... Under the Adjustment tab, punch in these sets of numbers:
Tone Balance: Midtones
- Color levels: -31, -15, 0
Tone Balance: Shadows
- Color levels: 14, 5, 8
Tone Balance: Highlights
- Color levels: -13, 7, -17
Leave the Preserve luminance option checked and click OK. This is the result of that step:
Now, this next step is easy! All you have to do is duplicate the Color Balance layer from the previous step and... that's it! You should get something similar:
Once again, very easy step. Duplicate the Color Balance level from the previous step, but this time, to get rid of some of that brightness, we're going to change the properties to a low Difference blend mode. Go to Layers--> Properties.... Switch over to the General tab and click the arrow to the dropdown list in the Blend mode category. Select Difference and set the Opacity level to 10 and click OK. You get something like:
Now, once again, duplicate the Color Balance level from the previous step (do you notice how lazy I am at times?) and we're going to set it in a Hard Light blend mode. And again, go to Layers--> Properties.... Switch over to the General tab and click the arrow to the dropdown list in the Blend mode category. Select Hard Light and set the Opacity level to 15 and click OK. You should get something like:
For these next and final steps, what I did was, to bring a little more softness to her, I used white blur textures and set them in various places on the icon, usually around her hair and they're set pretty low on a Screen (or Lighten, for these textures, I suggest Screen) blend mode pretty much less than a 20 opacity (why for me they are set so low is because I duplicated texture layers so many times and rotated them that all of the low opacity levels added up). All of the blur textures were created by me (and they're really easy to make!!), but I'll go ahead and share some of them with you (most were just created for your use):
Set these textures to the blend mode Screen (Layers--> Properties...). I set whichever textures I use to very low opacity levels like 8, 10 15, etc, because like I stated above, I used quite a few, but for you, the opacity levels might even be in the 40s, depending on how many and which ones you use and also, how light you want your icon to be. The first two textures were the actual ones I used, but I did duplicate, mirror, and flip the textures around several times. Do whatever you want! In the end, after I finished messing with the textures, I got this:
...or
...or even
...the possibilities are endless!
And you're done! Unless you'd rather do...
An ALTERNATIVE to all the texture placings, is to simply create one layer (though I prefer the textures, because I don't like every piece of the icon lightened the same way)! Now, instead of doing the previous steps with the different blur textures, do this. Go to Layers--> New Raster Layer. Once you got the blank layer up, fill it will all white (use the Flood Fill Tool), yup, just plain white. "Ahh! Where'd Megan go?" Haha, just lower the opacity level to a mere 8, don't even have to change the blend mode. (Layers--> Properties--> Opacity). This is what you'll get:
See, pretty much the same thing, no? Let's compare...
-->
Now, by placing the opacity on just 8, I made the icon slightly darker than the other icon that was used with the blur textures. The opacity doesn't have to be exactly 8, it can be 9 or 10 also (careful, much higher, the icon will look awkwardly ghostly...). Maybe you didn't even use that many textures to make the icon that light to begin with, that's fine, it's your icon! Do as you please! Add another layer, use another blur texture, add text even, do whateva!! I hope this helped you guys out in making some fabulous icons or even banners! Need any help, have any questions, let me know! I'll gladly help! ♥
It's almost Christmas, and I come to you with a sneak peek of more Megan tutorials to come!! Interested?
UP NEXT: Mixed Batch of ICONS plus REQUESTS
LATER: SUGGEST ~ the band, Queen