TUTORIAL #34
GIMP Tutorial #34
Translatable.
From this
to this
, recreating this
.
Requested by Djaq, campgirl, and (kinda, not really, but sort of) lover of narnia, all from NarniaWeb.
Open your image; crop/scale/etc.
First of all, go to Colors>Levels, and input these settings.
Value: 20, 1.19, 255, 0, 255
Red: 18, 1.50, 255, 0, 255
Green: 20, 1.17, 255, 0, 255
Blue: 29, 1.23, 255, 0, 255
This adds more color and contrast, so it doesn't look so dark and unsaturated.
Duplicate that layer and go to Colors>Colorize. Input these settings:
Hue: 56
Saturation: 82
Lightness: 0
Set that layer to Soft Light 20%. It adds a bit more yellow to her skin tone, and adds yet more contrast.
(optional step: Here, I added an empty layer and painted over her lips very lightly with #d88f81. I blurred it (it's scarcely distinguishable on Normal 100%) and set it to Soft Light 100%. It just makes her lips a bit lighter and more colored than they were.)
Merge your layers.
I was afraid her face was getting too white in contrast to the blackness of the rest of the image, so I went to Colors>Brightness-Contrast to do something about that.
Brightness: -15
Contrast: 4
However, then I thought the whole thing was a little too dark, so I duplicated the layer and went off to levels again.
Value: 0, 1.08, 247, 0, 255
Red: 31, 1.35, 255, 0, 255
Green: 18, 1.15, 255, 0, 255
Blue: 9, 1.08, 255, 0, 255
Set this layer to Normal 60%. That makes it not quite as bright, but still lighter.
Merge your layers again.
It's still not quite what I want, since her face is so light but surrounded with so much darkness.
I duplicated the base layer and set it to Screen 100%, then added a layer mask, copy and pasted the base layer into the mask, and inverted the mask. Then I duplicated that layer, but changed the opacity to 50%. That continued to bring out the lights in her hair, but not so much that it looks like too much. :)
>
>
And that's it!!
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. :)
Base:
Levels:
Texture (by infinite_muse ):
A touch of Brightness/Contrast:
And that is truly it! Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. :D
Please do not copy exactly.
Translatable.
From this
to this
, recreating this
.
Requested by Djaq, campgirl, and (kinda, not really, but sort of) lover of narnia, all from NarniaWeb.
Open your image; crop/scale/etc.
First of all, go to Colors>Levels, and input these settings.
Value: 20, 1.19, 255, 0, 255
Red: 18, 1.50, 255, 0, 255
Green: 20, 1.17, 255, 0, 255
Blue: 29, 1.23, 255, 0, 255
This adds more color and contrast, so it doesn't look so dark and unsaturated.
Duplicate that layer and go to Colors>Colorize. Input these settings:
Hue: 56
Saturation: 82
Lightness: 0
Set that layer to Soft Light 20%. It adds a bit more yellow to her skin tone, and adds yet more contrast.
(optional step: Here, I added an empty layer and painted over her lips very lightly with #d88f81. I blurred it (it's scarcely distinguishable on Normal 100%) and set it to Soft Light 100%. It just makes her lips a bit lighter and more colored than they were.)
Merge your layers.
I was afraid her face was getting too white in contrast to the blackness of the rest of the image, so I went to Colors>Brightness-Contrast to do something about that.
Brightness: -15
Contrast: 4
However, then I thought the whole thing was a little too dark, so I duplicated the layer and went off to levels again.
Value: 0, 1.08, 247, 0, 255
Red: 31, 1.35, 255, 0, 255
Green: 18, 1.15, 255, 0, 255
Blue: 9, 1.08, 255, 0, 255
Set this layer to Normal 60%. That makes it not quite as bright, but still lighter.
Merge your layers again.
It's still not quite what I want, since her face is so light but surrounded with so much darkness.
I duplicated the base layer and set it to Screen 100%, then added a layer mask, copy and pasted the base layer into the mask, and inverted the mask. Then I duplicated that layer, but changed the opacity to 50%. That continued to bring out the lights in her hair, but not so much that it looks like too much. :)
>
>
And that's it!!
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. :)
Base:
Levels:
Texture (by infinite_muse ):
A touch of Brightness/Contrast:
And that is truly it! Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. :D
Please do not copy exactly.