Tutorial #10; Dawn

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Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2
Difficulty: Kinda advanced, with so many selective coloring and such.
Translatable: Depends on your image
PSD file included! (Geez, I never made any of it, y/y?)

1. First, set off your base and set it to screen around 50%. It's actually manual. So play with yours.


2. Selective coloring time!
REDS
Cyan: -100
Yellows: +80


3. Hue/saturation layer time!
MASTERS
Saturation: +13


4. New color fill layer: #000033. Set to exculsion at 70%


5. Channel Mixer layer:
REDS
Red: +128
Green: +28
Blue: -62


6. Time for EXTREME more selective coloring. Oh glee.
REDS:
Cyan: -50
Magenta: +11
Yellow: -26
YELLOWS:
Cyan: +66
Magenta: +13
Yellow: -14
WHITES:
Cyan: -15
Magenta: +12
Yellow: -14
Black: -14
NEUTRALS:
Cyan: +9
Magenta: -7
Yellow: -6
Black: -5


7. Another new color fill layer with #cccc99. Set to soft light at 70%


8. Then, for making the image a bit darker (Yeah, mine's a bit too light after the color fill) go to new adjustment layer > curves
INPUTS: 33
OUTPUTS: 40


9. You can add texture too! I used this texture.


Other results with this tutorial:




.PSD FILE HERE.