Tutorial: Natalie Portman
I love helping out at coloring_help!
For this one, I'm actually going to show you how I recreate colorings along with the actual coloring itself.
original by kopgirl
:
mine
This is how the image looks just cropped. Looking at it, you can already tell it needs to be alot brighter, so we go to...
Duplicate the base twice. Set the first one to Screen 100%, the second one to Screen 38%. Now do you see how her eyes look almost purplish? Well...
Grab a new color fill layer with e8d4f4 (a light purple) and set it to color burn. This changes the shadows to have a purplish color. Now, the glaring obvious: her skin is waaay to bright.
Another color fill layer will solve that! I set fbddc0 to Multipy at 34%. Now, the coloring is close, but it still doesn't seem quite right...
Enter the Color Balance layer! This one, I just needed a subtle change, and so I set my midtones to 12/0/-10. It's still not perfect, but that's pretty darn close.
Now, of course, we need to sharpen and do the finishing touches! You can, of course, do it at the beginning, but I like to save it for the end so I know what it will really look like.
For this one, I'm actually going to show you how I recreate colorings along with the actual coloring itself.
original by kopgirl
:
mine
This is how the image looks just cropped. Looking at it, you can already tell it needs to be alot brighter, so we go to...
Duplicate the base twice. Set the first one to Screen 100%, the second one to Screen 38%. Now do you see how her eyes look almost purplish? Well...
Grab a new color fill layer with e8d4f4 (a light purple) and set it to color burn. This changes the shadows to have a purplish color. Now, the glaring obvious: her skin is waaay to bright.
Another color fill layer will solve that! I set fbddc0 to Multipy at 34%. Now, the coloring is close, but it still doesn't seem quite right...
Enter the Color Balance layer! This one, I just needed a subtle change, and so I set my midtones to 12/0/-10. It's still not perfect, but that's pretty darn close.
Now, of course, we need to sharpen and do the finishing touches! You can, of course, do it at the beginning, but I like to save it for the end so I know what it will really look like.