Tutorial - Vanessa Hudgens

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[great for low saturated pictures. :]]

Go from
 to
 in 9 steps.
Involves Color Balance and Channel Mixer.
Made in PSPX.

Okey doke. Down to business. :]

Take your base, do whatever, you know the drill.

1;
Duplicate the base, set it to Screen - 34%. Depeneding on your picture, you may have to change this a little.

2;
Layers - New Raster Layer - fill with #d2ecf8 and set it to Burn - 65%.

3;
Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Hue/Saturation/Lightness.
Master ; +40.

4;
Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Color Balance.
Midtones ; -38, -13, -20.
Shadows ; 4, -2, 5.
Highlights ; 2, 7, 6.

5;
Layers - New Raster Layer - fill with #dde96f and set it to Softlight - 71%.

6; 
Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Channel Mixer.
Red: 132, -25, 10.
Green: 6, 92, -3.
Blue: -44, 50, 92.

7;
Duplicate your base, drag it to the top, and set it to Luminance (L) - 67%.

8;
Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Brightness/Contrast.
Brightness : 7.
Contrast : 8.

9;
Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Channel Mixer.
Red : 125, -30, 6.
Green : -15, 115, 11.
Blue : -58, 130, 40.

And you're done! Here's the final product again ;


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