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Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my mediafire
account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the
coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D
Today we will see how to turn a screenshot/picture into a pretty yellow lightened one. I used this screenshot from killcolor's journal.
to this:
1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)
2. Since yellows will lighten up the picture, we need to darken it a little, for first. So, duplicate your base and set it to Hard light > 100%
3. Now, pink colors: they seem to be too much dark, now. The picture has
pretty much black, and we don't like it at all. So let's take the Selective Coloring, and set something like this:
red: -36 | +9 | +14 | +15
yellow: -100 | -100 | -60 | +100
cyan: +100 | +100 | +100 | +100
blue: +100 | +100 | -100 | +100
white: +23 | -51 | +44 | -33
neutrals: -22 | -9 | -17 | 0
4. Looks like Mini's face is still too much dark, isn't it? Let's fix it with the Levels. Set:
1 | 1,49 | 255
And we're done. We have the perfect base for our coloring. In the next steps we're going to work on the colors only.
5. Do you see that beautiful orange/pink/yellow mix on Mini's face, in the 2nd preview? Well, since her skin on our image is too much pink (I can't see any orange or yellow) we'll try to fix it, little by little. Let's take the Color Balance and set:
midtones: +56 | +41 | +72
shadows: +25 | 0 | -37
lights: -46 | +8 | +5
Now we have our gold hair back, new lights on the picture and still some pink on the skin.
6. What about starting to darken the picture again? We have to do something like a cover, which will mix all the new colors together, so that it will blend them under a new vision. Let's do this just by duplicating our base.
Duplicate your base > set to the top of your layers > Luminosity > 49%
7. Yay, tha's cool! The new few steps will be very important for our coloring, so pay attention with this. All of our coloring is still too much "natural" for our outcome: we need to exasperate all of those yellows/oranges, and turn them into a very very bright pink. Selective coloring, then!
red: -68 | 0 | 0 | 0
yellow: -76 | 0 | -47 | 0
cyan: -25 | -100 | -100 | -100
neutrals: +26 | +22 | +24 | -32
8. Looks pretty lighten up. But it still deserves two more steps: what about adding those yellow gradients on the picture?
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
Set it to Multiply > 56%
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
Set it to Multiply > 42%
And you're done *v*
You can sharpen the picture, if you want (Filters > Sharpen, I sharpened mine) but this is optional, so you can ignore this step.
Anyway, here is the .psd file for those who want to play around with layers and colors, without following this annoying tutorial. I had pretty much fun writing this, so I hope you'll enjoy this too :D
Thanks for being here, have fun :)
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my mediafire
account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the
coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D
Today we will see how to turn a screenshot/picture into a pretty yellow lightened one. I used this screenshot from killcolor's journal.
to this:
1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)
2. Since yellows will lighten up the picture, we need to darken it a little, for first. So, duplicate your base and set it to Hard light > 100%
3. Now, pink colors: they seem to be too much dark, now. The picture has
pretty much black, and we don't like it at all. So let's take the Selective Coloring, and set something like this:
red: -36 | +9 | +14 | +15
yellow: -100 | -100 | -60 | +100
cyan: +100 | +100 | +100 | +100
blue: +100 | +100 | -100 | +100
white: +23 | -51 | +44 | -33
neutrals: -22 | -9 | -17 | 0
4. Looks like Mini's face is still too much dark, isn't it? Let's fix it with the Levels. Set:
1 | 1,49 | 255
And we're done. We have the perfect base for our coloring. In the next steps we're going to work on the colors only.
5. Do you see that beautiful orange/pink/yellow mix on Mini's face, in the 2nd preview? Well, since her skin on our image is too much pink (I can't see any orange or yellow) we'll try to fix it, little by little. Let's take the Color Balance and set:
midtones: +56 | +41 | +72
shadows: +25 | 0 | -37
lights: -46 | +8 | +5
Now we have our gold hair back, new lights on the picture and still some pink on the skin.
6. What about starting to darken the picture again? We have to do something like a cover, which will mix all the new colors together, so that it will blend them under a new vision. Let's do this just by duplicating our base.
Duplicate your base > set to the top of your layers > Luminosity > 49%
7. Yay, tha's cool! The new few steps will be very important for our coloring, so pay attention with this. All of our coloring is still too much "natural" for our outcome: we need to exasperate all of those yellows/oranges, and turn them into a very very bright pink. Selective coloring, then!
red: -68 | 0 | 0 | 0
yellow: -76 | 0 | -47 | 0
cyan: -25 | -100 | -100 | -100
neutrals: +26 | +22 | +24 | -32
8. Looks pretty lighten up. But it still deserves two more steps: what about adding those yellow gradients on the picture?
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
Set it to Multiply > 56%
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
Set it to Multiply > 42%
And you're done *v*
You can sharpen the picture, if you want (Filters > Sharpen, I sharpened mine) but this is optional, so you can ignore this step.
Anyway, here is the .psd file for those who want to play around with layers and colors, without following this annoying tutorial. I had pretty much fun writing this, so I hope you'll enjoy this too :D
Thanks for being here, have fun :)