01 gossip girl coloring
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 megaupload 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'll see how to spread tons and tons of colours from a dark picture. I used this screenshot from killcolor's journal.
So the tutorial will show how to transform the screenshot from this:
to this:
1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)
2. Since our image it's not that dark (I mean, there are lots of darker images on the web!) we must think about a first re-lightning. We want our picture to create tons of colors, don't we? So let's duplicate it twice, and set both copies to Screen. It seems so much lightened, now, but it seems that we lost all the colors too, isn't it? Well, in the next step we're goin to bring them back.
3. Let's take our Selective Coloring tool, and let's just make a mess with the colors. This picture deserves more than what we can think! We're going to give a first coloring base, which will be very important for the entire coloring, since we're gonna exagerate those colors too. Are you ready? Well, set something like:
reds: -100 | 0 | +56 | +29
yellows: -100 | +21 | +35 | -19
greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
cyan: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
blue: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
magenta: -100 | -100 | +100 | +44
whites: +30 | -32 | +33 | +100
neutrals: -9 | -7 | -14 | -2
Whoa, we made it! Can you see the difference? Those light colors will be the perfect base for our shocking coloring!
4. All of those colors darkened the picture a little, and this is what we needed. But we're going to give to the image a little contrast too, so colors will be more brilliant: let's do this by duplicating again our base, and grabbing it to the top. Set it to Luminosity > 27%
Why did we do that? Well, I don't really know XD I mean.. I usually repeat this step for almost all of the psds I create (you wil realize that in the following tutorials) since Luminosity, in our palette levels (or how do you call it in english e_e) gives so much risonance to the image, when used! This doesn't work on every picture, but when it does, the outcome will be sooo much better.
Anyway, did you remember what I said about the contrast? Let's take our Brightness/Contrast tool, and set:
+18 | +22
5. We love our image colors a lot, but it's like there are too much yellows, or oranges (it's always this annoying orange's fault ò.ò) so we're gonna give a few cyan and blue tones. Let's take our Color Balance and set:
midtones: 0 | +15 | +43
shadows: -32 | -3 | -18
lights: +5 | -7 | +31
6. Aaaargh! Where did all of those warm colors gone?? Well, don't panic, they're still there! Remember that Photoshop works with layers, and that all of our pictures always hide a lot of colors, even if we can't notice them! What we're going to do now will be another shocking step: we'll accentuate cyan tones, using our Selective coloring tool again, with a view to the final outcome. We definetely need to "delete" warm colors now, since the following two steps will call back them in an exagerate way.
In the meantime, let's think about our Selective coloring, as I already said:
reds: 0 | +8 | +9 | 0
yellows: -100 | -33 | +33 | -26
greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
cyan: +100 | -42 | -100 | +100
blue: +100 | -59 | -100 | +100
magenta: -100 | -100 | +100 | +100
whites: +100 | -37 | +45 | +10
neutrals: -15 | +4 | -32 | 0
blacks: 0 | 0 | +100 | 0
7. The last two steps, guys :) and since they're almost identical, I'm explaining them together. If you're working with this screenshot (Blair's and Serena's) you already noticed that warm colors are completely gone. But as I said before, this won't compromise our outcome! With the gradients tool's assistance, we're bringing them back in a second :)
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (I hope it's the correct translation in english; if it's not, let me know!)
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 Color Burn > 100%
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (again)
set it to Color Burn > 28%
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
I used the same color for both layers; the first just has an angle of 90°, and the second has an angle of -90°.
We finally made it! Yay!
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous post I experimented that it's a very sad thing asking for some comments, so feel free to download this psd (this means that you won't need any password). But if you just follow this tutorial, or if you're downloading the psd could you please, please let me know? It's always frustrating when you know that there's a lot of people appreciating your tribute, but nobody's telling you.
Here is the link for the .psd, anyway: thanks for reading this!
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 megaupload 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'll see how to spread tons and tons of colours from a dark picture. I used this screenshot from killcolor's journal.
So the tutorial will show how to transform the screenshot from this:
to this:
1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)
2. Since our image it's not that dark (I mean, there are lots of darker images on the web!) we must think about a first re-lightning. We want our picture to create tons of colors, don't we? So let's duplicate it twice, and set both copies to Screen. It seems so much lightened, now, but it seems that we lost all the colors too, isn't it? Well, in the next step we're goin to bring them back.
3. Let's take our Selective Coloring tool, and let's just make a mess with the colors. This picture deserves more than what we can think! We're going to give a first coloring base, which will be very important for the entire coloring, since we're gonna exagerate those colors too. Are you ready? Well, set something like:
reds: -100 | 0 | +56 | +29
yellows: -100 | +21 | +35 | -19
greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
cyan: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
blue: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
magenta: -100 | -100 | +100 | +44
whites: +30 | -32 | +33 | +100
neutrals: -9 | -7 | -14 | -2
Whoa, we made it! Can you see the difference? Those light colors will be the perfect base for our shocking coloring!
4. All of those colors darkened the picture a little, and this is what we needed. But we're going to give to the image a little contrast too, so colors will be more brilliant: let's do this by duplicating again our base, and grabbing it to the top. Set it to Luminosity > 27%
Why did we do that? Well, I don't really know XD I mean.. I usually repeat this step for almost all of the psds I create (you wil realize that in the following tutorials) since Luminosity, in our palette levels (or how do you call it in english e_e) gives so much risonance to the image, when used! This doesn't work on every picture, but when it does, the outcome will be sooo much better.
Anyway, did you remember what I said about the contrast? Let's take our Brightness/Contrast tool, and set:
+18 | +22
5. We love our image colors a lot, but it's like there are too much yellows, or oranges (it's always this annoying orange's fault ò.ò) so we're gonna give a few cyan and blue tones. Let's take our Color Balance and set:
midtones: 0 | +15 | +43
shadows: -32 | -3 | -18
lights: +5 | -7 | +31
6. Aaaargh! Where did all of those warm colors gone?? Well, don't panic, they're still there! Remember that Photoshop works with layers, and that all of our pictures always hide a lot of colors, even if we can't notice them! What we're going to do now will be another shocking step: we'll accentuate cyan tones, using our Selective coloring tool again, with a view to the final outcome. We definetely need to "delete" warm colors now, since the following two steps will call back them in an exagerate way.
In the meantime, let's think about our Selective coloring, as I already said:
reds: 0 | +8 | +9 | 0
yellows: -100 | -33 | +33 | -26
greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
cyan: +100 | -42 | -100 | +100
blue: +100 | -59 | -100 | +100
magenta: -100 | -100 | +100 | +100
whites: +100 | -37 | +45 | +10
neutrals: -15 | +4 | -32 | 0
blacks: 0 | 0 | +100 | 0
7. The last two steps, guys :) and since they're almost identical, I'm explaining them together. If you're working with this screenshot (Blair's and Serena's) you already noticed that warm colors are completely gone. But as I said before, this won't compromise our outcome! With the gradients tool's assistance, we're bringing them back in a second :)
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (I hope it's the correct translation in english; if it's not, let me know!)
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 Color Burn > 100%
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (again)
set it to Color Burn > 28%
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
I used the same color for both layers; the first just has an angle of 90°, and the second has an angle of -90°.
We finally made it! Yay!
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous post I experimented that it's a very sad thing asking for some comments, so feel free to download this psd (this means that you won't need any password). But if you just follow this tutorial, or if you're downloading the psd could you please, please let me know? It's always frustrating when you know that there's a lot of people appreciating your tribute, but nobody's telling you.
Here is the link for the .psd, anyway: thanks for reading this!