cold light..
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 add some pink and a little bit yellow lightning to a regular picture. I used this screenshot from homeofnutty's gallery.
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. Let's duplicate our base once, and let's set it to Screen, as usual. I'll keep repeating that this is the best way to prepare our image to be abused a little. Once you did this, duplicate the base twice, and set the copies (from the bottom to the top) this way:
Screen > 76% (opacity)
Soft light > 30%
Here is a stamp to show you the correct order of the layers.
3. Selective coloring, guys! Our image definetely need to be revitalized, or red colors need that, better. Set something like this:
reds: -100 | -21 | -7 | +33
yellows: +100 | +35 | -13 | +8
whites: -31 | 0 | +100 | -7
neutrals: +5 | +2 | -10 | 0
blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +25
4. There's still too much pink, and we would love to see some yellow on it, don't you think. The next following two steps will get yellow colors stronger, so let's take our Hue/Saturation tool and set:
0 | +15 | 0
5. Another yellow adding step. Level > New fill layer > Solid color > #dfbf0d.
This is a simple dark yellow. Set the level to Overlay > 10%.
Add another solid color layer, with this color: #b89a72. Set the level to Pin light > 37%. This will soften our coloring, since we're about to give a huge shocking re-coloring to our image. And we added a nice red lightning too!
6. I was talking about a shocking re-coloring: well, that's the right moment for that! Let's take a first gradient.
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 this layer to Overlay > 52%
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 this layer to Luminosity > 38%
What we just did, was giving a perfect base for the following step, in which all of the colors (or the most, anyway) will be remixed together in a new, brilliant, purple coloring.
7. We just have to take our Selective Coloring tool!
reds: -82 | 0 | 0 | +62
yellows: -100 | -16 | +10 | -1
greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
whites: +100 | -40 | -100 | -69
neutrals: -15 | 0 | -49 | 0
8. The last step, guys! This will give to the coloring a nice white fader, and will attenuate the previous step.
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 this layer to Luminosity > 34%
And you're done!
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 add some pink and a little bit yellow lightning to a regular picture. I used this screenshot from homeofnutty's gallery.
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. Let's duplicate our base once, and let's set it to Screen, as usual. I'll keep repeating that this is the best way to prepare our image to be abused a little. Once you did this, duplicate the base twice, and set the copies (from the bottom to the top) this way:
Screen > 76% (opacity)
Soft light > 30%
Here is a stamp to show you the correct order of the layers.
3. Selective coloring, guys! Our image definetely need to be revitalized, or red colors need that, better. Set something like this:
reds: -100 | -21 | -7 | +33
yellows: +100 | +35 | -13 | +8
whites: -31 | 0 | +100 | -7
neutrals: +5 | +2 | -10 | 0
blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +25
4. There's still too much pink, and we would love to see some yellow on it, don't you think. The next following two steps will get yellow colors stronger, so let's take our Hue/Saturation tool and set:
0 | +15 | 0
5. Another yellow adding step. Level > New fill layer > Solid color > #dfbf0d.
This is a simple dark yellow. Set the level to Overlay > 10%.
Add another solid color layer, with this color: #b89a72. Set the level to Pin light > 37%. This will soften our coloring, since we're about to give a huge shocking re-coloring to our image. And we added a nice red lightning too!
6. I was talking about a shocking re-coloring: well, that's the right moment for that! Let's take a first gradient.
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 this layer to Overlay > 52%
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 this layer to Luminosity > 38%
What we just did, was giving a perfect base for the following step, in which all of the colors (or the most, anyway) will be remixed together in a new, brilliant, purple coloring.
7. We just have to take our Selective Coloring tool!
reds: -82 | 0 | 0 | +62
yellows: -100 | -16 | +10 | -1
greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
whites: +100 | -40 | -100 | -69
neutrals: -15 | 0 | -49 | 0
8. The last step, guys! This will give to the coloring a nice white fader, and will attenuate the previous step.
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 this layer to Luminosity > 34%
And you're done!
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!