the runaways.
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
{ created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Today we will see how to spread light blue, yellow and pink colors from a medium dark screenshot. I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.
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. What do we usually do before working on a picture? Of course, we duplicate the base and we set it to Screen! As I always say, this is the best way to give to the image a new lightning: there's nothing better than a screened base.
3. Time for a photo filter, people :D I usually play with random tools, before I decide which way to take, and I ended up with a good result with this. You only have to select a "Warmer filter (85)" or something, since I'm not sure how translated from italian to english is, here is a useful stamp which shows you which color you have to pick.
Levels > Adjustments > Photo Filter
This will darken light blue colors a little: we're going to lighten the image up, and it may happen that some parts of it could pixelate.
4. Let's pay attention to the image: we have lighten it up and applied a filter, but some blacks are still gone. We're gonna take them back with one of my favourite tools.
Layers > New adjustment layer > Exposure
+0,34 | -0,0294 | 1,26
Exposure is one of the most useful tools in Photoshop, since it gives so much risonance to the image, and it gives a new brightness/contrast to our screenshot too! We have our black colors back, that's great!
5. Now we have to think about a first re-coloring. I thought that a good, acid base would have been perfect for this image, so I took the Color Balance tool, and set:
midtones: +55 | +22 | -32
shadows: -15 | +2 | +42
lights: -32 | -41 | -63
Why did I say "acid"? Well, natural colors are completely gone, now. All I can see is a lot of orange and a little bit of green, but there's no more light blue or pink: you may think that we're ruining the image XD we're not ruining it: we're just preparing a good base for the final transfiguration.
6. This step will give to the image an additional acid tone, so don't be scared :)
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 Soft light > 74%
All we can see now, are acid green colors: that's simply perfect. We're about to transform our image in a multi-colored one.
7. We just need another gradient layer, since black tones are still too weak. And what about adding a yellow tone? :)
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 Soft light > 39%
8. This is the right moment for a Selective Coloring: we're going to turn all the greens into light blue, pink and yellow tones.
reds: -69 | 0 | -24 | +11
yellows: -77 | -25 | -12 | -25
greens: +27 | +24 | -100 | -18
cyan: +100 | -41 | -21 | +20
whites: -100 | 0 | 0 | -18
neutrals: +3 | +16 | -23 | 0
What the hell happened?? Image tones are completely different! Where did all the greens have gone? That's because of selective coloring's magic :)
9. The last step before we're done. You can ignore this, but I think that this layer gives a lovely tone to our coloring.
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 Lighter color > 18%
You made it! :D
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous posts 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 this .psd, anyway: thanks for understanding!
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
{ created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Today we will see how to spread light blue, yellow and pink colors from a medium dark screenshot. I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.
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. What do we usually do before working on a picture? Of course, we duplicate the base and we set it to Screen! As I always say, this is the best way to give to the image a new lightning: there's nothing better than a screened base.
3. Time for a photo filter, people :D I usually play with random tools, before I decide which way to take, and I ended up with a good result with this. You only have to select a "Warmer filter (85)" or something, since I'm not sure how translated from italian to english is, here is a useful stamp which shows you which color you have to pick.
Levels > Adjustments > Photo Filter
This will darken light blue colors a little: we're going to lighten the image up, and it may happen that some parts of it could pixelate.
4. Let's pay attention to the image: we have lighten it up and applied a filter, but some blacks are still gone. We're gonna take them back with one of my favourite tools.
Layers > New adjustment layer > Exposure
+0,34 | -0,0294 | 1,26
Exposure is one of the most useful tools in Photoshop, since it gives so much risonance to the image, and it gives a new brightness/contrast to our screenshot too! We have our black colors back, that's great!
5. Now we have to think about a first re-coloring. I thought that a good, acid base would have been perfect for this image, so I took the Color Balance tool, and set:
midtones: +55 | +22 | -32
shadows: -15 | +2 | +42
lights: -32 | -41 | -63
Why did I say "acid"? Well, natural colors are completely gone, now. All I can see is a lot of orange and a little bit of green, but there's no more light blue or pink: you may think that we're ruining the image XD we're not ruining it: we're just preparing a good base for the final transfiguration.
6. This step will give to the image an additional acid tone, so don't be scared :)
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 Soft light > 74%
All we can see now, are acid green colors: that's simply perfect. We're about to transform our image in a multi-colored one.
7. We just need another gradient layer, since black tones are still too weak. And what about adding a yellow tone? :)
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 Soft light > 39%
8. This is the right moment for a Selective Coloring: we're going to turn all the greens into light blue, pink and yellow tones.
reds: -69 | 0 | -24 | +11
yellows: -77 | -25 | -12 | -25
greens: +27 | +24 | -100 | -18
cyan: +100 | -41 | -21 | +20
whites: -100 | 0 | 0 | -18
neutrals: +3 | +16 | -23 | 0
What the hell happened?? Image tones are completely different! Where did all the greens have gone? That's because of selective coloring's magic :)
9. The last step before we're done. You can ignore this, but I think that this layer gives a lovely tone to our coloring.
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 Lighter color > 18%
You made it! :D
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous posts 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 this .psd, anyway: thanks for understanding!