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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 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
{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Today we will see how to give a new lightning to a medium lightned picture, and how to add a lot of strong colors such as white, red, violet and yellow. I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.
So the tutorial will show you how to turn the screenshot from this:
to this:
1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)
2. We finally stopped here, and I'm so glad since this is one of my favourite coloring: I created this without thinking, but the outcome really surprised me: with the right picture, this will give you a lot of joy. All right, then, let's begin with duplicating our base twice! We're gonna set the first copy to Screen, and the second layer to Soft light: here's a stamp, just to show you the correct order of the layers. Right, why did we just set the second copy to soft light? As I always say, simplicity always win. By setting the first copy to screen we gave to our screenshot an additional lightning; by setting the second copy to soft light, we strenghtened some of the main colors which are laying in the picture: yellows, whites, a little of blacks.
3. Ok, before we continue following this tutorial, I warn you: there will be a lot of gradient layers. I usually hate following tutorials full of gradients, so I won't blame you if you're going to ignore this tutorial u_u now, it's time to learn. Here we are: let's take a journey, destination:
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 Overlay > 43%
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Soft Light > 49%
4. That's what happened to our image: we added a lot of white tones, but we covered them with all of that yellow tones. Don't panic, we still have all of those whites, we're gonna use them later. The next step will add a lot of contrast. Let's take our precious Color Balance tool, and set something like this:
midtones: +66 | -64 | +54
shadows: -88 | +11 | +20
lights: -23 | +11 | -25
5. Again, don't panic. It seems that our colors just faded away, but they're still here, but not that visible. And this is why I love programs like Photoshop: this just won't destroy any color, if you don't want to! We just gotta find a way to cover them and rescue them later, like we're going to do in the following step. Do you remember when we strenghtened all of those yellow tones? This is the perfect moment to call them back. What we need now is just another gradient layer.
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Saturation > 100%
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Saturation > 48%
6. What did I just say? Hell yeah, tones of colors, finally! Our screenshot bursts, we almost made it. I only want to make you notice a couple of things: we still have our saturation, our colors and all the lightning. This is why you always have to play with Photoshop, you don't have to work with it; in the end, it will look like you've been having fun all along, and your graphic will always look young. Anyway, here are the latest adjustments, and then we'll be done.
Layer > New fill layer > Solid color > #ff00fc
set this layer to Luminosity > 27%
This will adjust all of those strong highlights which may pixelate your image, and it's the perfect prelude for the next, last step.
7. Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Soft light > 100%
What a perfect ending for our coloring! Don't you think? ^_-
And you're done!
PSD | credits required | comments make my day :)
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
{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Today we will see how to give a new lightning to a medium lightned picture, and how to add a lot of strong colors such as white, red, violet and yellow. I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.
So the tutorial will show you how to turn the screenshot from this:
to this:
1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)
2. We finally stopped here, and I'm so glad since this is one of my favourite coloring: I created this without thinking, but the outcome really surprised me: with the right picture, this will give you a lot of joy. All right, then, let's begin with duplicating our base twice! We're gonna set the first copy to Screen, and the second layer to Soft light: here's a stamp, just to show you the correct order of the layers. Right, why did we just set the second copy to soft light? As I always say, simplicity always win. By setting the first copy to screen we gave to our screenshot an additional lightning; by setting the second copy to soft light, we strenghtened some of the main colors which are laying in the picture: yellows, whites, a little of blacks.
3. Ok, before we continue following this tutorial, I warn you: there will be a lot of gradient layers. I usually hate following tutorials full of gradients, so I won't blame you if you're going to ignore this tutorial u_u now, it's time to learn. Here we are: let's take a journey, destination:
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 Overlay > 43%
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Soft Light > 49%
4. That's what happened to our image: we added a lot of white tones, but we covered them with all of that yellow tones. Don't panic, we still have all of those whites, we're gonna use them later. The next step will add a lot of contrast. Let's take our precious Color Balance tool, and set something like this:
midtones: +66 | -64 | +54
shadows: -88 | +11 | +20
lights: -23 | +11 | -25
5. Again, don't panic. It seems that our colors just faded away, but they're still here, but not that visible. And this is why I love programs like Photoshop: this just won't destroy any color, if you don't want to! We just gotta find a way to cover them and rescue them later, like we're going to do in the following step. Do you remember when we strenghtened all of those yellow tones? This is the perfect moment to call them back. What we need now is just another gradient layer.
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Saturation > 100%
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Saturation > 48%
6. What did I just say? Hell yeah, tones of colors, finally! Our screenshot bursts, we almost made it. I only want to make you notice a couple of things: we still have our saturation, our colors and all the lightning. This is why you always have to play with Photoshop, you don't have to work with it; in the end, it will look like you've been having fun all along, and your graphic will always look young. Anyway, here are the latest adjustments, and then we'll be done.
Layer > New fill layer > Solid color > #ff00fc
set this layer to Luminosity > 27%
This will adjust all of those strong highlights which may pixelate your image, and it's the perfect prelude for the next, last step.
7. Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Soft light > 100%
What a perfect ending for our coloring! Don't you think? ^_-
And you're done!
PSD | credits required | comments make my day :)