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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
{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
This time we'll see how to create a strange mixage of dark orange, brown and yellow tones . 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. I think this will be the first coloring in which we don't have to screen the base, eheh. We don't need much lightning, this time, since I thought to create something darker. So leave the main base alone and let's just take the Levels tool.
38 | 1,00 | 255
and set this layer to Color. You may think that this didn't help us, since I bet that no one will see the difference: and you're right. All you have to do now is duplicate this layer thrice, so we'll have four copies of the same layer. When you'll be finished, the picture will seem so more colorful.
3. Now another, main step: the curves. I personally hate this tool, but I must admit that when you need your picture to be refined with only a couple of colors, this helps a lot. What we'll be trying to do now is adding a lot of warm colors, without ruining the main lightning. So pay a lot of attention with this! We're going to use all of the available tones.
- RGB (output: 255; input: 210)
- red (point #1: output: 186; input: 196)
(point #2: output: 75; input: 58)
- green (point #1: output: 200; input: 223)
(point #2: output: 68; input: 78)
(point #3: output: 162; input: 157)
- blue (point #1: output: 90; input: 84)
(point #2: output: 179; input: 158)
(point #3: output: 215; input: 202)
(point #4: output: 206; input: 228)
4. Yeah, it seems to be a lot of red! Now let's think about that: we need some colder tones, and the Channel Mixer will be perfect for that, since even this tool is perfect when you don't want to change a thing about the lightning in your picture.
green: +21 | +79 | +32 | -12
blue: +11 | -20 | +122 | -4
5. I simply love these warm and dark colors: we can see some brown tones, a light yellow, and a dark red. We only need to lighten the mixage a bit, by adding a new color: a soft brown.
Layer > New fill layer > #5e4d43 > Exclusion > 33%
6. We're almost finished, guys. This will be one of the final adjustments for a perfect coloring. We need to bring our dark tones back, and for that we're using the Color Balance tool.
midtones: +21 | +11 | +23
shadows: +51 | +67 | +75
highlights: +23 | +39 | 0
The darker it gets, the cooler it will be in the end. So let's just duplicate this layer once (you'll have two color balance layers at the top of the levels).
7. The final step, and you'll be done! We need to give a final adjustment to our warm colors (dark yellow, brown and dark red) so let's take our magical, beloved Selective Coloring tool, and set something like this:
reds: -30 | -7 | +7 | -8
yellows: +100 | -68 | -16 | 0
greens: 0 | -100 | -100 | +100
cyan: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
blue: +17 | -7 | +80 | +100
magentas: -25 | +36 | +88 | 0
whites: -89 | -100 | -100 | +100
neutrals: -13 | -9 | 0 | 0
blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +3
and set this layer to 81% (opacity) but it still changes image by image.
You've made it!
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 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
{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
This time we'll see how to create a strange mixage of dark orange, brown and yellow tones . 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. I think this will be the first coloring in which we don't have to screen the base, eheh. We don't need much lightning, this time, since I thought to create something darker. So leave the main base alone and let's just take the Levels tool.
38 | 1,00 | 255
and set this layer to Color. You may think that this didn't help us, since I bet that no one will see the difference: and you're right. All you have to do now is duplicate this layer thrice, so we'll have four copies of the same layer. When you'll be finished, the picture will seem so more colorful.
3. Now another, main step: the curves. I personally hate this tool, but I must admit that when you need your picture to be refined with only a couple of colors, this helps a lot. What we'll be trying to do now is adding a lot of warm colors, without ruining the main lightning. So pay a lot of attention with this! We're going to use all of the available tones.
- RGB (output: 255; input: 210)
- red (point #1: output: 186; input: 196)
(point #2: output: 75; input: 58)
- green (point #1: output: 200; input: 223)
(point #2: output: 68; input: 78)
(point #3: output: 162; input: 157)
- blue (point #1: output: 90; input: 84)
(point #2: output: 179; input: 158)
(point #3: output: 215; input: 202)
(point #4: output: 206; input: 228)
4. Yeah, it seems to be a lot of red! Now let's think about that: we need some colder tones, and the Channel Mixer will be perfect for that, since even this tool is perfect when you don't want to change a thing about the lightning in your picture.
green: +21 | +79 | +32 | -12
blue: +11 | -20 | +122 | -4
5. I simply love these warm and dark colors: we can see some brown tones, a light yellow, and a dark red. We only need to lighten the mixage a bit, by adding a new color: a soft brown.
Layer > New fill layer > #5e4d43 > Exclusion > 33%
6. We're almost finished, guys. This will be one of the final adjustments for a perfect coloring. We need to bring our dark tones back, and for that we're using the Color Balance tool.
midtones: +21 | +11 | +23
shadows: +51 | +67 | +75
highlights: +23 | +39 | 0
The darker it gets, the cooler it will be in the end. So let's just duplicate this layer once (you'll have two color balance layers at the top of the levels).
7. The final step, and you'll be done! We need to give a final adjustment to our warm colors (dark yellow, brown and dark red) so let's take our magical, beloved Selective Coloring tool, and set something like this:
reds: -30 | -7 | +7 | -8
yellows: +100 | -68 | -16 | 0
greens: 0 | -100 | -100 | +100
cyan: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
blue: +17 | -7 | +80 | +100
magentas: -25 | +36 | +88 | 0
whites: -89 | -100 | -100 | +100
neutrals: -13 | -9 | 0 | 0
blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +3
and set this layer to 81% (opacity) but it still changes image by image.
You've made it!
PSD | credits required | comments make my day :)