the wait is over.
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 :)
Any trouble with dark images? Would you love to keep all of those magical shadows, when you're creating something colorful? Well, this is the perfect tutorial for you :D I used this screenshot from capturedgracemusic.
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. Here we are, with a brand new coloring. As I wrote in the summary, this will be your main salvation when you have to work on a dark screenshot, based on cold colors such as dark blue and grey. So I decided to work on a Game of Thrones screenshot, since this movie is filled with a lot of cold tones, like this screenshot. It's always pretty hard working on dark images like this, and I didn't even take one of the darkes from the gallery. I'll definetely create a tutorial for that, sooner or later, even if the technique used is the same. All right, let's just do this. Since this image is pretty dark, we begin with duplicating the base twice, and let's just set both copies to Screen, so we're already half done!
3. Look at those wonderful lights *o* the image has come to life, yeah! You see, it often depends by the quality of the image: if you're working on an high quality one, you can feel free to adjust it with no worries, and this is that case. Our image didn't pixelate, so we're not afraid to keep on working on that. What about creating a first, soft color level? Let's take our Color Balance tool and let's think about a base tone. I'm thinking of a violet.
midtones: +48 | -13 | +2
shadows: +31 | +49 | +41
highlights: +81 | +47 | +85
4. All right, another advice for you. You can often play with different tones: we just created a soft violet tone, but we can turn it into something slightly different by darkening it. Violet and blue are such as wonderful tones, imho. Why don't we try to match them together? You must know that I usually appreciate warm colorings, but the violet/blue couple is interesting too. Let's take the Exposure tool and let's set something like:
+0,34 | -0,0724 | 1,40
5. We brang all of our beloved shadows back, isn't it great? And that's exactly what I was talking about! Creating some vivid colors without deleting our shadows. It's time to play with some tones. What about some blue? Or, better: what about some blue and violet? Didn't we notice that these tones looks great together? It's time for some gradients.
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp) > set to Saturation > 100% (opacity)
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp) > set to Linear light > 100% (opacity)
The second gradient presents a very dark yellow, it's an almost green: it gives to the image a warm tone.
6. The last step, guys: you see, dark images are pretty easy. This just took us less time than ever! Let's take our Selective Coloring tool and let's darken the white tones a little, since they might be too lightened. You won't be able to see the difference, anyway, since this is just a soft adjustment.
whites: +100 | 0 | +36 | 0
if your image still looks too bright, you can try to repeat this step and darken the white tones again.
All of the colorings in the world always hide a double face inside of them: when I finished this one, for example, I thought that a final adjustment could give to the image a final and stunning touch, so I kept on working, but I felt like the second outcome didn't match with the first coloring, so I decided to break the .psd up. The first group contains the previous coloring, and the second group contains a second version of the first coloring: I just added a Curves layer.
blue: (output: 125; input: 255)
Instead of a cold mixage of colors, such as this:
we're going to have a completely different coloring, mixed up with some warm yellow/orange/brown tones:
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I think that both colorings are awesome ^^
PSD | credits are always required, children e_e
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 :)
Any trouble with dark images? Would you love to keep all of those magical shadows, when you're creating something colorful? Well, this is the perfect tutorial for you :D I used this screenshot from capturedgracemusic.
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. Here we are, with a brand new coloring. As I wrote in the summary, this will be your main salvation when you have to work on a dark screenshot, based on cold colors such as dark blue and grey. So I decided to work on a Game of Thrones screenshot, since this movie is filled with a lot of cold tones, like this screenshot. It's always pretty hard working on dark images like this, and I didn't even take one of the darkes from the gallery. I'll definetely create a tutorial for that, sooner or later, even if the technique used is the same. All right, let's just do this. Since this image is pretty dark, we begin with duplicating the base twice, and let's just set both copies to Screen, so we're already half done!
3. Look at those wonderful lights *o* the image has come to life, yeah! You see, it often depends by the quality of the image: if you're working on an high quality one, you can feel free to adjust it with no worries, and this is that case. Our image didn't pixelate, so we're not afraid to keep on working on that. What about creating a first, soft color level? Let's take our Color Balance tool and let's think about a base tone. I'm thinking of a violet.
midtones: +48 | -13 | +2
shadows: +31 | +49 | +41
highlights: +81 | +47 | +85
4. All right, another advice for you. You can often play with different tones: we just created a soft violet tone, but we can turn it into something slightly different by darkening it. Violet and blue are such as wonderful tones, imho. Why don't we try to match them together? You must know that I usually appreciate warm colorings, but the violet/blue couple is interesting too. Let's take the Exposure tool and let's set something like:
+0,34 | -0,0724 | 1,40
5. We brang all of our beloved shadows back, isn't it great? And that's exactly what I was talking about! Creating some vivid colors without deleting our shadows. It's time to play with some tones. What about some blue? Or, better: what about some blue and violet? Didn't we notice that these tones looks great together? It's time for some gradients.
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp) > set to Saturation > 100% (opacity)
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp) > set to Linear light > 100% (opacity)
The second gradient presents a very dark yellow, it's an almost green: it gives to the image a warm tone.
6. The last step, guys: you see, dark images are pretty easy. This just took us less time than ever! Let's take our Selective Coloring tool and let's darken the white tones a little, since they might be too lightened. You won't be able to see the difference, anyway, since this is just a soft adjustment.
whites: +100 | 0 | +36 | 0
if your image still looks too bright, you can try to repeat this step and darken the white tones again.
All of the colorings in the world always hide a double face inside of them: when I finished this one, for example, I thought that a final adjustment could give to the image a final and stunning touch, so I kept on working, but I felt like the second outcome didn't match with the first coloring, so I decided to break the .psd up. The first group contains the previous coloring, and the second group contains a second version of the first coloring: I just added a Curves layer.
blue: (output: 125; input: 255)
Instead of a cold mixage of colors, such as this:
we're going to have a completely different coloring, mixed up with some warm yellow/orange/brown tones:
------------------------------------------
I think that both colorings are awesome ^^
PSD | credits are always required, children e_e