lost coloring / tutorial + psd
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
Today we will see how to spread some really vivid colors from the image itself: each picture hide thousand light colors under its dark skin, we just have to know how to discover them.
I used this screenshot from gallery.lost-media.com.
So the tutorial will show you how to transform the screenshot from this:
to this:
1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)
2. Since we're gonna play around with the lights, we have to think about a first medium lightning cure. Take the Levels and set:
10 | 1,28 | 177
3. Now the second shocking lightning remedy. This picture deserves tones of colors, even if we don't know it.
Layers > New adjustment layer > Exposure, and set something like:
+0,02 | -0,0175 | 1,62
I just love that light grainy kind of texture brang by the different exposure in the image! But it's still too pink.
4. To bring skin colors back, let's choose the Selective Colors and set:
red: -43 | -33 | +100 | +100
yellow: -56 | -1 | +100 | +1
green: +11 | -25 | -88 | +27
cyan: +100 | +8 | +100 | +100
blue: +54 | -51 | +100 | +100
magenta: -100 | -100 | +100 | +100
white: -36 | -12 | +1 | +22
neutral: -13 | -7 | -9 | -3
5. Since we still can see too additional pink, we will add more greens, yellow and black to make it disappear. Color balance and:
midtones: -20 | -6 | -16
shadows: -5 | +21 | +11
lights: +18 | +6 | 0
6. The last step for you, guys. Well, you may find this helpful or not, it depends by your base image, but I think that this could help a lot with the lightning, 'cause it gives much more risonance. Black colors may be still too dark.
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)
That's it! 8D
Here is the .psd file, so you can customize your coloring and see how other images works with it. Feel free to play with that.
Don't forget to leave a feedback, if you like it :D
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
Today we will see how to spread some really vivid colors from the image itself: each picture hide thousand light colors under its dark skin, we just have to know how to discover them.
I used this screenshot from gallery.lost-media.com.
So the tutorial will show you how to transform the screenshot from this:
to this:
1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)
2. Since we're gonna play around with the lights, we have to think about a first medium lightning cure. Take the Levels and set:
10 | 1,28 | 177
3. Now the second shocking lightning remedy. This picture deserves tones of colors, even if we don't know it.
Layers > New adjustment layer > Exposure, and set something like:
+0,02 | -0,0175 | 1,62
I just love that light grainy kind of texture brang by the different exposure in the image! But it's still too pink.
4. To bring skin colors back, let's choose the Selective Colors and set:
red: -43 | -33 | +100 | +100
yellow: -56 | -1 | +100 | +1
green: +11 | -25 | -88 | +27
cyan: +100 | +8 | +100 | +100
blue: +54 | -51 | +100 | +100
magenta: -100 | -100 | +100 | +100
white: -36 | -12 | +1 | +22
neutral: -13 | -7 | -9 | -3
5. Since we still can see too additional pink, we will add more greens, yellow and black to make it disappear. Color balance and:
midtones: -20 | -6 | -16
shadows: -5 | +21 | +11
lights: +18 | +6 | 0
6. The last step for you, guys. Well, you may find this helpful or not, it depends by your base image, but I think that this could help a lot with the lightning, 'cause it gives much more risonance. Black colors may be still too dark.
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)
That's it! 8D
Here is the .psd file, so you can customize your coloring and see how other images works with it. Feel free to play with that.
Don't forget to leave a feedback, if you like it :D