tutorial 3; rachel bilson

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tutorial requested by _toxication

this to that
made in paint shop pro x



NOTE: I'm Dutch, so I had to translate the whole program. If there's a mistake or you're stuck somewhere, don't hesitate to let me know =)

I started with this picture from celeb_photobook, and cropped it to a 304x404 base.



Go to Layers > New Adjusment Layer > Levels
keep the channel on RGB
input levels: 0, 1.72, 255
leave the output the way it is



Go to Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation
Upper the saturation at +52



New layer, filled with #003663 and set to exclusion 50%



Another layer, filled with #85dfe2 and set to soft light 100%



Merge all. Go to Layers > Duplicate and set to Burn 100%



Duplicate that and set to Softlight 100%



Go to Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Curves
RGB Settings
Red Settings
Green Settings
Blue Settings



& that's all :)
if you want to see more banners made with this technique, see this post
show me what result you got!