Tutorial 03 :: General Selective Coloring Tutorial featuring Luna Lovegood of Harry Potter

[la_xhal]

Selective coloring- a wonderful tool on Photoshop which lets you create beautifully vibrant images- if you use it correctly. Unfortunately, it may seem like a complicated tool at first- there are many numbers and many choices to make. In an effort to simplify this, I've made a general guide to selective coloring. It is image-based, as I find that

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[triedtoholdonto]

You have fans :)

[la_xhal]

It's so cool ♥

[triedtoholdonto]

OMG ICON ♥

[la_xhal]

Axel = Gangsta love ♥

[faith_41]

can you do selective coloring in PS7? I dunno how or where to go...

[la_xhal]

I think so, but I'm not sure. I think you go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Selective Coloring, if I'm not mistaken.

[radiophonic]

This site also offers a Selective Coloring plugin for Elements users, but I have no idea if it works or not. Just sharing the wealth. ;)

[la_xhal]

Ah, thank you! I'll add that link to the post. (I actually think I d/led an SC plugin from that site too, now that I think on it)

[yunaura]

Thank you so much for this! I've been seeing so many "How-to's with selective coloring for this icon" tutorials lately, but I didn't really want to follow them as of yet because I diun't understand selective coloring. ^^;

Thank you for doing a general lesson on it! :D

[la_xhal]

I'm glad you like it ^^ I've found that while 'How-to's with selective coloring' are good and fine, they can be difficult to work with if you don't know how SC works, since you'd probably have to tweak the settings for your images. Anyways, I'm hoping my tutorial will help people get it better ^^

[silverlining_xx]

Ooooh very helpful!

[la_xhal]

That's very good to hear ^^