Tutorial time! #4 - Sawyer
Hey, guys and girls! First post of the year and I hope you had an amazing time wherever you are. Now let's get down to business!
Today we're gonna work with the beautiful tools called selective color and color balance.
I know some of us avoid that like the plague (I was one of them), but since I've been playing with them, I can't get enough. So, sorry, but this isn't translatable.
1- First we're gonna get our base and my choice was this capture of LOST's Mr. Delicious, Sawyer or James Ford, as you prefer, credit to http://www.lost-media.com . Prepare it as you like it, cropping, sharpening.
2- Now to the color balance. Click Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Color Balance. Put the following settings or play with it, it's your choice. But the catch here is make the base a little less yellow. Don't forget to keep Preserve Luminosity checked.
Midtones: -35/-33/42
Shadows: -40/43/57
Highlights: 30/26/12
3- Don't mind you're getting something ugly, we'll fix it soon, I promise. Onto the selective coloring, Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Seletive Color. Put these settings:
RED: -100/0/+100/0
YELLOWS: 100/0/-55/0
NEUTRALS: +30/0/20/0
4- Let's put another selective color layer now, Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Seletive Color.
REDS: -100/0/+100/0
YELLOWS: -100/0/-100/0
MAGENTAS: 0/+28/+42/+34
NEUTRALS: -33/+8/+6/-24
5- Now we'll increase the saturation of our pic, Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Hue/Saturation. On Master, increase only the Saturation to +15.
6- Duplicate the Hue/Saturation layer:
7- Now your picture must be looking kinda ugly, very dark and too saturated, right? We'll fix this by going back to our base and duplicating it. We don't need to send it to top yet, just set it to Screen and see your result.
8- I still thought in this particular case, the pic needed to be brighter, so I duplicated my base again and put it on top of all layers, setting it to Screen too.
Now that's what I call good coloring! I just finished it by adding some brushes, sorry I don't know who made it, but it's surely credited on the comm profile, and here's your final product!
Notice that this may not work with every pic you try, you must play with the screen layers, maybe add some more layers to achieve the coloring you want, or perhaps change them into Soft Light and not Screen. Be creative and I'm sure you'll come with great results!
These are other examples using the same techinique; I just added more screen/soft light layers.
So, you know the deal right?
Today we're gonna work with the beautiful tools called selective color and color balance.
I know some of us avoid that like the plague (I was one of them), but since I've been playing with them, I can't get enough. So, sorry, but this isn't translatable.
1- First we're gonna get our base and my choice was this capture of LOST's Mr. Delicious, Sawyer or James Ford, as you prefer, credit to http://www.lost-media.com . Prepare it as you like it, cropping, sharpening.
2- Now to the color balance. Click Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Color Balance. Put the following settings or play with it, it's your choice. But the catch here is make the base a little less yellow. Don't forget to keep Preserve Luminosity checked.
Midtones: -35/-33/42
Shadows: -40/43/57
Highlights: 30/26/12
3- Don't mind you're getting something ugly, we'll fix it soon, I promise. Onto the selective coloring, Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Seletive Color. Put these settings:
RED: -100/0/+100/0
YELLOWS: 100/0/-55/0
NEUTRALS: +30/0/20/0
4- Let's put another selective color layer now, Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Seletive Color.
REDS: -100/0/+100/0
YELLOWS: -100/0/-100/0
MAGENTAS: 0/+28/+42/+34
NEUTRALS: -33/+8/+6/-24
5- Now we'll increase the saturation of our pic, Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Hue/Saturation. On Master, increase only the Saturation to +15.
6- Duplicate the Hue/Saturation layer:
7- Now your picture must be looking kinda ugly, very dark and too saturated, right? We'll fix this by going back to our base and duplicating it. We don't need to send it to top yet, just set it to Screen and see your result.
8- I still thought in this particular case, the pic needed to be brighter, so I duplicated my base again and put it on top of all layers, setting it to Screen too.
Now that's what I call good coloring! I just finished it by adding some brushes, sorry I don't know who made it, but it's surely credited on the comm profile, and here's your final product!
Notice that this may not work with every pic you try, you must play with the screen layers, maybe add some more layers to achieve the coloring you want, or perhaps change them into Soft Light and not Screen. Be creative and I'm sure you'll come with great results!
These are other examples using the same techinique; I just added more screen/soft light layers.
So, you know the deal right?
- comments are love and so much appreciated!
- if you try them, don't be shy to show me your results!
- credit icon_collide if taking anything
- no editing, no claiming as your own and stuff
- have a great time and until next time!