Colors abound

[onyx_capricorn]

I've been trying to make the colors on my screencaps 'pop' like the ones in the examples, tried selective coloring and color balance to enhance them but no matter how I try they don't seem as 'lively' and just colorful enough. Is this effect achieved by using textures or maybe the burn tool? Any tips or help is appreciated

Comments

[naginis]

What program do you use?

[moveslikekame]

To achieve some of the images you provided it looks like a new layer of color is added over the image then tweak the blending.
I do the same thing most of the time :)

[onyx_capricorn]

Thank you, I will definitely try this later ;)

[blaanderstark]

Have you tried searching their tumblr tags for PSDs or tutorials? I know with dimkabelikoving (holy crap, that coloring is gorgeous so I had to check) I've found that they have uploaded some psds about their coloring.

Or ask the maker. I'm sure they are nice people who would love to help. My method has always been coloring something with color balance/variations/selective coloring/whatever, copy merging, blurring and adding some saturation to that layer, and then setting it to soft light or screen (depending on the cap) and masking what you don't want with a low opacity brush. Some of those look like they could be light textures too :)

[beetle_breath]

the first one looks like they used a gradient map set to screen, using a color similar to ones used in the image

(that makes sense, right?)

[sodamnreckless]

Well, there's not really an specific way to do this, some of them are made by applying textures and playing around the blending modes but the coloring it self, they don't usually do much, just add some brightness adjustment and a bit of selective color and some vibrance and on the case of all the ones you posted, they used textures to do it