Tutorial #2
A simple, simple tutorial. :)
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01.
I've tried to icon this cap in the past and always scrapped it. Then I did the Hannibal battle so I HAD to do something with this cap. It's a striking cap, really, and a good moment but I just have had issues cropping and coloring it. Sometimes a crop comes easily, other times it takes some trial and error. For this crop, I ended up rotating the angle of the crop box slightly.
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02.
Then I brighten the cap using a curves adjustment layer (layer > new adjustment layer > curves). I start with pulling the curve up and to the left as needed then I move the dot in the bottom left corner up along the edge. So, from left to right, there are dots at Output: 20, Input: 0 and another at Output: 157, Input: 120. I didn't move the one in the top right. It looks like this.
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03.
I make a stamped layer (shift + ctrl + alt + e) and set it to Screen at 75%.
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04.
I make another stamped layer and run it through Gaussian Blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) and set that to Soft Light. I'm not sure what the Radius was set to but it looks like this.
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05.
I liked the color that that step gave to her hair but didn't like the orange-y tone to her skin. I make a vibrance adjustment layer and set the vibrance to -41 and kept the saturation at 0. Because I wanted to keep the color in the hair, her lips and her eye, I colored over the mask. It's a shade of grey on the mask but I don't remember if that was intentional or if it was just what happened to be selected. The darker the color, the more intense the difference will be. Here is what that looks like on the layer.
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06.
Finally, some sharpening is needed. I make a stamped layer again and use High Pass Sharpen (Filter > Other > High Pass.) I usually keep the radius between 1 and 2. It'll look something like this then you set that layer to Soft Light. You can also set to Soft Light first then run the filter and adjust it however you need to.
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Requested by vapor.
Request a tutorial/guide/etc. here.
01.
I've tried to icon this cap in the past and always scrapped it. Then I did the Hannibal battle so I HAD to do something with this cap. It's a striking cap, really, and a good moment but I just have had issues cropping and coloring it. Sometimes a crop comes easily, other times it takes some trial and error. For this crop, I ended up rotating the angle of the crop box slightly.
➾
02.
Then I brighten the cap using a curves adjustment layer (layer > new adjustment layer > curves). I start with pulling the curve up and to the left as needed then I move the dot in the bottom left corner up along the edge. So, from left to right, there are dots at Output: 20, Input: 0 and another at Output: 157, Input: 120. I didn't move the one in the top right. It looks like this.
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03.
I make a stamped layer (shift + ctrl + alt + e) and set it to Screen at 75%.
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04.
I make another stamped layer and run it through Gaussian Blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) and set that to Soft Light. I'm not sure what the Radius was set to but it looks like this.
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05.
I liked the color that that step gave to her hair but didn't like the orange-y tone to her skin. I make a vibrance adjustment layer and set the vibrance to -41 and kept the saturation at 0. Because I wanted to keep the color in the hair, her lips and her eye, I colored over the mask. It's a shade of grey on the mask but I don't remember if that was intentional or if it was just what happened to be selected. The darker the color, the more intense the difference will be. Here is what that looks like on the layer.
➾
06.
Finally, some sharpening is needed. I make a stamped layer again and use High Pass Sharpen (Filter > Other > High Pass.) I usually keep the radius between 1 and 2. It'll look something like this then you set that layer to Soft Light. You can also set to Soft Light first then run the filter and adjust it however you need to.
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