Tutorial #1 & #2.

[silverxdragon]

First tutorials of my new community. Hope you like it. :)

BOTH USE: PHOTOSHOP 7.0

How to go from this:
to this:

Start off with your base, which in this case would be this large, stock image.

Crop, resize, do whatever you like. I resized, but I didn't yet crop it.

1) SELECTIVE COLOR
reds
cyan: -100
magenta: -100
yellow: -100
black: -100
yellows
cyan: -68
magenta: -21
yellow: 100
black: 0
greens
cyan: 100
magenta: 100
yellow: 100
black: 100
cyans
cyan: 100
magenta: -34
yellow: 100
black: 100
blues
cyan: 59
magenta: 45
yellow: 100
black: -28

2) CURVES
rgb
input: 124
output: 168

3) COLOR BALANCE
midtones 21, 12, -15
shadows -45, -21, -45
preserve luminosity ON.

4) HUE/SATURATION
master 0, 24, 0

5) Fill new layer with #340505. Set to EXCLUSION @ 100% opacity.

6) Duplicate base and drag it to the top. Set to SOFT LIGHT @ 100% opacity.

7) Fill new layer with #d7dd33. Set to SOFT LIGHT @ 100% opacity.

8) Fill new layer with #719bfa. Set to SOFT LIGHT @ 100% opacity.

And you're done! Your final result should look something like this.

How to go from this:
to this:
or this:

Start off with your base, obviously, and crop, resize, sharpen, blur, do whatever you need to so you can be satisfied with it. I didn't do anything.

1) Fill new layer with #1a0202. Set to EXCLUSION @ 100% opacity.

2) Fill new layer with #567faa. Set to SOFT LIGHT @ 80% opacity.

3) COLOR BALANCE
midtones 45, -12, 30
shadows 10, 16, 20

4) HUE/SATURATION
master 0, 10, 0

*optional* 5) COOLING FILTER; (since I cannot locate a cooling filter in Photoshop, we'll have to substitute it with whatever we can) fill new layer with #00b5ff. Set to OVERLAY @ 15% opacity.

And you're done! Final result:

(WITH COOLING FILTER LAYER:
)

I would love to see your results. :)

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