Bright Color Advanced Effect
June 29, 2008 · Print This Article
This Bright Color Advanced Effect Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.
This effect creates a very extreme, dramatic effect to any image - which can be useful when you need something dramatic. This effect works on all sorts of images and this tutorial will help to improve your knowledge of Photoshop
Once you know how to do this you’ll end up tweaking it to suit your image, and discover new things in Photoshop.
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Bright Color Advanced Effect - The Steps
- I suggest downloading the same image I’m using, only it’ll be bigger than the previews above. You need to download the image without any effects… so download this
- First of all, go into Phtoshop and into the toolbar, select LAYER -> NEW FILL LAYER -> SOLID COLOR… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 17% and change the “Normal” drop down menu to “Overlay” - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to FFFFFF - then press OK
- Now go into the toolbar at the top in Photoshop and select LAYER -> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST… a little box should come up asking you to name the layer (note this box might not come up & it might take you straight to the brightness/contrast settings), just click OK. Then set the brightness to +24 , leave the contrast set to +23 . Click OK.You should notice that your images brightness has now changed slightly.
- Now download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again. Now find your layers palette and set the Selective Color layer to 55%. You may change the opacity if you like, but I’ve left mine at 55%.
- Repeat the last step, only with a different selective colouring file, download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again. Now find your layers palette and set the Selective Color layer to 55%. You may change the opacity if you like, but I’ve left mine at 55%.
- Now go into -> LAYER -> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> COLOR BALANCE.. When the box comes up you’ll notice at the bottom there’s three options - Shadows, Midtones and Highlights. Don’t change the Shadows or Highlight settings, the only ones you need to change is the Midtones, change your midtones settings so they look like mine, CLICK HERE . After that, click OK.
- Not happy with what your photograph looks like? OK, firstly go into your Layers Palette and on the left side of each layer, you’ll see there should be little eyes. I’ve drawn a red box around the eyes to show you exactly what I mean - you’ll see that on one of the layers there’s no eye beside it, that’s because I’ve simply hidden the single layer to change the effect on my photograph. Click here to see what I mean . now that you understand that, you can hide one or more of the layers and keep playing with it until you like the outcome.
- I hope this has helped you. If you have any questions regarding this don’t hesitate to leave a comment below regarding this Bright Color Advanced Effect Tutorial, I’ll happily reply.
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