Brighter Colours in Photoshop

June 29, 2008 · Print This Article

This Brighter Colours in Photoshop Tutorial will show you another way of adding a different colour to your image.

In this tutorial I use a lot of layer adjustment tools - they’re great when you want to alter and tweak your images colous, lightening, colouring, all sorts of things - hopefully by following this you’ll become more comfortable with the layer adjustment tools and end up tweaking my settings to suit your own images.

The only thing with layer adjustment tools is that some settings work on images and then on others they need altering - it’s very annoying at times and yet wonderful when you get it right as the image turns out even more beautiful!

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After

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Brighter Colours in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps

First of all, open a image in Photoshop - then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Channel Mixer - change your settings to match my own and then press OK

Now download this curves file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Curves -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press OK -> OK again

Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Color Balance - change your settings so that they match my own.

Again go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Color Balance - change your settings so that they match my own.

Now go -> 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 ec43be - then press OK

Again go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 26% 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 8292c6 - then press OK

Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Levels - when the box appears, at the top you’ll see input levels - change the first to 0 then the second to 0.84 and then the third to 246 - then just below the black and white graph you should see Output levels make sure the first is set to 0 and the second to 255 - don’t close the box yet.

At the very top of the box you’ll see a drop down menu displaying "RGB", change it to "Red", and then at the top you’ll see input levels - change the first to 0 then the second to 0.74 and then the third to 255 - then just below the black and white graph you should see Output levels make sure the first is set to 0 and the second to 255 - don’t close the box yet.

Now, change the drop down menu from "Red" to "Green", and then at the top you’ll see input levels - change the first to 0 then the second to 1.44 and then the third to 255 - then just below the black and white graph you should see Output levels make sure the first is set to 0 and the second to 255 - don’t close the box yet.

This time change the drop down menu from "Green" to "Blue", and then at the top you’ll see input levels - change the first to 69 then the second to 2.50 and then the third to 252 - then just below the black and white graph you should see Output levels make sure the first is set to 0 and the second to 255 - NOW CLOSE THE BOX!

Now download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press OK -> OK again

Phew. That’s it - the last file, the selective colour may make a diference to your image and it may not… if it doesn’t come out quite how you want it to, just play with the settings, you’ll be amazed what happens! If you have any questions regarding this Brighter Colours in Photoshop Tutorial then just drop me a line in the below comment box. I’ll happily reply.