• Duplicate your layer -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer…

• Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Photo Filter - once you’re there click on this for my settings and change your settings to match mine. The colour in the box that I used was 663708 - You can have any colour but it’s important to keep it a dark orange/brown colour.

• Now duplicate your photo filter layer -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer…

• You should now have two image layers and two
  Photo Filter layers. Click on your first (e.g. bottom)
  Photo Filter layer and then go -> Layer -> Merge Down - Once that’s done you should now have two image layers and one
  Photo Filter layer! Set your second image layer to Overlay.

• I hope the above makes sense… it’s a bit tricky to explain. Moving on, go to your remaining
  Photo Filter layer and change the Opacity to 70%

• Now press M on your keyboard and you should be using the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Once you have that at the top of Photoshop you’ll see a toolbar and there you will find a little box that says ‘Feather’ next to it. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, Take a look here. - Now inside that little box I want you to replace 0 with 5 (ignore the fact that mine has 55 in it, old screen shot).

• Go to your image and create a rectangle in the middle of your image. Take a look at what I did.

• Once you’ve selected your shape go -> Select -> Inverse - Once that’s done you’ll notice a change to your image.

• Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… on this image I picked black, but you can do anything really, I feel black works best here.
  Select your colour and click OK!

• Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Old Worn Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.

• Firstly you need to make sure you have your layers palette open. To do that go -> Window -> Layers - “Layers” should be ticked - Once you have done that, locate your layers… look at mine!

• Now go to your layers palette If you look at it closely you’ll see three small tabs; Layers, Channels, Paths - Select Channels you’ll see four channel layers, just like mine here - now you can select one of the layers; I selected red but this was just because it suited the image best.

• Once you select red you’ll notice a change in your image… so then go to your image and use these shortcuts: CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + A (selects the image) - CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + C (copies the image) - then click the RGB layer, and then click the layers tab (before you selected “channels”)…

• When you see your normal layers and your image in colour, use this shortcut CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + V (this then pastes the red, grayscale layer onto your colour one).

• Now, still in your layers palette, change the mode to screen

• Now merge your layers together. Layer -> Flatten Image.

• You should now only have one layer - now duplicate it. I always use the shortcut: CTRL (wind) / Command (mac) + J

• Now go -> Filter -> Other -> High Pass - High pass is basically a sharpening tool - I changed my Radius to 4.0 but you can do more or less. Your image should now look very odd… now go to your layer and set it to Softlight - with high pass I sometimes set the layer to Overlay, Screen, Hard light or like I have done this time, Soft light… whatever works for you.

• Aaandddd you’re done. It’s simple but useful, I find. I hope this High Pass Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.

• Now duplicate your layer. To do this, I use a shortcut: CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J

• Now desaturate the image. I use the shortcut: Shift + CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + U

• Then go -> Image -> Adjustments -> Exposure… and once the little box appears change your settings to match my own here.

• Once you’ve applied the settings press OK, then go to your layer palette, locate the layer mode and set it to Overlay. Once that’s done you need to
  duplicate your top layer (The overlay one). Leaving you with three layers

• Then go to your middle layer (E.g. Select your middle layer.) Then go Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur and set your settings to 3.0

• Now go back to your top layer and change it from Overlay to Soft light & change the
  opacity to 50%

• Simple enough. That’s the main steps, anything after this will turn your image into the “Additional Steps” image that you can see above… so either save your image or carry on

Dreamy Selective Colouring Effect Additional Steps:

• Now press M on your keyboard and you should be using the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Once you have that at the top of Photoshop you’ll see a toolbar and there you will find a little
  box that says ‘Feather’ next to it. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, Take a look here. - Now inside that little
  box I want you to replace 0 with 30 (ignore the fact that mine has 55 in it).

• Go to your image and create a rectangle in the middle of your image. Take a look at what I did.

• Once you’ve selected your shape go to Select -> Inverse. Once that’s done you’ll notice a change to your image. Take a look at what I did.

• Now go Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… on this image I picked black, but you can do anything really, I feel black works best here.
  Once you have your first black layer,
  duplicate it! And then change the top black layer to Overlay… which will leave you with two black layers.

• You need to merge all of your layers now. Layers -> Flatten Image.
  Once that’s done,
  duplicate your layer and then go Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate.

• This is the more tricky part… select your eraser tool, select a soft round default brush, the size should be 30/40 and
  opacity at 100%
  

• Once you have your brush ready you need to go to your top layer and begin to ‘remove the grey’, by that I mean… just erase whatever you want and you’ll see that it turns to colour…
  While doing this, if you’re not used to erasing and doing things like this then I suggest you zoom in when it gets more tricky. I left the background black but I coloured her dress and the balloons.
  Because I felt her skin was too pale I made my brush a bit smaller 10/20 and changed the opacity to 50% - then I very carefully and slowly went over her arms and face… I also slightly skimmed the eraser over her hair but I lowered the
  opacity again… have a play it’s more personal taste.

• Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Dreamy Selective Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.

• Now duplicate your layer. To do this, I use a shortcut: CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J

• Then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Channel Mixer - in the tab at the very top, make sure you’ve selected “Red” and the change your settings to these:
  Red: +100
  Green: +172
  Blue: -66
  Constant: -70

• Now select your middle layer (not the original and not the channel mixer layer - the other one)… then go to your layers pallet - if you look at it closely you’ll see three small tabs; Layers, Channels, Paths - Select Channels you’ll see four channel layers, just like mine here - now you can select one of the layers; I selected green but this was just because it suited the image best.

• Once you select blue you’ll notice a change in your image… so then go to your image and use these shortcuts: CTRL/Command + A (selects the image) - CTRL/Command + C (copies the image) - then click the RGB layer, and then click the layers tab (before you selected “channels”)…

• When you see your normal layers and your image in colour, use this shortcut CTRL/Command + V (this then pastes the blue, grayscale layer onto your colour one). You will now have three layers - 2 coloured ones and a grayscale one (your new one).

• After all that, select your grayscale layer, then locate the mode and change it to Color Burn

• You’ll see that the road sign isn’t readable - so I just got an eraser tool (E on your keyboard) and erased a bit of it.

• Aaandddd you’re done. When you try this out on other images, I would suggest fiddling with the Channel Mixer - you may want to alter the sliders a bit to suit your image more as these settings are rather unique. I hope this Channel Mixer Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.

• Now duplicate your layer. To do this, I use a shortcut: CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J

• Now go -> Layer -> Layer Mask -> Reveal All - your layers should now look like this! Your newly duplicated layer should have a small thumbnail of your image, and another one to the right, it should be white.
  

• Now on this image I used Motion Blur but in the future you can play with this effect and use any form of blur… So, now go -> Filter -> Blur -> Motion Blur - Once the little box has appeared change the angle to 0 and I changed the distance to 45

• Once you’ve got your blur, go to your layers palette and look at your duplicated layer and also the white layer mask. With your mouse, select the mask.

• Now go to your brush tool, make sure the colour you’re currently using is black. Also make sure that you also have your opacity at 100% and select a round default brush, I decided on the size 35.

• Now start to erase the blurriness that you can see on the girl - your aim is to erase all the burry effect from the girl but also leaving the background blurred. To begin with, you may find it hard, but it gets easier. The best thing to do is go slow and possibly zoom in so you can see the lines better. To zoom in, just press Z on your keyboard, then click your image - it’ll zoom in. Go back to your brush tool (press B) and continue to erase.

• You can have a look at my layer and image half way through here. If you look at my layers and then at the mask (white
  box) you should be able to see the black bits… that’s what I’m doing while erasing the girl.

• Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Selective Blurring in Photoshop Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.

• 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.

• Start off by going into the toolbar at the top in Photoshop and select LAYER, then select NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER, then select 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.

• Download this file and save it to your desktop. Go back into Photoshop and go upto the toolbar again and select LAYER, then select NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER, then select SELECTIVE COLOR… Like on the last step, a little box might pop up asking you to name the layer, just click OK (note that the box might not pop up for everyone - if it doesn’t, just carry on with the steps). Click LOAD…. and find the file you just downloaded, which will probably be called RoadSC.asv, if you haven’t renamed it. Once you’ve found it, select it and click LOAD. Once that’s done, click OK. Once you’ve clicked OK, you should now notice a huge difference in the colouring of your photograph.

• Depending on what you want your photograph to end up like, you can lower the opacity of the selective color layer, if you like it as it is you can leave it at 100%, or you can change it to 70-80%, depending on what you’d like best. I’ll leave you to fiddle with that. You’re pretty much done, if you end up trying this effect on other photographs, bare in mind that it won’t look great on all of them, you’ll probably have to try a few photos until you find a picture that works with the effect. This effect does work well with black and white images.

• I hope this has helped you. If you have any questions regarding this don’t hesitate to leave a comment below regarding this Red Effect Tutorial, I’ll happily reply.

• To start, I suggest opening Adobe Photoshop and an image you want to use in this tutorial.

• Firstly go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layers -> Photo Filter - it’s towards the bottom. When the little box appears, click the drop down menu and select “Warming Filter (81), then change the density to 100% - make sure “Preserve Luminosity” is selected and press OK.

• Now you need to do the same as above. So, go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layers -> Photo Filter - when the little box appears, click the drop down menu and instead of selecting the Warming Filter (81), select Warming Filter (LBA) - then change the density to 100% and make sure “Preserve Luminosity” is selected and then press OK.

• Now go to your layers pallet - select the first Photo Filter layer, then change the drop down menu which says “Normal” to “Screen”.

• Now select your second Photo Filter layer, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Soft Light”

• Now for the more tricky one. Go -> Layer -> Adjustment Layers -> Selective Color - a box will appear… at the very bottom you’ll see “Method”, make sure that the “Relative” option is selected and not “Absolute” - and then change the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black settings to these: Cyan: -100 - Magenta: +17 - Yellow: +17 - Black: -25 - now go to the top, you’ll see “Colors:” and a small drop down menu - it’ll be displaying “Reds” - change it to “Yellows” and now change the settings again. Cyan: +75 - Magenta: +45 - Yellow: -39 - Black: +13 now select “Greens” (the drop down menu)… change Cyan: +100 and leave everything else at 0 - now change the drop down to “Neutrals”, change the settings: Cyan: +27 - Magenta: +15 - Yellow: +14 - Black: -3

• Phew! That was a long step. Okay, next one… go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layers -> Levels - a box will appear, change the input levels to 38 - 1.61 - 255 - now press OK

• Next go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color - when the first small box appears change the mode to “Difference” and the opacity to 50% and then press OK - another box will appear - enter this hex code: 13454b - then go to your layers pallet and find the “fill” option, change that to 53%

• Again go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color - when the first small box appears change the mode to “Difference” and then press OK - another box will appear - enter this hex code: 5b2a19 - then go to your layers pallet and find the “fill” option, change that to 38%

• Aaannddd you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, but if you have any questions regarding this Photo Filter Effect Tutorial then please do leave a comment below.

• Before we start I suggest you download the Swan image - just right click on the before image and save it to your desktop. If you use this image for anything other than testing out this tutorial remember it’s copyrighted to Olivia Bell (me) @ LTY Tutorials - feel free to use it for anything, but if you distribute it I require a link on your website back to LTY Tutorials (feel free to ask more questions below regarding this ).

• As we’re downloading stuff, might as well download this Selective Color file - you’ll be using it later on.

• Right, first step: you need to duplicate your layer. To do this go -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer… once you’ve done that a little box will pop up, just press OK. Once you’ve done that you should notice two layers in your layers pallet. If you can’t find your layers pallet press the F7 button on your keyboard.

• Now go -> Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Ink Outlines… a big box will pop up with your image on the left and settings on the right hand side. There are three settings; Stroke Length, Dark Intensity, Light Intensity - Change the settings to this: Stroke Length = 1 - Dark Intensity = 0 - Light Intensity = 50 - and then press OK.

• Now you’ll see quite a change in your image… in this case, it’s a bit too dramatic, so I’m going to fade the Ink Outlines. To do this, press these keys on your keyboards Shift + CTRL/Command + F - if a box doesn’t appear… eg if it doesn’t work then go -> Edit -> Fade… (it’s the 2nd or 3rd option).

• A little box should now have appeared, whether you used the keyboard shortcut or the normal, longer route. Change the Opacity to 35% (make sure the "Preview", is ticked so you can see what this looks like). In this case I didn’t change the mode … but in future you can always play with this.

• Now… remember that selective color file you downloaded earlier on? We’re going to use it ….so, now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color - a small box will appear, on the right hand side you should find a few buttons to click… look for "load" - another box will appear, now search for the file you downloaded… once you’ve found it, select it, press OK and OK again.

• Now you need to locate your layers pallet which I talked about a little earlier. You’ll see that you now have three layers. Take a look at mine. Your layers pallet should look just like mine.

• Now I duplicated my selective color layer - the easiest way of duplicating any layer is using the brilliant shortcut: CTRL/Command + J - hopefully you’ve just duplicated your selective color layer and should now have four layers. I now changed the layer type from "Normal", to "Soft light"… when you look at your layers pallet you can see a drop down menu which displays "Normal", you can now change that to "Soft light" - you’ve just changed your layer mode.

• This step can be skipped! Just because I’m picky, I felt the swan had been too overexposed (eg. it’s unnaturally white)… so, I selected the eraser tool (press E for it) - then selected a small round brush (30/40/50 is a good size), and just erase a little on the Swan, I just did the next and body - you may notice a very, very slight difference - but enough for me to do it.

• Now I wanted to add a slightly scratchy look, so I used one of my own textures from LTY Designs - if you want the exact texture, use this texture - otherwise you can download all sorts of scratchy textures here. So, download a texture you want to use and then open it in Photoshop - then use the following shortcut: CTRL/Command + A (this will select the texture), then CTRL/Command + C (this will copy the texture)… then go to your Swan image and go CTRL/Command +V (this will paste the texture onto your image)…….. then go to your layers pallet, look for the layer mode (remember, the drop down menu?)… change it to "Screen".

• Now a bit of colouring…. I just felt it was just a little bland, so I went and added a few colour layers.

• So, go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… this box will appear - you’ve got several options there, all you need to do is change Mode from Normal to Color Burn and press OK. Another box will appear, in the little field at the bottom it will have 6 characters, something like FFFFFF or 000000… or even something completely random. Replace them with FFC7E3 then press OK!

• Now we’re going to do the same… Go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… that little box will appear, change the Mode to Color Burn again, then press OK and then change the 6 characters to C7FFF6 (different to last time)… and press OK.

• We need to do the same again… So, go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… change the Mode , but this time change it to Soft Light and press OK - then change those 6 characters to FFCEC7 then press OK!

• *cough* Last time… promise! Go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… change the Mode to Hardlight and instead of pressing OK… change the Opacity to 31% and then press OK. When the color box appears, change the 6 characters to FFD4EB and press OK

• Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this painting effect tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and I’ll do my best to help you further.

Option 1 - How To:

• Start with a coloured image. You can use the one I have used, just right click on it and save it to your desktop then open it in Photoshop and follow the next few steps.

• Go to your layers pallet - if you look at it closely you’ll see three small tabs; Layers, Channels, Paths - Select Channels you’ll see four channel layers, just like mine here - now you can select one of the layers; I selected blue but this was just because it suited the image best, it changes with whatever image you use.

• Once you select blue, green or red you’ll notice a change in your image… so, select the best layer (anything but RGB) and then go to your image and use these shortcuts: CTRL/Command + A (selects the image) - CTRL/Command + C (copies the image) - then click the RGB layer, and then click the layers tab (before you selected “channels”)…

• When you see your normal layers and your image in colour, use this shortcut CTRL/Command + V (this then pastes the blue, grayscale layer onto your colour one). You will now have two layers - a coloured one (the original) and a grayscale one (your new one).

• Merge the layers (CTRL/Command + E) and you’re done.

Option 2 - How To

• This option is very easy… the shortest way is to use this shortcut: Shift + CTRL/Command + U - you’ll see that it automatically grayscales the image. If this shortcut doesn’t work, the longer route is: -> Image -> Adjustments -> Desaturate - and that’s it.

Option 3 - How To

• This other option is also simple, just not as simple as option two.

• Take your coloured image, then go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the little box appears, just press OK and another one will pop up, the one with lots of colours. Select plain, boring black and then press OK.

• Your image will now be filled with black - to change that, go to your layers pallet locate the Mode (this is the drop down menu, which says “Normal”), alter it to “Color”, make sure you do not select “Color Burn”. “Color” is right at the bottom.

• You’ll now have exactly what I displayed above…

• Aaandddd that’s it. Three rather simple ways to grayscale any coloured image. If you have any questions regarding this Photoshop Grayscale Tutorial then just drop me a line in the below comment box. I’ll happily reply.