Color Efffects Tutorial

June 30, 2008 · Print This Article

This Color Effects Tutorial will explain how to color your images, add interest and depth and you can learn more.

This type of color effect helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and this exact effect is extremely useful when you have dull images that need sprucing up.

Once you know how to do this you’ll end up tweaking it to suit your image, and discover new tools in photoshop.

This tutorial was added on April 1st 2008

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Color Effects Tutorial - The Steps

First off, duplicate your layer. To do that go, -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer… or you can use the shortcut: CTRL + J

Now go -> Filter -> Other -> High Pass - Now change the radius to 10 - Once you’ve done that, go to your Layers Pallet and change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight”

Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight” and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: 74b1a

Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Gradient - when the little box appears change the opacity to Overlay - then press OK. And this will appear - although it won’t look like that. You now need to change your settings so they match min

Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight” and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: b1748

Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Color Burn”, and on the right you’ll see the Opacity - change that to 18% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: f8f77a

Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Screen”, and on the right you’ll see the Opacity - change that to 40% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: 00ffb4

Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Overlay”, and on the right you’ll see the Opacity - change that to 40% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: ff0080

Aaannnnnddd….. your’e done! I hope this color effects tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Color Efffects Tutorial.