Color Enhancement Tutorial

June 29, 2008 · Print This Article

This Color Enhancement 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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Enhanced Effect Tutorial - The Steps

To start, duplicate your layer. Use the handy shortcut: CTRL/Command + J - then go to your layers pallet and change the drop down menu to "Hard Light".

Make a new fill layer. Go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color. When the little box appears, change that to "Soft Light" and press OK - then enter this hex code: 74B1AF

Now download this gradient , then go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Gradient, when the little box appears click the gradient - then another box will appear - look for the ‘Load’ button… find the newly downloaded gradient, load it then press OK.

Now go to your layers pallet, change the "Normal" drop down menu to "Lighten".

Make another new colour layer: -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color - when the little box appears change the "Normal" to "Color Burn" and change the opacity to 18% - then press OK, another box will appear, add this hex code: f2f175

Now I sharpened the image: -> Filter -> Sharpen -> Sharpen

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