Enhanced Color Tutorial

June 29, 2008 · Print This Article

This Enhanced Color Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.

This color effect helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and this exact effect is extremely useful when you have boring 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 things in Photoshop.

This tutorial was added early in 2008

Feel free to request something similar to this enhanced color tutorial.

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Enhanced Color Tutorial - 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.

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 +48, leave the contrast set to 0. Click OK.You should notice that your images brightness has now changed slightly.

Now go into Photoshop and go upto the toolbar again and select LAYER, then select NEW FILL LAYER, then select SOLID 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)… fill the color with 5E88BC. Look at mine! Now once that’s done, go to your layers pallet and select the TOP layer and then find the drop down menu which displays “Normal”. Change ‘normal’ to ‘lighten’.

Next you need to download a texture, so download this. Then open that up in Photoshop, copy it by using the following shortcut CTRL/Command + C then click on the image you’ve been adding effects to and paste it CTRL/Command + V. (using your keys on your keyboard again) Then find your layers pallet and select the TOP layer and then find the drop down menu which displays “Normal”. Change ‘normal’ to ‘overlay’.

This step is very similar to the one above - download this. Then open that up in Photoshop, copy it by using the following shortcut CTRL/Command + C then click on the image you’ve been adding effects to and paste it CTRL/Command + V. (using your keys on your keyboard again) Then find your layers pallet and select the TOP layer and then find the drop down menu which displays “Normal”. Change ‘normal’ to ‘lighten’.

Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this Enhanced Color Tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.

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