Red Effect Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Red Effect 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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Red Effect 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 +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.
Dramatic Effect in Photoshop Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Dramatic Effect in Photoshop Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.
This effect creates a rather dramatic effect - depending on the colours of the image and the actual photograph/image it depends what happens. However this effect is brilliant for improving your knowledge of Photoshop and learning new effects to use on all sorts of images.
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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Dramatic Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- Go into Photoshop and go into -> LAYER -> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> COLOR BALANCE.. When the box comes up you’ll notice at the bottom there’s three options - Shadows, Midtones and Highlights. You’ll need to change all three of them, so take a look at the screen shots and make your settings look like mine, Midtone settings here, Shadows settings here, Highlights settings here. Once that’s done, Click OK.
- Now go into the toolbar at the top in Photoshop and select LAYER -> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> 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 +58, leave the contrast set to 0. Click OK.
- Now download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again.
- First of all, go into Phtoshop and into the toolbar, select LAYER -> NEW FILL LAYER -> SOLID COLOR… when the first box appears change the “Normal” drop down menu to “Soft light” - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to F8FED0- then press OK
- Not happy with what your photograph looks like? OK, firstly go into your Layers Palette and on the left side of each layer, you’ll see there should be little eyes. I’ve drawn a red box around the eyes to show you exactly what I mean - you’ll see that on one of the layers there’s no eye beside it, that’s because I’ve simply hidden the single layer to change the effect on my photograph. Click here to see what I mean. now that you understand that, you can hide one or more of the layers and keep playing with it until you like the outcome.
- Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Dramatic 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.
Photoshop Color Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Photoshop Color Tutorial will show you another way of adding a different colour to your image.
In this tutorial I use very little layer adjustment tools and rely on solid colour fills - adjusting them to an image and selecting the right colours or the right image can sometimes be easy and other times hard. In this tutorial I’m simply going to supply you with a bunch of layers that I use a lot. This effect works on many images, although I originally made it to suit the image below I’ve tested it out on a lot of other images.
The beautiful thing about colour layers is that you can just double click on one and move the slider to suit your unique image - they do dramatically change the colour and look of your image very simply.
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Photoshop Color Tutorial - The Steps
- First of all, open a image in Photoshop - I personally would use the image I’ve used above, it will make it easier for you. Just right click on the image and "save image" to your desktop.
- Assuming you have the image you want open in Photoshop, go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 43% 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 e79090 - then press OK
- Again go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 19% 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 ae7d12 - then press OK
- Once again go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 19% 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 8a47fa - then press OK
- Again go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 19% 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 8ffa47 - then press OK
- …again go
-> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 19% and change the "Normal" drop down menu to "Soft Light" - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to cd96b5 - 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 1.00 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.
- 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 19 then the second to 0.78 and then the third to 236 - 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 34 then the second to 0.93 and then the third to 198 - 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 0 then the second to 1.10 and then the third to 219 - 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!
- Go to your layers palette, locate the newly finished levels layer, change the mode from "Normal" to "Overlay" and then locate the opacity and change that to 50%
- This step is optional as it may be nicer on some images and then the opposite on others.
- Go to your original layer in your layers palette (to locate it press F7 on your keyboard) - select the original layer and then use this short cut: CTRL (win)/Command (mac) + J
- Now click and drag the newly duplicated layer to the top of all your layers - then just above it, change the "mode" to Soft Light - then change the Opacity to 50% - if you’re not comfortable with your layers palette then please read this layers palette tutorial ->>>
- Phew. That’s it - if you have any questions regarding this Photoshop Color Tutorial then just drop me a line in the below comment box. I’ll happily reply.
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