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.
Feel free to request something similar to this Red Effect Tutorial.
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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.
Photo Filter Effect
June 29, 2008
This Photo Filter 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 - depending on the image it can do all sorts of things. When I created this effect I tried it on quite a few images… you can take a look at a few examples: example 1: before & after - example 2: before & after
Once you’ve read this through you can easily edit the settings I use - it’s nothing too complex, but this effect really does enhance and alter your images dramatically.
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Photo Filter Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- 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.
Bright and Colorful Effect
June 29, 2008
This Bright and Colorful Effect 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.
Feel free to request something similar to this Bright and Colorful Effect Tutorial.
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Bright and Colorful Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- 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.
- Now you need to repeat the step above, only you’ll be downloading a different file, so download this file. Then go into photoshop, select LAYER, then select NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER, then select SELECTIVE COLOR… load the file you just downloaded, and click OK. You should notice a difference in your image once again.
- Now fine the toolbar and select LAYER then select NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER then select COLOR BALANCE, then make sure your settings look exactly like mine, here. And you’re done. Don’t forget you can always alter these effects, add your own and even get rid of some of the steps, to change the effect to your liking, or just to adjust it for different images.
- Aaandddd you’re done. I hope this Bright and Colorful Effect Tutorial was helpful - however if you have any questions regarding this tutorial then please leave a comment below and I’ll happily reply.
Painting Effect Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Painting Effect Tutorial will explain how to add a subtle painting effect.
This effect is brilliant when you have a dull image which you want to add a slightly realistic paint look to it. It still looks like a graphic, but it has a subtle edge, something more interesting… this doesn’t always work for every image, but when it does the outcome is really special.
I created this effect to enhance this photograph of the Swan. It was lovely, but a little bland… afterwards I turned it into a wallpaper, which you can download at LTY Designs’ Wallpapers page >>>
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Painting Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- 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
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- 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. 
Photoshop Clone Tool
June 29, 2008
This Photoshop Clone Tool will explain how to use the clone tool to remove anything from your image.
Not always, but often enough I find I want to remove objects/things in an image - in this case I wanted to remove the shadow underneath the guy on the skateboard - and while I was playing with the clone tool I also decided to change the colour of his trousers! The clone tool is an excellent tool and really easy to use once you know how.
The clone tool can be used in several ways, to clone - make a double of an object, or to remove something by cloning something less obvious… it’s easy to get to grips with which is why I love it so much.
Feel free to request something similar to this tutorial on the Photoshop Clone Tool.
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Photoshop Clone Tool - The Steps
- First of all, I suggest you download the image I am using - right click on it and save image
- Assuming you’ve got the image open and are ready to go, duplicate your layer. CTRL (win) / Command + J to duplicate.
- Now locate your clone tool - press S on your keyboard, make sure you’re using the clone tool and not the pattern stamp tool. Mine looks like this. Once you’ve got that, just under the File, Edit, Image tool bar you’ll see a brush, change it so that it’s a nice soft round one - I had one which was roughly 45 in size.
- Now, go to your image - in the image above I removed the shadow - it’s pretty easy to do, so that’s our aim. I’ll explain how: what the clone tool does is copy the part of the image you select and patch it over something you don’t want.
- Try this: hold down the ALT button and left click with your mouse on something you want to clone - go to something you want to remove (like the shadow) , let go of ALT and move your mouse over the shadow. Hopefully you’ll start to see the clone tool working by removing the shadow and cloning part of the image you clicked on. If it begins to look funny, select on the image again by pressing ALT + left click of the mouse - release and move your brush over the image. You’ll begin to see when you need to ALT + click on darker parts of the image and then lighter parts. If you struggle with this do it a few times - undo your edits and redo them. It’s easy when you know what you’re doing, a few tries will be all you need.
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That’s the hard bit - it’s easy but putting it into words, reading it & then trying it out is tricky.
- Now selectively change the colour of his jeans. I know you can do this with selective colouring, but I decided to do it differently as layer adjustments/selective colouring don’t always give you the free reign.
- So go -> Select -> Color Range - this box will appear, although the settings won’t be the same as mine - so change everything, but don’t worry that the little image doesn’t look the same. Once you’ve changed the settings so they match mine, move the box so you can see the guys jeans, then left click on the darker part of his jeans. I clicked on his left thigh. If you do it right, the little image in the box should look a lot like mine. Then click OK
- You should now see something similar to this - you can see that the guys jeans have been selected but so has part of the sky. You need to now deselect the sky and select any bits you haven’t got of the guys trousers. To do that select the Elliptical Maquee Tool , then hold down ALT and select parts of the selection you don’t want - if you want to be very picky then you could zoom in to make it easier. Just press Z and click a few times on your image, you’ll be zoomed in. Then go back to removing the selections. As I’m zoomed in, I also decided to be picky and add some more selection to his jeans - instead of holding down ALT, hold down SHIFT and then add more selections to his jeans.
- My selection ended up like this - now duplicate your selection. To do that press CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J - if you go to your layers palette you’ll see that you have your original layer, your duplicated layer and then your newly duplicated one which will look much more different.
- Now go -> Layer -> New Layer Adjustment -> Hue/Saturation - change the saturation to -100 and lightness to +37 - press OK
- Now press CTRL (win) / Command + E and hopefully the hue /saturation layer will merge into the duplicated jeans layer.
- Phew… and there you have it. No more shadow and lighter jeans! If you have any questions regarding this Photoshop Clone Tool Tutorial then just drop me a line in the below comment box. I’ll happily reply.
Motion Effect in Photoshop
June 29, 2008
This Motion Effect in Photoshop Tutorial will explain how to create the below effect.
I rather love this photograph, but I wanted to alter it, to try and make it look like it was taken in the car, a car which was going very fast - so I attempted a motion effect. I also wanted to darken it and deepen the colours, make them brighter. In this tutorial, I hope to explain and show you how you can copy what I’ve attempted to do, not only on the image below but in the future on other images.
This effect works on any type of image, but I find it works best on this type of photograph, one that suits the motion blur. However the deep colours etc can be used on any other image, always very useful.
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Motion Effect in Photoshop - The Steps
- First of all, duplicate your image, I love the shortcut, saves a lot of time. CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J
- Then go to Filter -> Blur -> Radial Blur - now change your settings to mine.
Amount: 15
Blur Method: Zoom
Quality: Good
Press OK when you’re done - then go to your layers palette and change the layer mode from “Normal” to “Overlay”
- Now download this file then go back to Photoshop and go -> New Adjustment Layer -> Hue/Saturation -> Load -> Locate your file -> press OK
- Now go, Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Brightness/Contrast and change your settings to mine which are below.
Brightness: 0
Contrast: +15
- Now download this file - then go back into Photoshop, then go Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Curves -> Load -> Locate your file -> press OK
- Now get your eraser tool, select a soft round brush (100 is good). Select your duplicated layer (it is the second layer - not the original, but the other one) and move your eraser brush slightly over the ‘STOP’ sign so that you can read the sign better.
- Once all the above steps are done I suggest merging your layers by pressing the following keys on your keyboard. CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + E
- Now you need to select the whole image. CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + A
Then go to your tools and find the Rectangular Marquee Tool (or just press M ). Once that’s selected then look at the top and you’ll see a box and before it you’ll see it’s called ‘Feather’ set your feathering to 55 - If you’re confused then look this screen shot.
- Now press ALT on your keyboard and select a sort of rectangle in the middle of your image. It can be big or small, depends how much you want to be dark (around the edges that is). Mine looks like this.
- Now go -> Layer -> New Layer Fill -> Solid Color - when the first box appears, change the layer mode to “Multiply” and adjust the Opacity to 90% - press OK and then select black, press OK again.
- Now duplicate your new black solid layer - CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J
- And that’s it. If you have any questions regarding this Motion Effect in Photoshop Tutorial then just drop me a line in the below comment box. I’ll happily reply.
Bright Color Advanced Effect
June 29, 2008
This Bright Color Advanced 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.
Feel free to request something similar to this Bright Color Advanced Effect Tutorial
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Bright Color Advanced Effect - 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
- First of all, go into Phtoshop and into the toolbar, select LAYER -> NEW FILL LAYER -> SOLID COLOR… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 17% 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 FFFFFF - then press 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 +24 , leave the contrast set to +23 . Click OK.You should notice that your images brightness has now changed slightly.
- 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. Now find your layers palette and set the Selective Color layer to 55%. You may change the opacity if you like, but I’ve left mine at 55%.
- Repeat the last step, only with a different selective colouring file, download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again. Now find your layers palette and set the Selective Color layer to 55%. You may change the opacity if you like, but I’ve left mine at 55%.
- Now 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. Don’t change the Shadows or Highlight settings, the only ones you need to change is the Midtones, change your midtones settings so they look like mine, CLICK HERE . After that, click 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.
- I hope this has helped you. If you have any questions regarding this don’t hesitate to leave a comment below regarding this Bright Color Advanced Effect Tutorial, I’ll happily reply.
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