Enhanced Effect Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Enhanced 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 Enhanced Effect Tutorial.
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Enhanced Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly, duplicate your first layer twice. The easiest thing to do is use the shortcut: CTRL/Command + J - set the first duplicated layer to Screen and change the opacity to 20% - to do that, go to your layers pallet.
- Go to the second duplicated layer and set it to Overlay and the opacity to 50%
- Now download this file and save it somewhere easy to find.
- Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layers -> Curves -> Load - search for the file you just downloaded, select it and press OK.
- Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layers -> Color Balance - change your settings so that they match my own.
- And now go -> Layers -> New Adjustment Layers -> Selective Color - change your settings so they match mine: click, click & click. Once that’s all done, click OK.
- Aaannddd you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, but if you have any questions regarding this Enhanced Effect Tutorial then please do leave a comment below.
Color Enhancement Tutorial
June 29, 2008
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.
Feel free to request something similar to this Color Enhancement Tutorial.
Before
After
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.
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