Channel Mixer Colouring Effect
August 5, 2008
In this Channel Mixer Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial I hope to explain how you can create the similar effect.
With the below image I wanted to create a dream like, in the past effect, and in this tutorial I will attempt to explain what I did and how you can also do it. This technique is very simple and can be used and manipulated for lots of other things.
Below you’ll see I used a motion blur - although this tutorial is on blurring, you can adapt it to change the background colour but keep the girl the same. All you have to do is think outside of the box and play.
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Channel Mixer Colouring Effect in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial (you can use the image above to try this out), if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- Now duplicate your layer. To do this, I use a shortcut: CTRL (win) / Command (mac) + J
- Then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Channel Mixer - in the tab at the very top, make sure you’ve selected “Red” and the change your settings to these:
Red: +100
Green: +172
Blue: -66
Constant: -70
- Now select your middle layer (not the original and not the channel mixer layer - the other one)… then go to your layers pallet - if you look at it closely you’ll see three small tabs; Layers, Channels, Paths - Select Channels you’ll see four channel layers, just like mine here - now you can select one of the layers; I selected green but this was just because it suited the image best.
- Once you select blue you’ll notice a change in your image… so then go to your image and use these shortcuts: CTRL/Command + A (selects the image) - CTRL/Command + C (copies the image) - then click the RGB layer, and then click the layers tab (before you selected “channels”)…
- When you see your normal layers and your image in colour, use this shortcut CTRL/Command + V (this then pastes the blue, grayscale layer onto your colour one). You will now have three layers - 2 coloured ones and a grayscale one (your new one).
- You’ll see that the road sign isn’t readable - so I just got an eraser tool (E on your keyboard) and erased a bit of it.
- Aaandddd you’re done. When you try this out on other images, I would suggest fiddling with the Channel Mixer - you may want to alter the sliders a bit to suit your image more as these settings are rather unique. I hope this Channel Mixer Colouring 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.
Blue, Pink Colouring Tutorial
July 21, 2008
This Blue, Pink Colouring Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and the colours you currently have.
This effect brightens your current exposure and also alters the image colours to a more blue and pink feel. Depending on the colours of the photograph/image you end up using, it can vary as to what the effect ends up looking like.
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
- Firstly open up the image you want to use for this tutorial, if you don’t know how check this tutorial out.
- 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.
- Download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color when the first box appears change the “Normal” drop down menu to “Soft light” - then press OK, another box will appear, then select Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again.
- Go into the toolbar, select LAYER -> NEW FILL LAYER -> SOLID COLOR… when the first box appears change the “Normal” drop down menu to “Pin light” - then press OK, another box will appear, the colour box - at the bottom you’ll see 6 digits, change them to 4763b3- then press OK
- Now you need to duplicate your layer, to do that, click on the base layer in your Layers Palette, then go -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer. You’ll see that in your layers palette another layer has appeared, left click on it and drag it to the top so it’s above all of your other lays. Then find the ‘Normal’ drop down menu, and select ‘Screen’.
- OK, now you need to download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press Load -> OK again.
- As you may have noticed, a lot of steps in this tutorial are pretty similar, but don’t worry. Download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color…. when the first box appears change the “Normal” drop down menu to “Soft light” - then press OK, another box will appear, then select Load -> Locate the Selective Coloring file you downloaded on this step -> press Load -> OK again.
- 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.
Color Efffects Tutorial
June 30, 2008
This Color Effects Tutorial will explain how to color your images, add interest and depth and you can learn more.
This type of color effect helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and this exact effect is extremely useful when you have dull 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 tools in photoshop.
This tutorial was added on April 1st 2008
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Color Effects Tutorial - The Steps
- First off, duplicate your layer. To do that go, -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer… or you can use the shortcut: CTRL + J
- Now go -> Filter -> Other -> High Pass - Now change the radius to 10 - Once you’ve done that, go to your Layers Pallet and change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight”
- Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight” and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: 74b1a
- Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Gradient - when the little box appears change the opacity to Overlay - then press OK. And this will appear - although it won’t look like that. You now need to change your settings so they match min
- Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight” and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: b1748
- Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Color Burn”, and on the right you’ll see the Opacity - change that to 18% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: f8f77a
- Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Screen”, and on the right you’ll see the Opacity - change that to 40% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: 00ffb4
- Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Overlay”, and on the right you’ll see the Opacity - change that to 40% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: ff0080
- Aaannnnnddd….. your’e done! I hope this color effects tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Color Efffects Tutorial.
Enhanced Color Tutorial
June 29, 2008
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
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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.
Color Effect Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Color Effect Tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.
This 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 on April 8th 2008
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Color Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- Firstly, duplicate your layer. -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer or the handy shortcut CTRL/Control + J
- Now go, Filter -> Other -> High Pass -> change your current setting to 10 and then go to your layers pallet, find the drop down menu which currently says “Normal”, change that to “Softlight
- Next go, -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight” and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: 74b1a
- Now go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Gradient… when the first box appears, change the mode/drop down menu (which displays “Normal”) to “Overlay” then press OK. Take a look at this screenshot change your settings so they match mine. Don’t worry about the actual gradient bit at first. Once you’ve changed all the settings then click on the gradient strip, another box will appear, change the first gradient color to FF7200 and then the second to 000000
- This time go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Gradient… when the first box appears, change the mode/drop down menu (which displays “Normal”) to “Overlay” then press OK. Take a look at this screenshot change your settings so they match mine. Don’t worry about the actual gradient bit at first. Once you’ve changed all the settings then click on the gradient strip, another box will appear, change the first gradient color to 000000 and then the second to FFFFFF
- Next go, -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Softlight” and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: b17487
- And again go… -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Color Burn”, then find the opacity, change that to 18% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: f8f77a
- Once more… -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Screen”, then find the opacity, change that to 40% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: 00ffb4
- Lastly… -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… a little box will appear, change the drop down menu from “Normal” to “Overlay”, then find the opacity, change that to 40% and press OK - then another box will appear, change the colour code to this one: FF0084
- Anddd….. your’e done! I hope this tutorial was helpful, however if it was a little confusing and you’d like some help then feel free to leave a comment below regarding this Color Effect Tutorial.
Picture Coloring Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This picture coloring tutorial will explain how to add colour to your images.
This effect helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and this exact effect is great if you want to alter the colour of your image - as an example this has turned blue ish, but once you get to grips with this you will likely end up tweaking it to suit your own image.
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Picture Coloring Tutorial - The Steps
- First off… duplicate your first layer twice. To do this go -> Layer -> Duplicate Layer… or use the shortcut, CTRL/Command + J - whatever you do, do it twice. And then go to your layers pallet, select the first duplicated layer, locate the drop down menu which says “Normal” and change it to “Multiply”.
- Then select the second duplicated layer and change that from “Normal” to “Screen”.
- Now go -> Layers -> New Layer fill -> Solid color - a small box will appear, find the “normal” drop down menu, change that to “Soft Light”, press OK - another box will appear, change the colour to this: db93f3
- Now go -> Layers -> New Layer fill -> Solid color - a small box will appear, find the “normal” drop down menu, change that to “Color Burn”, then find the opacity, and change that to 71% then press OK - another box will appear, change the colour to this: 95cbf5
- Now go -> Layers -> New Layer fill -> Solid color - a small box will appear, find the “normal” drop down menu, change that to “Soft Light”, press OK - another box will appear, change the colour to this: e5f59b
- Download this file save it somewhere and then do the following…
- Next go -> Layers -> New Adjustment Layers -> Curves -> Load… -> find your file and click OK!
- Now… see your three colour layers?! Duplicate each layer (that has a colour in it) so you should end up with 6 layers. To do that, click one of them and go CTRL/Command + J
- Then one by one drag each colour to the top, 1 purple, 1 blue & 1 yellow, it should look like this now I want you to look at your top layer and change the opacity to 50%
- Then go to the purple layer and change that opactiy to 50%. And you’re done!
- Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this Picture Coloring Tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.
Pale Coloring Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This pale coloring tutorial will explain how to add colour to your images.
This effect helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and this exact effect is great if you want to alter the colour of your image - as an example this has turned blue ish, but once you get to grips with this you will likely end up tweaking it to suit your own image.
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Pale Coloring Tutorial - The Steps
- Go to Layers -> New Adjustment Layers -> Curves… make sure your settings are set to RGB, now change your settings to mine, which are below:
INPUT: 50
OUTPUT: 61Once that’s done, just click OK.
- Go to Layers -> New Fill layer -> Solid color -> enter this code: FFB6ED then click OK. Set your new pink layer to ‘OVERLAY’ and change the opacity to 36%
- Now we’re going to add a brightness/contrast effect to your image, simply by going -> Layers -> New Adjustment Layers -> Brightness/Contrast…. Now change your setting to mine: Brightness: -18 Contrast: +20
- Now that that’s done, just click OK.
- Now for the finishing touch, this is optional, depending on what image your using, but for the image I’m using, sharpening the edges gives it a nice touch. So go Filter -> Sharpen -> Sharpen Edges… and you’re done!
- Aaannnddd you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense. If you need any help regarding this pale coloring tutorial please do leave a comment below.
Adobe Photoshop Effect
June 29, 2008
This adobe photoshop effect tutorial will explain how to add colour to your images.
This effect helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and this exact effect is great if you want to alter the colour of your image - as an example this has turned blue ish, but once you get to grips with this you will likely end up tweaking it to suit your own image.
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Adobe Photoshop Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- Duplicate your base image. [To do this go -> Layer -> Duplicate layer... and press okay.]
- Now go, Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur. I suggest setting it to 10 but it’s upto you! And then press okay.
- Next, go and find your layers section. It’s on the right hand side! You should see your ‘Layer 1 copy’.
- Do you see the drop down menu? At the moment it should have Normal on it. Click the tab and look for ‘Screen’
- Just next to that there is Opacity set that to 40%!
- Now go and duplicate your layer again, [To do this go -> Layer -> Duplicate layer... and press okay.]
- Then go back to your blending mode [It's the drop down menu on the right hand side in your layer section] You’ll see its set to ’screen’. Change that to ‘Overlay’
- I have set my Opacity to 50% but feel free to leave it or fiddle with those settings there.
- Almost done, go Layers -> New fill layer -> Solid color. Fill the little colour code with 5B5205, set it to Lighten at 100%. Merge your image. (To do this go SHIFT+CTRL+E).
- Aaanndd you’re done! I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do however have any questions regarding this adobe photoshop effect then feel free to leave a comment below.
Photoshop Vintage Effect
June 29, 2008
This photoshop vintage effect tutorial will explain how to add colour to your images.
This effect is great when you want to add a more interesting look to your plain black and white images. Depending on the image you are trying this on you can tweak it to suit your images. This also works on coloured images, although it depends on the colours and if it’s not quite right, you can alter the effect simply by changing the opacity, fill and channel mixer (continue to read for more info).
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Photoshop Vintage Effect - The Steps
- With this effect I was working on the idea of creating colour to a black and white image… without doing some kind of colourization - however, this should also work with coloured images too.
- Firstly, download this gradient. Save it somewhere easy to remember and then go into Photoshop…
- Now go -> Layers -> New Layer Fill -> Gradient -> Load… search for the gradient you just downloaded and then press OK
- Locate your layers pallet and then the drop down menu which says “Normal” - change that to “Lighten”… and just to the right of it change the opacity to 78% and close to that change the fill to 77%
- Now go -> Layers -> New Adjustment Layers 0> Channel Mixer - and change your settings so they match mine: here & here. Once that’s done click OK.
- Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this photoshop vintage effect then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.
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.
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