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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Brighter Colours in Photoshop
June 29, 2008
This Brighter Colours in Photoshop Tutorial will show you another way of adding a different colour to your image.
In this tutorial I use a lot of layer adjustment tools - they’re great when you want to alter and tweak your images colous, lightening, colouring, all sorts of things - hopefully by following this you’ll become more comfortable with the layer adjustment tools and end up tweaking my settings to suit your own images.
The only thing with layer adjustment tools is that some settings work on images and then on others they need altering - it’s very annoying at times and yet wonderful when you get it right as the image turns out even more beautiful!
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Brighter Colours in Photoshop Tutorial - The Steps
- First of all, open a image in Photoshop - then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Channel Mixer - change your settings to match my own and then press OK
- Now download this curves file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Curves -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press OK -> OK again
- Now go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Color Balance - change your settings so that they match my own.
- Again go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Color Balance - change your settings so that they match my own.
- Now go -> 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 ec43be - then press OK
- Again go -> Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Color… when the first box appears change the Opacity to 26% 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 8292c6 - 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 0.84 and then the third to 246 - 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 0 then the second to 0.74 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.
- Now, change the drop down menu from "Red" to "Green", and then at the top you’ll see input levels - change the first to 0 then the second to 1.44 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.
- 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 69 then the second to 2.50 and then the third to 252 - 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!
- Now download this selective colouring file and then go -> Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color -> Load -> Locate your newly downloaded file -> press OK -> OK again
- Phew. That’s it - the last file, the selective colour may make a diference to your image and it may not… if it doesn’t come out quite how you want it to, just play with the settings, you’ll be amazed what happens! If you have any questions regarding this Brighter Colours in Photoshop Tutorial then just drop me a line in the below comment box. I’ll happily reply.
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