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.
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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.
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.
Saturated Effect Tutorial
June 29, 2008
This Saturated Effect Tutorial will explain how to add a subtle painting effect.
This effect is great for images which have too much colour and maybe you want something more saturated… colour doesn’t always work and there is a lovely elegance in saturated, black/white images
Once you know how to do this you can easily alter it to work with other images… the best thing about this is it’s simple to remember, once you’ve done it you’ll never forget how to do this!
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Saturated Effect Tutorial - The Steps
- You duplicate the base of your image (Layer -> Duplicate Layer ) Set that duplicate to Overlay (to do this go to your layers pallet, locate the drop down menu which says "Normal", change that to "Overlay" - if by any chance you cannot see your layers pallet, press the key F7 it will call the layers pallet) and then change the opacity to what ever you think looks best (mine is set at 100% because it made the flowers more focused).
- Create a new fill layer (Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Solid Colour) and put this colour in #7a8679 and then change the layer type to Saturation (layers pallet - normal drop down menu, change to Saturation).
- There you go, you’ve got that greeny saturation effect that adds a dramatic and great look to images… I’d suggest trying this out on a few other images, just to see what it can do on different types of images. This effect works wonders on other types of images, just try messing around with the opacity levels and also the colour layer. Go wild!
- And that’s it! I hope this Saturated Effect Tutorial was useful and good luck with all of your designing. If you have any problems, questions or anything else regarding this tutorial then leave a comment below!
Written by Cameron
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