Tutorial 07
Program: Photoshop CS3
Difficulty: Medium
Translatable: Yes
PSD Included: No
| 0. Crop I got my picture from lost-media.com, cropped it and resized it to 100x100. |
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| 1. Duplicate your base twice and set both copies to Screen. The first, fill at 100% and the second one, fill at 60%. Play around with the fill and opacity. It depends on your picture; the darker the picture the higher the fill/opacity. |
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| 2. Create a new Curves Layer (Layers – New Adjustment Layer – Curves) RGB: Input: 55, Output: 70 Green: Input: 80, Output: 65 Blue: Input: 65, Output: 45 This will brighten and emphasize the reddish part of your picture. In doing so it lays the foundation for the aimed brownish coloring. |
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| 3. Create a Color Fill Layer: # 73a69e – Set it to Multiply – Fill: 20 % With the last step the picture turned out a little bit to red. The Color Fill Layer normalizes the color of the skin and increases the contrast. The layer does also set the basic color of the background. |
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| 4. Create a Color Fill Layer: # ebe57f – Set it to Color Burn – Fill: 20 % Similar to step 2, this will set up the aimed brownish coloring. The Color Fill Layer turns the flat red coloring into a brownish one. |
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| 5. Merge all layers, then copy and paste (press Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E), and sharpen your new picture. I used the Smart Sharpen filter. (Filter - Sharpen - Smart Sharpen) Again, the amount depends on your picture, don't overdo it. | ||
| 6. Create a Color Fill Layer: # e8f0eb - Set it to Color Burn The new Color Fill Layer will add some contrast. Alternatively, you could use a Levels layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Levels). With the settings 0 | 0,90 | 255 you get a similar effect. |
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| 7. Optional Create a new Layer (Layer - New - Layer). Use a soft white brush (# ffffff) and stamp it on your new layer, wherever you want to lighten your picture. Set the blending mode of the layer to Soft Light - Fill: 60 % I stamped the white brush on the left cheek to adjust the skin tone. |
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| 8. Optional Add a light texture. Set the blending mode to Soft Light - Fill: 50 % This step is as optional as the one before. Personally, I wanted to spiff up the background so I created a simple light texture. |
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Other example: That's it, and I'd love to see your results if you try this out. :) Originally posted over here at  shadedcolor | ||