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Program used: PSP

Translatable: Yes

Uses: Color balance, hue/saturation/lightness, optional channel mixer

 

1.Crop your base to 100x100.

2. Duplicate your base to screen and set the opacity to 88.

3.Add a new Hue/Saturation/Lightness layer. & change JUST the saturation to the following:

Master: 17

Reds: 12

Yellows: 48

Magentas: 2

4. Add a new color balance layer with the following settings:

Midtones: 23, 0, -46

Shadows: 0, 0, -14

Keep preserve luminance checked & leave the highlights at 0, 0, 0.

5: Add a new raster layer and fill it with #4FE6EF and set it to softlight at opacity 10.

Optional:

6. Add a channel mixer layer with the following settings:

Red: red:116, green: 8, blue: -15

Green: red: 0, green: 98, blue: 0

Blue: red: 3, green: 0, blue: 112, constant:5

7. Flatten & your done.


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