Coloring Tutorial
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>> Sorry, but it's non-translatable
>> Uses Selective Coloring
1. Crop your image however you like. It's popular to sharpen it first, but I didn't.
2. Duplicate your image and set it to Screen. For this example, I left the opacity at 100%, but you can change it according to the picture.
3. Go to Layer+New Adjustment Layer+Hue/Saturation. Saturation + 20.
4. Go to Layer+New Adjustment Layer+Selective Color:
Red: -100, 0, +100, 0
Yellow: 0, 0, -100, 0
Cyan: +30, 0, -100, 0
Neutral: +35, +10, -35, -15
[At any point after this step, you can stop if you like what you see.]
5. Go to Layer+New Adjustment Layer+Color Balance:
Shadows: -14, +20, +14
Midtones: +36, -20, +39
Highlights: -20, +13, -18
Make sure Preserve Luminosity is checked.
6. Duplicate your Hue/Saturation Layer from Step 3, and drag to the top of the layer palette.
7. Create a new layer, and flood fill it with #f9dfc8. Set it to Multiply, 100%.
8. Create another new layer, and flood fill it with #020828. Set it to Exclusion, 100%.
9. Duplicate your original cropped picture (should be the bottom layer or Layer 1) and drag it to the top of the layer palette. Set it to Soft Light, 100%.
10. That's icon example 1. But I wanted something that looked a little closer to the Selective Coloring Layer from Step 4.
Using the Step 9 Soft Light layer, go to Image+Adjustments+Gradient Map. The settings should be done for you. Make sure your dark color [foreground] is still #020828, and your light color [background] is #ffffff.
11. You're done. Add text or brushes beyond this point if it suits you. I liked the effect, so I left it blank.
Other Examples:
>> Sorry, but it's non-translatable
>> Uses Selective Coloring
1. Crop your image however you like. It's popular to sharpen it first, but I didn't.
2. Duplicate your image and set it to Screen. For this example, I left the opacity at 100%, but you can change it according to the picture.
3. Go to Layer+New Adjustment Layer+Hue/Saturation. Saturation + 20.
4. Go to Layer+New Adjustment Layer+Selective Color:
Red: -100, 0, +100, 0
Yellow: 0, 0, -100, 0
Cyan: +30, 0, -100, 0
Neutral: +35, +10, -35, -15
[At any point after this step, you can stop if you like what you see.]
5. Go to Layer+New Adjustment Layer+Color Balance:
Shadows: -14, +20, +14
Midtones: +36, -20, +39
Highlights: -20, +13, -18
Make sure Preserve Luminosity is checked.
6. Duplicate your Hue/Saturation Layer from Step 3, and drag to the top of the layer palette.
7. Create a new layer, and flood fill it with #f9dfc8. Set it to Multiply, 100%.
8. Create another new layer, and flood fill it with #020828. Set it to Exclusion, 100%.
9. Duplicate your original cropped picture (should be the bottom layer or Layer 1) and drag it to the top of the layer palette. Set it to Soft Light, 100%.
10. That's icon example 1. But I wanted something that looked a little closer to the Selective Coloring Layer from Step 4.
Using the Step 9 Soft Light layer, go to Image+Adjustments+Gradient Map. The settings should be done for you. Make sure your dark color [foreground] is still #020828, and your light color [background] is #ffffff.
11. You're done. Add text or brushes beyond this point if it suits you. I liked the effect, so I left it blank.
Other Examples: