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Hello everyone, I haven't posted in forever, so I felt like I should ^_^


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Involves Selective Coloring
made with PS CS3

Ok I've been using this coloring on a LOT of live pics ... and they majority have come out looking awesome (imo)

1. Crop your pic to your liking...
(I hate being bias with this boy)
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2. Feel free to screen once or twice, depending on the darkness of your pic.

3. SELECTIVE COLOR
WHITE : +100, +100, -100, -41
NEUTRAL : -29, -15, -41, +26
BLACK : 0, 0, 0, +24

4. HUE/SATURATION : Master Saturation +10

5. COLOR FILL with #d0c79d Photobucket, set to Darken with the opacity @ 30%
6. COLOR FILL with #fdff71 Photobucket, set to Soft Light with opacity @ 25%

7. SELECTIVE COLOR
RED : -77, +30, -23, 0
YELLOW : +60, 0, -80, 0
CYAN : +100, 0, 0, 0
BLUE : +100, 0, 0, 0
NEUTRAL : +40, 0, -13, 0

8. SELECTIVE COLOR
RED : -50, 0, +43, 0
YELLOW : -100,0, -22, 0
CYAN : +100, 0, 0, 0
BLUE : +100, 0, 0, 0
NEUTRAL : +38, 0, -10, 0

YAY no more selective color XD
9. COLOR BALANCE : Midtones ; +16, +35, +5

Add your text/textures of choice and you are done
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Other Examples :
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and in larger format :

PSD, if anyone wants it

Feel free to ask me anything about the tut, and post results if you want ^_^