WARM COLOURING
works well on screencaps (darker ones), and low saturated images and especially on closeups with lots of skin.
I guess it's quite easy, but non-translatable (made in PS7).
1, As usual, crop your base.
Then, depending of its darkness and saturation, we're adding screen and soft light layers.
IMPORTANT: This exclusively depends on your base's quality, so follow the instruction according to your picture's properties. So:
2, I duplicated the base layer twice, set each of them to Screen, 100% (to make it lighter), and then I duplicated the base once more, but this time I set it to Soft Light, around 25-30%, to make it look brighter. And got this:
(You can simply leave out the Soft light layer if the image turns out to be too harshly coloured. OR, can insert a Hue/Saturation layer here and reduce saturation.)
3, Now come the adjustment layers!
CURVES: (to make our tiny little icon even more vibrant)
RBG, first point: 107, 155
RGB, second point: 53, 62
RBG, first point: 107, 155
RGB, second point: 53, 62
4, Then, we simply add a new fill layer,. #A79EE0, and set it to Soft Light, 100%. Lilac shade, we want. Because it's soft. Result:
5,
Selective coloring.
REDS -100, +25, +100, +100
NEUTRALS +14, +11, -7, 0
We're done!
REDS -100, +25, +100, +100
NEUTRALS +14, +11, -7, 0
you can also find this tutorial @
atoms_4peace .