Super Smash Bros. Brawl - MetaKnight Tutorial

The coloring that I'm using in this tutorial...is AMAZING! I have completely fallen in love with this coloring. It works with bright images with alot of red/green/blue/gray. So heres the tutorial:

step one

Take your image and crop it. Sharpen it/blur it. Whatever, just prep your base. I will be using this image of Metaknight from Super Smash Bros. Brawl that I took while playing with my niece >_____<

step two

Duplicate your base and set it to Soft Light 100%

step three

Make a new layer and flood fill it with #ecf99e and set it to Soft Light 30%

step four

Make a new Selective Coloring layer and enter these settings:

Reds: -100, 50, 100, 0
Neutrals: 40, 0, -10, 0

step five

Duplicate step 4 or simply make a new Selective Coloring layer and enter these settings:

Reds: -100, 50, 100, 0
Neutrals: 40, 0, -10, 0

step six

Make a new Curves layer (Go to Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Curves) and enter these settings:
(the line should be curving slightly up fyi)

Output: 85
Input: 66

step seven

Make a new layer and flood fill it with 070d48 and set it to Exclusion 100%

step eight

Duplicate step seven or you can make a new layer and flood fill it with 070d48 and set it to Exclusion at 100%

step nine

Duplicate your base (your starting image) and drag it to the top. Desaturate it and set it to Soft Light 100%. To desaturate an image in Photoshop, hit CTRL+SHIFT+U. In PSP and other programs, I think you go to Layer? or Adjust? then Hue/Sat and on MASTER drag the slider all the way to -100.

step ten

Go to Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Hue/Sat and up the satration to +30 on MASTER



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