First Tut?

This is my first tutorial, ever! I just figured I'd take a shot at it, lemme know what you think!

Going from this to this

Program: Photoshop CS3

Tutorial & a couple examples under cut.



1) Crop & prepare your image ;

2) Duplicate your base -> set to screen at 80% opacity

3) Duplicate base again -> drag to top -> Set to luminosity 100%

4) Duplicate base one more time -> desaturate it (CTRL+SHIFT+U) -> set it to soft light at 42% opacity. NOTE: You can adjust this when finished depending on your image, some images may look better without it.

5) Create new fill layer -> Solid color -> Fill with #000833 -> set to exclusion at 100% opacity

6) Create another fill layer -> Fill with #380101 -> Set to exclusion at 50% opacity

7) New adjustment layer -> Hue/Saturation -> Saturation +15

8) OPTIONAL: New adjustment layer -> selective color -> neutrals -> black +7. I just used this to darken the image up a bit.

9) New adjustment layer -> exposure
Exposure: +0.18
Offset: -0.0059
Gamma Correction:1.02

And you're done!

Examples:


Feedback & Your results are much appreciated. If you need any help lemme know :]
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