thunder and lightning are crashing down.

all we've got.

2012-09-11T08:50:47Z

[5] medium/large textures
(grunge, lights, handmade)

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

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download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

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download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

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download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

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download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

time machine.

2012-09-10T09:59:31Z

It's so wonderful to be here again!
I hadn't been posting anything in the last five months due to a lot of life facts, and this just makes me feel so messed up, since I kinda screwed up my journal for the 2nd time #just saying. But we can handle it, since I'm here to present you a quite good change that might please you: I'm on my way to dismiss my mediafire account, or better. All the packages with my resources are still there, but I decided to replace most of the download links with my deviantart page related links, so you can download all of my old (and new) resources directly from my art page. You can also add me to your deviantwatch, so you can be warned when I post something new, or just add some of my packages to your favourites. I'll keep updating my journal, anyway :) so don't run away!
I also wanted to thank you SO MUCH for all the download clicks on my resources: I checked my mediafire account stats for the 1st time, today, and I found that.. you, guys, downloaded my graphic resources for 26,517 times until today! It's unbelievable, this is totally unexpected!

I promise I'll be back soon, so stay tuned and thank you so much for your support :-)

the wait is over.

2012-04-15T13:41:33Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my mediafire account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Any trouble with dark images? Would you love to keep all of those magical shadows, when you're creating something colorful? Well, this is the perfect tutorial for you :D I used this screenshot from capturedgracemusic.

So the tutorial will show you how to turn the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. Here we are, with a brand new coloring. As I wrote in the summary, this will be your main salvation when you have to work on a dark screenshot, based on cold colors such as dark blue and grey. So I decided to work on a Game of Thrones screenshot, since this movie is filled with a lot of cold tones, like this screenshot. It's always pretty hard working on dark images like this, and I didn't even take one of the darkes from the gallery. I'll definetely create a tutorial for that, sooner or later, even if the technique used is the same. All right, let's just do this. Since this image is pretty dark, we begin with duplicating the base twice, and let's just set both copies to Screen, so we're already half done!

3. Look at those wonderful lights *o* the image has come to life, yeah! You see, it often depends by the quality of the image: if you're working on an high quality one, you can feel free to adjust it with no worries, and this is that case. Our image didn't pixelate, so we're not afraid to keep on working on that. What about creating a first, soft color level? Let's take our Color Balance tool and let's think about a base tone. I'm thinking of a violet.
   midtones: +48 | -13 | +2
   shadows: +31 | +49 | +41
   highlights: +81 | +47 | +85

4. All right, another advice for you. You can often play with different tones: we just created a soft violet tone, but we can turn it into something slightly different by darkening it. Violet and blue are such as wonderful tones, imho. Why don't we try to match them together? You must know that I usually appreciate warm colorings, but the violet/blue couple is interesting too. Let's take the Exposure tool and let's set something like:
   +0,34 | -0,0724 | 1,40

5. We brang all of our beloved shadows back, isn't it great? And that's exactly what I was talking about! Creating some vivid colors without deleting our shadows. It's time to play with some tones. What about some blue? Or, better: what about some blue and violet? Didn't we notice that these tones looks great together? It's time for some gradients.
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp) > set to Saturation > 100% (opacity)
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp) > set to Linear light > 100% (opacity)
The second gradient presents a very dark yellow, it's an almost green: it gives to the image a warm tone.

6. The last step, guys: you see, dark images are pretty easy. This just took us less time than ever! Let's take our Selective Coloring tool and let's darken the white tones a little, since they might be too lightened. You won't be able to see the difference, anyway, since this is just a soft adjustment.
   whites: +100 | 0 | +36 | 0
if your image still looks too bright, you can try to repeat this step and darken the white tones again.

All of the colorings in the world always hide a double face inside of them: when I finished this one, for example, I thought that a final adjustment could give to the image a final and stunning touch, so I kept on working, but I felt like the second outcome didn't match with the first coloring, so I decided to break the .psd up. The first group contains the previous coloring, and the second group contains a second version of the first coloring: I just added a Curves layer.
blue: (output: 125; input: 255)

Instead of a cold mixage of colors, such as this:

we're going to have a completely different coloring, mixed up with some warm yellow/orange/brown tones:

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I think that both colorings are awesome ^^
PSD | credits are always required, children e_e

easy chair..

2012-04-07T10:10:13Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my mediafire account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
This time we'll see how to create a gorgeous blue and yellow mix, with tons of misterious shadows . I used this screenshot from capturedgracemusic.

So the tutorial will show you how to turn the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. Okay, that's it! I started to watch the Game of Thrones series and ended up with loving that movie. I already red the first four books, and I'm waiting for more money to come, since I can't wait to buy the following books. They are simply magical. I've been thinking that nothing would have ever beaten the Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I was totally wrong, since this is epic. Anyway! Today we're working with a Bran close-up, who is one of the main characters of the series. What a lovely child x) And you know what? I decided to experiment a lot, this time: this will be the first of a coloring series which will be slightly different from the previous. I really hope this will help you. All right, let's begin! I wanted to create something dark, this time, and since I've never worked with mainly blue tones.. the outcome will be stunning, people. We'll start with duplicating our base image twice: set the first copy (from the base) to Screen, as usual (this helps us to create new highlights without creating a mess).
   "Contrast" will be the password for the entire coloring: contrast means a sharp difference between the skin and the rest of the image, which will be plunged into darkness. So let's take the second copy, and let's apply a blur to it:
    Filters > blur > gaussian blur > 3,8 or 4,0
    set this layer to Overlay. We're finished with this, main step.

3. I found that this technique helps us creating a new, original effect to the image. Now we can start to think about the colors. What about a dark violet, which is the perfect way to get a great blue? (I know that's strange, but don't you dare contradict photoshop's weird things, ahah)
   Layer > New fill layer > #7e00d6 > Soft light > 100%

4. That's okay, we didn't ruin the image at all! From now on we'll refine the tones step by step, so let's begin with a Selective Coloring, and let's try to turn our flat colors into something particular.
   yellows: -100 | +15 | +31 | 0
   cyan: -100 | 0 | +76 | 0
   blue: +100 | +16 | +100 | +98
   magenta: -32 | 0 | +21 | +13
   whites: +37 | +7 | +100 | -15
   neutrals: -32 | -17 | +11 | +4
   blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +59

5. We have our red tones back, but all the blue ones just faded away. What about a curves adjustment? This tool will be perfect, since it will only adjust the blue tones, without corrupting anything else.
   - blue (point #1: output: 243; input:220)
            (point #2: output: 43; input: 24)

6. Okay, that's just what we were looking for. I definetely think that this blue tone is perfect, we only have to refine the coloring a bit, and then we'll be finished. So, do you remember what I said at the beginning of the tutorial? Well, this has to be a very dark coloring, so we have to darken everything, and we'll use our base image again for that. Duplicate the base, and grab it to the top of the layers: take the blur tool again, and set something like 5,0 or 5,3, then set the layer to Soft Light. YAY! That's just a-w-e-s-o-m-e! I love the blur effect, it gives a fairy note to the image, it seems ethereal or something!

7. The last step for you, guys, and then we'll be done :D we're going to create a gradient, since we love gradients a lot u_u
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp) > 34% (opacity)
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    You can ignore this step, if you think that blue doesn't match with yellow, but remember that strangeness is the way, so I really recommend to follow this. All you have to do is giving a cool ray of color to the image.
Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp) > Multiply > 100% (opacity) - or a little less

That's just way too cool, isn't it? ;)

PSD | credits required e_e

you didn't have to cut me off.

2012-04-05T11:51:10Z

[4] medium sized textures
(grunge, tumblr)

download them here / zip file @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

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download them here / zip file @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

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download them here / zip file @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

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download them here / zip file @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

creeper.

2012-03-24T18:05:59Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my mediafire account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
This time we'll see how to create a strange mixage of dark orange, brown and yellow tones . I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.

So the tutorial will show you how to turn the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. I think this will be the first coloring in which we don't have to screen the base, eheh. We don't need much lightning, this time, since I thought to create something darker. So leave the main base alone and let's just take the Levels tool.
    38 | 1,00 | 255
and set this layer to Color. You may think that this didn't help us, since I bet that no one will see the difference: and you're right. All you have to do now is duplicate this layer thrice, so we'll have four copies of the same layer. When you'll be finished, the picture will seem so more colorful.

3. Now another, main step: the curves. I personally hate this tool, but I must admit that when you need your picture to be refined with only a couple of colors, this helps a lot. What we'll be trying to do now is adding a lot of warm colors, without ruining the main lightning. So pay a lot of attention with this! We're going to use all of the available tones.
    - RGB (output: 255; input: 210)
    - red (point #1: output: 186; input: 196)
          (point #2: output: 75; input: 58)
    - green (point #1: output: 200; input: 223)
               (point #2: output: 68; input: 78)
               (point #3: output: 162; input: 157)
    - blue (point #1: output: 90; input: 84)
             (point #2: output: 179; input: 158)
             (point #3: output: 215; input: 202)
             (point #4: output: 206; input: 228)

4. Yeah, it seems to be a lot of red! Now let's think about that: we need some colder tones, and the Channel Mixer will be perfect for that, since even this tool is perfect when you don't want to change a thing about the lightning in your picture.
    green: +21 | +79 | +32 | -12
    blue: +11 | -20 | +122 | -4

5. I simply love these warm and dark colors: we can see some brown tones, a light yellow, and a dark red. We only need to lighten the mixage a bit, by adding a new color: a soft brown.
    Layer > New fill layer > #5e4d43 > Exclusion > 33%

6. We're almost finished, guys. This will be one of the final adjustments for a perfect coloring. We need to bring our dark tones back, and for that we're using the Color Balance tool.
    midtones: +21 | +11 | +23
    shadows: +51 | +67 | +75
    highlights: +23 | +39 | 0
The darker it gets, the cooler it will be in the end. So let's just duplicate this layer once (you'll have two color balance layers at the top of the levels).

7. The final step, and you'll be done! We need to give a final adjustment to our warm colors (dark yellow, brown and dark red) so let's take our magical, beloved Selective Coloring tool, and set something like this:
    reds: -30 | -7 | +7 | -8
    yellows: +100 | -68 | -16 | 0
    greens: 0 | -100 | -100 | +100
    cyan: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
    blue: +17 | -7 | +80 | +100
    magentas: -25 | +36 | +88 | 0
    whites: -89 | -100 | -100 | +100
    neutrals: -13 | -9 | 0 | 0
    blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +3
and set this layer to 81% (opacity) but it still changes image by image.

You've made it!
PSD | credits required | comments make my day :)

welcome home.

2012-03-11T16:04:27Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my mediafire account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
We'll create something dark, this time, with a picture based on warm colors. I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.

So the tutorial will show you how to turn the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. Here's a useful warning before we start: as I already wrote in the beginning, this tutorial will help you to create a dark coloring on a screenshot, but this one works better for those pictures that have red, pink or some orange tones. If you're working with a picture that contains a lot of cold colors (such as blue, light blue and even green) this won't bring you to a good result. You may try and adjust the tones later, anyway! Here we are, with this perfect screenshot: as you can see, the base is pretty dark, and the perfect (and faster) remedy for this is.. yeah, we all know what I'm talking about :D duplicate+screen, of course! We just have to duplicate the base twice, this time, since the picture is quite dark, and set both copies to Screen.

3. You know what? We're still not satisfied with the light. When I started to work on this coloring, I just thought about a cool contrast between cold lights and dark shadows: we need a shocking re-lightning, then. The perfect tool for this is the Exposure, since it gives us complete control on the main highlights and shadows. Follow me and set something like this:
   +0,43 | +0,0294 | 1,24

4. Now Cook's illuminated by the divine light, yeah! It's time to think about all of the invisible tones, since this new lightning made them disappear. What we're going to do now is only give some color to our base, so you could basically choose any tone that you prefer: I think that starting with a light brown and a dark yellow would be great. Let's check them out in the following step:
   Layer > New fill layer > #9c886a > Multiply > 100%
   Layer > New fill layer > #f0c208 > Luminosity > 33%
I already told you that you can choose any tone that you want: the main thing is that you have to try to create a very strange mix of dark and light colors. Just don't darken them to much.

5. Selective coloring, guys! Let's keep creating strange tones with the previous colors.
   reds: -60 | +6 | +16 | +5
   yellows: +36 | -30 | +70 | +95
   greens: +100 | -100 | -74 | 0
   cyan: +100 | -69 | -100 | +49
   blue: +39 | -64 | -95 | +53
   whites: -15 | -92 | -100 | +100
   neutrals: +11 | +13 | -13 | -2
Gosh, what have we done.. that's a mess. And that's just perfect! When you want to create dark gradients or dark colorings, you can feel free to have fun with hundreds of colors, even if they just can't stay together.

6. These three gradients will adjust everything: we're about to create the final look for our coloring.
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Linear light > 91%
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Luminosity > 24%
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Overlay > 100%

7. The last step, guys, and then we'll be finished. Since our image may appear too lightened, I recommend you to duplicate your base image, grab it to the top of the layers and set it to Soft light > 100% even if it depends by the type of the image.

You're done. yeppieee ^-^
PSD | credits required | comments make my day :)

I think I'm in love.

2012-02-24T11:38:27Z

Hell yeah, people.
I've got nothing new to say, even if I can tell you that I've been so happy thorugh the last few days.. I think I'm love :D Cheers for that! Anyway, I brang some new large and icon textures, I think they're pretty interesting, since large textures may be used for tumblr too :)
oh, and take notice that I replaced all the download links, since megaupload won't work anymore.
face the textures -- and enjoy!

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

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download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

skins will always be the way

2012-02-14T11:43:38Z

You'll be amazed when you'll know that this second coloring is just a simple adjustment of the first coloring. Hell yeah! I won't explain you how to create this second one, since all of the layers are just the same.
The only thing you have to do is:
- delete the Color Balance layer (or reset the opacity)
So you will have two different colorings, with just one different layer. Here it is an example, just so you know how this will look like.

This coloring will transform the screenshot from this:

to this:

If you're not deleting the Color Balance layer, the second coloring will look like this, anyway:

it will be a perfect copy of the previous coloring.

Tha's all folks!
PSD | credits required | comments make my day :)

happy Valentine's day, my lovers!

is tropical.

2012-01-22T09:33:30Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my megaupload account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Today we will see how to give a new lightning to a medium lightned picture, and how to add a lot of strong colors such as white, red, violet and yellow. I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.

So the tutorial will show you how to turn the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. We finally stopped here, and I'm so glad since this is one of my favourite coloring: I created this without thinking, but the outcome really surprised me: with the right picture, this will give you a lot of joy. All right, then, let's begin with duplicating our base twice! We're gonna set the first copy to Screen, and the second layer to Soft light: here's a stamp, just to show you the correct order of the layers. Right, why did we just set the second copy to soft light? As I always say, simplicity always win. By setting the first copy to screen we gave to our screenshot an additional lightning; by setting the second copy to soft light, we strenghtened some of the main colors which are laying in the picture: yellows, whites, a little of blacks.

3. Ok, before we continue following this tutorial, I warn you: there will be a lot of gradient layers. I usually hate following tutorials full of gradients, so I won't blame you if you're going to ignore this tutorial u_u now, it's time to learn. Here we are: let's take a journey, destination:
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
set this layer to Overlay > 43%
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Soft Light > 49%

4. That's what happened to our image: we added a lot of white tones, but we covered them with all of that yellow tones. Don't panic, we still have all of those whites, we're gonna use them later. The next step will add a lot of contrast. Let's take our precious Color Balance tool, and set something like this:
   midtones: +66 | -64 | +54
   shadows: -88 | +11 | +20
   lights: -23 | +11 | -25

5. Again, don't panic. It seems that our colors just faded away, but they're still here, but not that visible. And this is why I love programs like Photoshop: this just won't destroy any color, if you don't want to! We just gotta find a way to cover them and rescue them later, like we're going to do in the following step. Do you remember when we strenghtened all of those yellow tones? This is the perfect moment to call them back. What we need now is just another gradient layer.
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Saturation > 100%
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Saturation > 48%

6. What did I just say? Hell yeah, tones of colors, finally! Our screenshot bursts, we almost made it. I only want to make you notice a couple of things: we still have our saturation, our colors and all the lightning. This is why you always have to play with Photoshop, you don't have to work with it; in the end, it will look like you've been having fun all along, and your graphic will always look young. Anyway, here are the latest adjustments, and then we'll be done.
   Layer > New fill layer > Solid color > #ff00fc
set this layer to Luminosity > 27%
This will adjust all of those strong highlights which may pixelate your image, and it's the perfect prelude for the next, last step.

7. Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (stamp)
set this layer to Soft light > 100%
What a perfect ending for our coloring! Don't you think? ^_-

And you're done!
PSD | credits required | comments make my day :)

shadowhunters are cool.

2012-01-10T17:23:12Z

Good evening, since i'ts already 18:00pm in Italy :)
I haven't been posting resources for a while, since I had tons of psds for you, but now I'm back with new packages of textures. Oh, and I have a good name for you: Shadowhunters. This is a saga written by Cassandra Clare who really amazed me! Do you know her? Buy her books, anyway :D

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ mediafire.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

trapne @ 2012-01-06T21:21:00

2012-01-06T20:21:41Z

Happy new year, people!
In the previous post I linked some of the greatest resources for your Christmas, but it's time to turn back to our stuff, like colorings. And for the restrictions I wrote of: I'm done. Steal, if you want: I won't give a damn, since there's a few people who still have time to write here, so I'll just let this go. Here you go!

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my megaupload account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

{ I created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Today we will see how to spread a lot of pink and light blue tones from a medium dark screenshot, but take note that this will create a lot of strange tones. I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.

So the tutorial will show you how to transform the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. That's what we always do before we start working on an image: we duplicate it. But this time we're going to duplicate it twice, since the screenshot is very dark, so if you're working on an already lightened image, you'll see if you need to duplicate it twince or once. It's up to you, as always. Anyway: with this screenshot, we have to duplicate the base twice, and set both copies to screen, that's it.

3. First base for our coloring: we have to add some yellow tones, right? They're already there, and this will be the perfect way to start: we won't have to crawl for creating some new tones, since yellow colors are there. So let's do this:
   Layer > New fill layer > Solid color > #d9ae00
This is a dark yellow which will help us mix all the light colors together. Let's set this layer to Vivid light > 19%

4. The following step will be one of the most important for this coloring. Creating a new solid color layer is always a good beginning, but sometimes images may need some adjustments which always come with the practice: and this is one of them. Following this step will guide you to create a delicate glaze through all of the image, which will attenuate all of those shocking colorings. What I'm telling you is that colors always have thousand ways of being used, it depends of what are you looking for. Follow me, then!
   Layer > New fill layer > Solid color > #00f2b6
set this layer to Luminosity > 25%

5. We're ok with the colors, for now. What we have to do now is thinking about all the shadows, midtones and highlights. And yeah, I'm talking about the Color Balance. Let's have some fun with this:
   midtones: +47 | -51 | -72
   shadows: -57 | -36 | -77
   lights: -39 | +17 | +77

6. Our image turned into a crap, yeah, I know. But it needed that, since we exasperated all of the yellow tones for the final outcome. Now it's time to add all of the colors that we want. What about some pink? It may be very strange the yellow/pink couple, but we'll give it a try. Are you with me? Selective Coloring, guys.
   reds: -100 | +12 | -55 | +41
   yellows: -41 | -10 | +18 | -11
   cyan: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
   magenta: -54 | +11 | +100 | -3
   whites: +27 | -42 | +100 | +15
   neutrals: -32 | +15 | -30 | -7
   blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +100

7. This step is optional, and it will only darken a little our image. Duplicate once the base, grab it to the top and set it to Luminosity > 19%.

8. The last step for you, guys! These final steps generally are based on a gradient, and this does not make exeption. We have our tones ready, the perfect lightning, the perfect adjustment: it lasts only a fader.
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
set this layer to Luminosity > 37%

And you're done!
PSD | credits required | comments make my day :)

oh oh oh!

2011-12-24T15:18:43Z

Oh oh oooh! Look what the cat dragged in!
This is a special post I made for all the visitors who still feel that Christmas is in the air :-) So, for those who are still dreaming and for those who are still packing their presents for the people they love.. merry Christmas, everyone!

And now.. graphics suggestions, people!

Since this year I'm feeling like Christmas caught me totally, and since I'm buying presents for all my parents, I was asking myself why not to write some suggestions for you, dear visitors! What about handmade presents? There's nothing better that a quite good book or.. a handmade gift. In this case you can use all of your creativity, you just gotta let your mind go and create something special for someone who you really love, like your best friend or your parents. I think that creating is so much funnier than buying, since you can really give something that is all yours. I laugh to all the people who still think that price is the most important thing, in a present.
Anyway, I'm not teaching you how to create an handmade gift, but I wanted to leave something special for you. I didn't create anything for Christmas (I have tons of old resources for everyone, I'll post them soon as always) but I thought that a lot of great designers did, so here's a little list of my favourite resources for this Christmas. I hope you find them useful, there should be more people who share other designers' work. And this is that case!
Merry Christmas, everyone :)

- Fonts for free (read the terms, anyway)

- Pngs for free (you absolutely have to read the terms)

180 Christmas PNG files by ~EvergreenMashi on deviantART

Christmas Tree PNG Collection by ~EvergreenMashi on deviantART

Christmas Lights PNGs by *redheadstock on deviantART

Christmas Icon Set by ~MKho on deviantART

sweet candycane - png by ~rainbows-stock on deviantART

Christmas png by ~Magiagrafica on deviantART

Christmas PNGs - 2212 by ~Missesglass on deviantART

Christmas images png by ~MyAdoratiionBabyV on deviantART

Christmas Stickers png + PS brushes by ~kingabrit on deviantART

- Textures for free (you absolutely have to read the terms)

Merry Christmas by ~Missesglass on deviantART

Textures - Gift by ~So-ghislaine on deviantART

Christmas textures by ~germanot--gaga on deviantART

christmas stars textures by ~rainbows-stock on deviantART

light bokeh. texture 06. by ~monxcheri on deviantART

pattern textures pack 01 by ~chulii-stock on deviantART

Christmas Textures Package by ~CarpeSav on deviantART

- Pattern for free (always read the terms and blah blah)

christmas pattern by ~roula33 on deviantART

- Brushes for free (you know what? read all the terms and be happy!)

Christmas brushes by *flina on deviantART

Brushes - Tim Burton's plants by ~PinkBassist3 on deviantART

Christmas Brushes Vol.1 by ~fiftyfivepixels on deviantART

Christmas Brushes by =Coby17 on deviantART

Snowflakes Photoshop Brushes by ~env1ro on deviantART

Christmas Balls: PS Brushes by ~fiftyfivepixels on deviantART

Have fun and have a nice Christmas time!

alice in wonderland returns..

2011-12-17T10:00:44Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my megaupload account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

{ created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Today we will see how to spread pink, orange and blue colors from a medium dark screenshot. I used this screenshot, but I really don't remember where it comes from.

So the tutorial will show how to transform the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. All right, people, let me say only one thing before we start the tutorial. This will of course help you to spread some vivid colors from a dark screenshot, but it may not help you with every type of image! Our base, for example, is pretty dark and it seems not to have skin colors, and tones are really flat: this is an example of the perfect base for this coloring. You can try to apply this one on a vibrant picture, but you'll definetely need to adjust the layers, since it will spread too much colors. And in the end it will be a crap. So pay attention with your base, ok? Well, let's start, then. Let's start with the most important step in a colorig: duplicate your base image, but this time duplicate it twice, and set both copies to Screen.

3. It seems that our screenshot is too illuminated now, but that's what we needed, since bright colors will help us through the following steps. Let's take our magical Selective Coloring tool, and let's try to give some brand new tones to this picture:
   reds: -100 | +45 | +29 | +89
   yellows: -100 | +29 | +56 | +73
   greens: -100 | +100 | -100 | 0
   cyan: +100 | +16 | -45 | +13
   whites: 0 | 0 | 0 | +70
   neutrals: -11 | +14 | -14 | 0
   blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +17

4. Our colors finally came to life. We have just spread some vivid colors such as oranges, yellows and pink tones. Some blue is already painted on the background, so we're happy with that, aren't we? Now we can mess around with the lightning: what about creating a new lightning point with a yellow tone? This will revitalize our base.
   Layer > New fill layer > Solid color > #fff000
set this layer to Soft light > 25% (opacity)

5. We added a new lightning to the image, but we definetely need to bring some blue and orange tones back, so let's take our Selective Coloring again and let's try to balance our colors with care:
   reds: -53 | +25 | +54 | +10
   yellows: +39 | +62 | 25 | 0
   greens: +100 | +100 | -100 | 0
   cyan: +92 | +19 | -85 | 0
   blue: +57 | -22 | -100 | +17
   neutrals: +33 | +11 | -19 | 0
   blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | -15

6. We're almost done with this coloring: the following two steps are the perfect ending for our image, and they will give to our tones the final touch for a very colorful view. Let's take the Color Balance tool, and let's add a little pink.
   midtones: -15 | +11 | 0
   shadows: -7 | -8 | -7
   lights: 0 | 0 | +21
set this layer to 48% (opacity)

7. The last step, guys. Pay attention 'cause this is really really important: let's go back to the beginning, and let's take a look to the outcome, it's the second image I posted before the tutorial. If you look carefully you can see that some parts get a little pixelated, and that's because of the image quality: we can fix that with a gradient, which will soften some of these imperfections. If they're still visible, you can simply try to blur them with the respective tool.
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
set this layer to Exclusion > 75%

And you're done!
WARNING: OKAY, THAT'S REALLY ANNOYING! Why do people keep downloading my resources without even leaving a reply? I'm, not asking too much, just a comment to let me know that you're downloading my resources! I don't mind if you're a thief, as long as I'm thinking about protecting my files AGAIN! And the next time will be the last! There will be no more free download links on my journal: textures, psds and resources will be protected! You get nothing for nothing, right? Well, you definetely won't. I'm tired of seeing tens of downloads and only a few comments on my journal. I'm asking for some fucking money or what?
Here's the link for this .psd.
I hope you'll really enjoy this, since it will be the last for everyone: from now on, I'll take several measures.

coyote ugly.

2011-12-13T13:19:57Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my megaupload account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

{ created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Today we will see how to create some yellow and pink colors, underneath a light gray lightning, from a medium dark screenshot. I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.

So the tutorial will show how to transform the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. All right, here we are! Our screenshot is perfect for any type of coloring, since it's not so dark, and it's not so light too. We're going to have some fun with this! Anyway, duplicate your base, as always, and set it to Screen. Duplicate your screened layer again, and that's it! We have the perfect base for our coloring! Yay!

3. What will be our next step? Well, as I just said, this will be the perfect screenshot for any type of coloring, so we can torture it a little more. This is very important: do you want bright colors? Illuminate your base, then! We're going to give a new, briiiight lightning to our screenshot, okay? So let's take our Exposure tool.
   Layers > New adjustment layer > Exposure
+0,43 | +0,0646 | 1,00
ew, this is sooo bright! Lightning replaced all of the colors! Don't you remember what I always say? Our tones are still there, they're just covered by this layer: we're gonna bring them back in a minute.

4. Since this exposure took away all of our colors, we can start to think about the main tones that will show up in our coloring. So, what about a pink adjustment, for first? Let's take our Color Balance tool, and set something like this:
   midtones: +11 | -28 | -57
   shadows: +24 | -42 | -36
   lights: -17 | +4 | +15
Woha, we can see just a bright screenshot with one, only, main tone! This pretty sucks, I know. Don't panic, we're about to create a new lightning on that, with a lot of new colors which will be pretty brilliant, too.

5. We're going to create several shadow tones, now, with a gradient.
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
set this layer to Color Burn > 100%
We made it! Do you see those yellow and dark pink (almost brown) colors? These will be the main tones of our coloring :)

6. We just have to brighten our existent colors, since they're all there, waiting for our adjustment. So let's take the Selective Coloring tool and set something like this:
   reds: -100 | +5 | +34 | +21
   yellows: -54 | -22 | +62 | +5
   greens: +96 | +100 | +100 | +14
   magentas: +100 | +36 | -100 | -2
   whites: -100 | 0 | 0 | 0
   neutrals: +43 | +20 | -54 | -4

7. That's great, we have our brilliant colors, now. We're about to be done, but the following two steps will give to the coloring the final touch: what about brighten those tones up again?
   Level > New fill layer > Solid color > #fa6969
set this layer to Soft light > 32% and don't panic, since our image may pixelate a little. We can adjust that with the last step.

8. As I just said, we can adjust our image, which may pixelate with all these bright colors, by adding a final gradient which will render as a soft grey shade. Follow me through this step:
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
set this layer to Luminosity > 40%

And you're done!
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous posts I experimented that it's a very sad thing asking for some comments, so feel free to download this psd (this means that you won't need any password). But if you just follow this tutorial, or if you're downloading the psd could you please, please let me know? It's always frustrating when you know that there's a lot of people appreciating your tribute, but nobody's telling you.
Here is the link for this .psd, anyway: thanks for understanding!

the runaways.

2011-12-03T11:07:30Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my megaupload account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

{ created a psd map page! so you won't get lost anymore // look's what's new, guys :)
Today we will see how to spread light blue, yellow and pink colors from a medium dark screenshot. I used this screenshot from rawr-caps.net.

So the tutorial will show how to transform the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. What do we usually do before working on a picture? Of course, we duplicate the base and we set it to Screen! As I always say, this is the best way to give to the image a new lightning: there's nothing better than a screened base.

3. Time for a photo filter, people :D I usually play with random tools, before I decide which way to take, and I ended up with a good result with this. You only have to select a "Warmer filter (85)" or something, since I'm not sure how translated from italian to english is, here is a useful stamp which shows you which color you have to pick.
   Levels > Adjustments > Photo Filter
This will darken light blue colors a little: we're going to lighten the image up, and it may happen that some parts of it could pixelate.

4. Let's pay attention to the image: we have lighten it up and applied a filter, but some blacks are still gone. We're gonna take them back with one of my favourite tools.
   Layers > New adjustment layer > Exposure
   +0,34 | -0,0294 | 1,26
Exposure is one of the most useful tools in Photoshop, since it gives so much risonance to the image, and it gives a new brightness/contrast to our screenshot too! We have our black colors back, that's great!

5. Now we have to think about a first re-coloring. I thought that a good, acid base would have been perfect for this image, so I took the Color Balance tool, and set:
   midtones: +55 | +22 | -32
   shadows: -15 | +2 | +42
   lights: -32 | -41 | -63
Why did I say "acid"? Well, natural colors are completely gone, now. All I can see is a lot of orange and a little bit of green, but there's no more light blue or pink: you may think that we're ruining the image XD we're not ruining it: we're just preparing a good base for the final transfiguration.

6. This step will give to the image an additional acid tone, so don't be scared :)
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
set this layer to Soft light > 74%
All we can see now, are acid green colors: that's simply perfect. We're about to transform our image in a multi-colored one.

7. We just need another gradient layer, since black tones are still too weak. And what about adding a yellow tone? :)
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
set this layer to Soft light > 39%

8. This is the right moment for a Selective Coloring: we're going to turn all the greens into light blue, pink and yellow tones.
    reds: -69 | 0 | -24 | +11
    yellows: -77 | -25 | -12 | -25
    greens: +27 | +24 | -100 | -18
    cyan: +100 | -41 | -21 | +20
    whites: -100 | 0 | 0 | -18
    neutrals: +3 | +16 | -23 | 0
What the hell happened?? Image tones are completely different! Where did all the greens have gone? That's because of selective coloring's magic :)

9. The last step before we're done. You can ignore this, but I think that this layer gives a lovely tone to our coloring.
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
set this layer to Lighter color > 18%

You made it! :D
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous posts I experimented that it's a very sad thing asking for some comments, so feel free to download this psd (this means that you won't need any password). But if you just follow this tutorial, or if you're downloading the psd could you please, please let me know? It's always frustrating when you know that there's a lot of people appreciating your tribute, but nobody's telling you.
Here is the link for this .psd, anyway: thanks for understanding!

music guide - the best on the net.

2011-11-23T17:28:21Z

Well, I always wanted to do this. I always wanted to share my favourite music with some fellow users, and so here I am, experimenting this new, little enterprise: as the following promotional poster says, this will be a long journey through the best tracks on the net, between several, different type of music.
What's new? From now on, you'll be able to freely download all these tracks, 100% virus free, since I will upload them on my mediafire/megaupload accounts, the same accounts that I use for the resource uploading. If you want, you can leave your suggestions here, or leave a feedback (as always) in which you tell me that you appreciate what I'm posting. I'd love to listen your favourite tracks too! So don't be shy.
Okay, I'm done with the introductions.
Let's have some fun!

Where am I downloading these tracks from?
I found a very useful program, which is called Free Studio Manager (here is the link if you want the english downloadable version) and which is letting me download what I like from Youtube. I haven't enough money for buying music on iTunes, and I'm so sorry for that, but I really can't to that: since my life without music is nothing, and since I always need my mp3 player to be full, here's what I do:
1) search through Youtube for new music
2) download the audio portion with Free Studio Manager
3) enjoy the music

Where do you find these tracks?
I found them, as I said before, on Youtube. I begin with opening a video of a track I already know, and then I start clicking through all of the featured videos on the right column like crazy: I'm telling you, if you'll practise this way, you'll find tons of artists which deserve so much love.
So I do not own the rights to these songs; these tracks are the property of their respective owners.

001
- download link here //
   01. Aerosmith | Falling In Love Is Hard On The Knees
   02. All American Nightmare | What Ya Gonna Do
   03. Bob Sinclar | Rainbow Of Love
   04. Cesare Cremonini | Hello!
   05. Datarock | True Stories
   06. Dexter Freebish | The Other Side
   07. Kanye West | Coldest Winter
   08. Bright Eyes | Lover I Don't Have to Love
   09. The Feelers | One World
   10. R.E.M. | Mine Smell Like Honey
   11. The Icarus Account | Mayday
   12. The Verve | Sonnet
   13. White Lies | Strangers

002
- download link here //
   01. 4 Non Blondes | What's up
   02. AC DC | You Shook Me All Night Long
   03. Hot Chelle Rae | Tonight Tonight
   04. Incubus | Love Hurts (Live @ Rock Am Ring 2008)
   05. Nickelback | This Afternoon
   06. Pearl Jam | Unthought Known
   07. Reeve Carney feat. Bono and The Edge | Rise Above
   08. Seether | Careless Whisper
   09. Social Distortion | California
   10. Soldiers of a Wrong War | Save me
   11. The Cars | Sad Song
   12. The Feelers | Didn't Want To Fall In Love
   13. The Killers | All These Things That I've Done
   14. The Wombats | Jump Into The Fog
   15. These New Puritans | We Want War
   16. Weezer | Buddy Holly
   17. Young the Giant | My Body

003
- download link here //
   01. Alice Cooper | Poison
   02. Anberlin | Closer
   03. Avenged Sevenfold | So Far Away
   04. Biffy Clyro | God and Satan
   05. Cee Lo Green | Fuck you
   06. Chris Rock and Barry White | Basketball Jones
   07. Coldplay | Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall
   08. Epica | Tides of Time
   09. Hole | Someone Else's Bed
   10. Hooverphonic | Anger never dies
   11. Jack Jaselli & TGVF | Could You Be Loved
   12. Jessie J | Who You Are (Boombox Series)
   13. Jet | Shine On
   14. J-Kwon | Tipsy
   15. Kaiser Chiefs | Ruby
   16. Kanye West | Street Lights
   17. Lenny Kravitz | Stand
   18. Puscifer | The Undertaker (Renholder Mix)

more and more to come.
suggests, everyone! :)

psd's map.

2011-11-23T14:01:03Z

Here you can find a complete and always updated list of all my psds.
Notice that for each psd there is a complete tutorial.
Just click on the previews for being redirected to the following pages, or click on the links.
Have fun!

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flu + sore throat.

2011-11-22T10:11:13Z

Hey there, sweeties :)
Despite the flu and this horrible sore throat (I can't speak a word since I don't have my voice anymore!) I brang four brand new packages of textures for you! Some of them are very, very special, since I spent hours on them. Oh, and here's a little question for you, guys! It would be nice if all of the visitors voted, it only takes you a minute!

View Poll: #1797033

Thanks for those who will vote! Now it's time to..
face the textures -- enjoy them!
NOTICE that I re-uploaded all of the links, since megaupload won't let you download anything; from now on I will use my previous mediafire account, I'm so sorry for this.

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

Some of these pngs may need to be refined, I guess some backgrounds are still visible. You can of course customize all of them, depending by what your main work needs. I do not own any of these pngs, I only scanned a random Cosmopolitan (italian, cos I'm italian, lol) magazine and then clipped the images with Photoshop, nothing else. So have fun with them, I hope I made a good work for you; it took me sooo long time to cut them out!

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

A large icon textures package I made with a bunch of my own textures, mixed up together. I just had fun mixing a few textures of
mine between them, 'cause I ended up with a good result.

download them here @ deviantart.com
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

down we fall..

2011-11-17T15:22:36Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my megaupload account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

+2 .psds and tutorials! Christmas has come, guys XD
Today we'll see how to turn a regular screenshot to a shocking colored one, using greens, bright yellows and cyan. I used this screenshot from homeofthenutty's gallery.

So the tutorial will show how to transform the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. If you're not a random user in my journal, you already know what I'm about to do now: yeah, you're right, we have to duplicate the base and set it to Screen! This is not a surprise anymore, and I'll keep repeating that this is the best trick to work on screeshots, which are not usually so bright. In this case, our screenshot turned out just too bright, and since we're going to accentuate black colors (if we won't, the color will be a crap, since it's all about light colors!) let's duplicate the base again, grab it to the top, and set it to Overlay > 44%. We still have our lightning, and we added a little contrast to the image.

3. This could be a good base, but we're still not completely proud of it. Let's see: we have blacks, we have the right contrast, we have good colors.. what is missing? Well, more blacks! What are you saying? Of course, more blacks, yeah! Don't forget that this coloring is going to be very very bright, and colors usually pixalate, and the image will pixelate more if we don't add all of the blacks that we can. So let's take our Color Balance and let's try to get our screenshot darkened.
   midtones: +38 | +21 | -23
   shadows: -37 | -15 | +15
   lights: +20 | +32 | +63

4. You might think that our image just turned out dark again, but it's not like that, since we still have our highlights aaand our, precious, blacks. What we really need to do now is give the main colors to the picture, so let's take our Selective Coloring tool and let's paint a lot of colors which will show up better at the end of our coloring.
   reds: -100 | +20 | +45 | -10
   yellows: -100 | -100 | +100 | +100
   greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | 0
   cyan: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
   blue: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
   magenta: -100 | -100 | +100 | +100
   whites: +16 | -36 | +100 | +81
   neutrals: -14 | 0 | -20 | -21
Yay, we almost used all of the selective coloring tones, and we just made a mess! Ahah, no, that's not true, but we gave a perfect and colorful layer to our image, that's it :) You might think that these are a little flat, but wait until you see our work finished.

5. This step is dedicated to all our cyan and red tones. We love the cyan/blue couple, don't we? Always think first about which colors will match better to your base, and you'll already be at the half of the your work. Take the Selective Coloring tool again, and set something like:
   reds: -100 | -3 | -16 | +100
   yellows: -100 | -46 | -60 | -1
   whites: 0 | 0 | -19 | 0
   neutrals: +26 | -9 | -43 | -4

6. It looks like there's too much blue, don't you think? It's okay that we decided to play with blue colors mainly, but.. there's definetely too much blue, now. And what we need now is a shocking color layer which will mix our previous levels together. Are you ready for that?
   Layer > New fill layer > Solid color > #efb416
and set it to Soft Light, with 52% (opacity). This is a dark yellow. The next following steps will give to the coloring the last touch :)

7. We're about to define our color couple: what we have to do now is take our gradient tool, which is one of my favourite.
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
    set this layer to Color burn > 100%
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
    set this layer to Hard mix > 43%

Fine, you've done!
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous posts I experimented that it's a very sad thing asking for some comments, so feel free to download this psd (this means that you won't need any password). But if you just follow this tutorial, or if you're downloading the psd could you please, please let me know? It's always frustrating when you know that there's a lot of people appreciating your tribute, but nobody's telling you.
Here is the link for this first .psd, anyway: thanks for reading this!

Here we go with the second tutorial :)
Now we'll see how to create a regular and not so colorful yellow/violet coloring. I used this screenshot from homeofthenutty's gallery.

So the tutorial will show how to transform the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. As I said before, we always have to duplicate our base and set it to Screen, but this time we're going to do this twice, since we need a lot of lightning for the final outcome. But we're not done, since we still have to duplicate our base, again, grab it to the top and set this third copy to Overlay > 60%. That's it! There's the lightning that we needed, and all the blacks that we want. Yay!

3. Colors. Yeah. We definetely need some colors. We almost deleted all of them, by duplicating the base so much, so let's take our Selective Coloring tool and set:
   reds: -52 | +8 | +39 | +25
   yellows: -100 | -6 | +43 | 0
   whites: -55 | +1 | +100 | +62
   neutrals: 0 | +5 | 0 | -5
We're almost done with the coloring base for the shocking layers. We're just preparing our image for the next adjustments, but we need the second and last Selective Coloring layer which is, pay attention, just a copy of the previous layer! So duplicate that, and set the opacity to 38%.

4. The violet layer will be the next step. Let's take our Selective Coloring and just try to give to our image a variation: I warn you, this will be very shocking!
   reds: -31 | +4 | -43 | +10
   yellows: +100 | 0 | -35 | +4
   whites: 0 | -68 | -24 | +70
   neutrals: 0 | +7 | -21 | +14
Don't be afraid, we're going to fix this now.

5. Let's take our Color Balance. The image need some risonance and more blacks.
   midtones: +8 | +22 | -2
   shadows: -16 | +35 | +35
   lights: +34 | +28 | +11

6. This step is optional, and you can feel free to ignore it: this will give to the image that little, dark cyan fader, and will attenuate all the blacks into an almost gray layer. I prefer the coloring without this step, indeed, but I used it into the preview image. Anyway, just follow me:
   Layer > New fill layer > Solid color > #10eae2
and set this layer to Pin Light > 13% (opacity)

7. The last step and we're finished :) this will be dedicated to the final gradient, which will give to our image all of the yellow that can you see on the outcome.
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
    set this layer to Linear burn > 66%

You made it!
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous posts I experimented that it's a very sad thing asking for some comments, so feel free to download this psd (this means that you won't need any password). But if you just follow this tutorial, or if you're downloading the psd could you please, please let me know? It's always frustrating when you know that there's a lot of people appreciating your tribute, but nobody's telling you.
Here is the link for this .psd, anyway: thanks for understanding!

cold light..

2011-11-13T10:08:24Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my megaupload account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

Today we'll see how to add some pink and a little bit yellow lightning to a regular picture. I used this screenshot from homeofnutty's gallery.

So the tutorial will show how to transform the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. Let's duplicate our base once, and let's set it to Screen, as usual. I'll keep repeating that this is the best way to prepare our image to be abused a little. Once you did this, duplicate the base twice, and set the copies (from the bottom to the top) this way:
    Screen > 76% (opacity)
    Soft light > 30%
Here is a stamp to show you the correct order of the layers.

3. Selective coloring, guys! Our image definetely need to be revitalized, or red colors need that, better. Set something like this:
    reds: -100 | -21 | -7 | +33
    yellows: +100 | +35 | -13 | +8
    whites: -31 | 0 | +100 | -7
    neutrals: +5 | +2 | -10 | 0
    blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +25

4. There's still too much pink, and we would love to see some yellow on it, don't you think. The next following two steps will get yellow colors stronger, so let's take our Hue/Saturation tool and set:
    0 | +15 | 0

5. Another yellow adding step. Level > New fill layer > Solid color > #dfbf0d.
    This is a simple dark yellow. Set the level to Overlay > 10%.
    Add another solid color layer, with this color: #b89a72. Set the level to Pin light > 37%. This will soften our coloring, since we're about to give a huge shocking re-coloring to our image. And we added a nice red lightning too!

6. I was talking about a shocking re-coloring: well, that's the right moment for that! Let's take a first gradient.
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (I hope it's the correct translation in english; if it's not, let me know!)
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
   set this layer to Overlay > 52%
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
   set this layer to Luminosity > 38%
What we just did, was giving a perfect base for the following step, in which all of the colors (or the most, anyway) will be remixed together in a new, brilliant, purple coloring.

7. We just have to take our Selective Coloring tool!
    reds: -82 | 0 | 0 | +62
    yellows: -100 | -16 | +10 | -1
    greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
    whites: +100 | -40 | -100 | -69
    neutrals: -15 | 0 | -49 | 0

8. The last step, guys! This will give to the coloring a nice white fader, and will attenuate the previous step.
    Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (I hope it's the correct translation in english; if it's not, let me know!)
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
    set this layer to Luminosity > 34%

And you're done!
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous post I experimented that it's a very sad thing asking for some comments, so feel free to download this psd (this means that you won't need any password). But if you just follow this tutorial, or if you're downloading the psd could you please, please let me know? It's always frustrating when you know that there's a lot of people appreciating your tribute, but nobody's telling you.
Here is the link for the .psd, anyway: thanks for reading this!

here we go with tumblr.

2011-11-04T07:26:07Z

Just wanted you to know that I joined tumblr! I would be glad if you add me <3 I feel so lonely, there X'D
Here we go with some new textures :) remember to let me know if you're downloading them, please!
enjoy them!

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ mediafire.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

remember to leave a reply if you're downloading somethin :) thanks for understanding.

01 gossip girl coloring

2011-10-29T20:29:13Z

Hey there, and welcome back to my new graphic enterprise!
Since I love spending my spare time hanging out with Photoshop's colors and stuff like that (and since I love editing photos too) I decided to begin this new adventure, hoping that someone will find this helpful. I will post here some coloring tutorials, and of course I will post for each
tutorial a .psd file which can be downloaded 24h/24 from my megaupload account.
All I'm asking for, please, are credits (a linkback to my journal in your resource list will make my day!) and of course comments.I really love
comments, and I read all of them, even if I can't answer to you all. Anyway, the main rule will be: no one of these tutorials will ever end up with a good result with all of the images in the world! The point is that you can try to apply some of these psd files to an image that is completely different from the image I've used,but it may happen that the coloring doesn't match with those different colors.
All right then. Let's create something colorful and let's begin with the tutoooriaaal :D

Today we'll see how to spread tons and tons of colours from a dark picture. I used this screenshot from killcolor's journal.

So the tutorial will show how to transform the screenshot from this:

to this:

1. Let's open our base in Photoshop (File > Open)

2. Since our image it's not that dark (I mean, there are lots of darker images on the web!) we must think about a first re-lightning. We want our picture to create tons of colors, don't we? So let's duplicate it twice, and set both copies to Screen. It seems so much lightened, now, but it seems that we lost all the colors too, isn't it? Well, in the next step we're goin to bring them back.

3. Let's take our Selective Coloring tool, and let's just make a mess with the colors. This picture deserves more than what we can think! We're going to give a first coloring base, which will be very important for the entire coloring, since we're gonna exagerate those colors too. Are you ready? Well, set something like:
   reds: -100 | 0 | +56 | +29
   yellows: -100 | +21 | +35 | -19
   greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
   cyan: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
   blue: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
   magenta: -100 | -100 | +100 | +44
   whites: +30 | -32 | +33 | +100
   neutrals: -9 | -7 | -14 | -2
Whoa, we made it! Can you see the difference? Those light colors will be the perfect base for our shocking coloring!

4. All of those colors darkened the picture a little, and this is what we needed. But we're going to give to the image a little contrast too, so colors will be more brilliant: let's do this by duplicating again our base, and grabbing it to the top. Set it to Luminosity > 27%
Why did we do that? Well, I don't really know XD I mean.. I usually repeat this step for almost all of the psds I create (you wil realize that in the following tutorials) since Luminosity, in our palette levels (or how do you call it in english e_e) gives so much risonance to the image, when used! This doesn't work on every picture, but when it does, the outcome will be sooo much better.
Anyway, did you remember what I said about the contrast? Let's take our Brightness/Contrast tool, and set:
   +18 | +22

5. We love our image colors a lot, but it's like there are too much yellows, or oranges (it's always this annoying orange's fault ò.ò) so we're gonna give a few cyan and blue tones. Let's take our Color Balance and set:
   midtones: 0 | +15 | +43
   shadows: -32 | -3 | -18
   lights: +5 | -7 | +31

6. Aaaargh! Where did all of those warm colors gone?? Well, don't panic, they're still there! Remember that Photoshop works with layers, and that all of our pictures always hide a lot of colors, even if we can't notice them! What we're going to do now will be another shocking step: we'll accentuate cyan tones, using our Selective coloring tool again, with a view to the final outcome. We definetely need to "delete" warm colors now, since the following two steps will call back them in an exagerate way.
In the meantime, let's think about our Selective coloring, as I already said:
   reds: 0 | +8 | +9 | 0
   yellows: -100 | -33 | +33 | -26
   greens: +100 | -100 | -100 | +100
   cyan: +100 | -42 | -100 | +100
   blue: +100 | -59 | -100 | +100
   magenta: -100 | -100 | +100 | +100
   whites: +100 | -37 | +45 | +10
   neutrals: -15 | +4 | -32 | 0
   blacks: 0 | 0 | +100 | 0

7. The last two steps, guys :) and since they're almost identical, I'm explaining them together. If you're working with this screenshot (Blair's and Serena's) you already noticed that warm colors are completely gone. But as I said before, this won't compromise our outcome! With the gradients tool's assistance, we're bringing them back in a second :)
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (I hope it's the correct translation in english; if it's not, let me know!)
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
   set it to Color Burn > 100%
   Layer > New fill layer > Gradient (again)
   set it to Color Burn > 28%
this is a stamp of mine to see how exactly you have to set your options (it's in italian, but still pretty understable)
I used the same color for both layers; the first just has an angle of 90°, and the second has an angle of -90°.

We finally made it! Yay!
WARNING: I'm telling you that I'm not gonna protect my files anymore. In the previous post I experimented that it's a very sad thing asking for some comments, so feel free to download this psd (this means that you won't need any password). But if you just follow this tutorial, or if you're downloading the psd could you please, please let me know? It's always frustrating when you know that there's a lot of people appreciating your tribute, but nobody's telling you.
Here is the link for the .psd, anyway: thanks for reading this!

01 lotr coloring

2011-10-23T11:34:44Z

University life.

2011-10-14T10:48:32Z

Hello theeere ^.^
I'm finally back, with a new package of large textures for you! *yayyys from the crowd*
I have just finished studying a few pages of Business, so I haven't much to do, now. I thought that it was the right time to post some resources for you, so.. here I am! Oh, and something finally happened, yesterday! Do you remember my graphics community, buddys0urce? Well, someone posted a resource link in there! Cheers for me, ppl :D lol.
Anyway, remember that you can always become a member and post everything you worked on, from icons to resources.
WARNING: from now on I'm posting my resources on Megaupload site, since Mediafire won't let me upload anything.
Time for textures, now -- enjoy them :)

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3

download them here @ deviantart.com! (remember to credit me, please!)
thanks for using them :3