Color blending collection 3 - 15 January 2011 - Photoshop tutorials, free design resources, writing

10:10 PM Color blending collection 3
The first tutorials for new year! Color blending style is back with the third collection. Its one of my most favorite effects and i hope you will like them too . I. Soft high contrast photo effect: Resource: Model 1. Open your picture and duplicate it. Choose Image-Apply Image: This step is to remove green tone and reduce blue tone of the pic. 2. Create a new Selective color layer: Neutrals: 11, 3, 9, 0 Its to increase light cyan tone. 3. Stamp visible all layers ( Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E). Choose Channel Pallete, Ctrl+A to choose Green channel, Ctrl+C to copy it and press Ctrl+V to paste it into Blue channel. We have: This step is to change color of umbrella to fit background. 4. Stamp visible again. Apply Gassian blur with 4 px then set this layer to Soft light 100. Press Ctrl+U to reduce the red tone on model face: 5. Stamp visible once again. Apply Gassian blur with 4 px and set it to Hard light 20%: ( You can choose Soft light mode, it depends on your fancy or your own picture). 6. New Selective color layer: Reds: 86, -23, 12, 0 Whites: 0, -21, 0, 0 This step is to reduce red tone on model to be suitable for background. 7. In this step we are about to add rain effect to this photo. Its a very easy effect and most of you may know it already. Create a new layer and fill it with black ( Choose Edit-Fill). Apply Add noise filter: Press Ctrl+L to increase contrast and reduce "rain effect" intensity: Apply Motion blur: Set this layer to Screen 100%: Press Ctrl+L to increase brightness: Apply Gassian blur with 0.5 px to soften this effect to make it look more natural. Add layer mask and use soft black brush with 50% opacity, 50% flow to blur the rain effect on some parts of model: Final effect: II. Sweet spring sunshine effect: Resources: Butterfly Model 1. Open the model stock. Create a new Selective color layer: Reds: 19, -13, 14, 0 Yellows: 0, -9, -32, 0 Greens: 100, -82, -100, 0 Neutrals: 4, 0, -4, 0 This step is to increase Green tone also decrease the red tone on model skin and hair. 2. A new Selective color again: Reds: -38, -23, 11, 4 Yellows: -8, -36, -51, 0 Greens: 100, -100, -63, 0 Cyans: 0, 21, 38, 0 Its to increase light yellow tone for skin, hair and cyan tone for background. 3. Create a new Curves layer, click to choose Gray point: With the tool selected, click to pick skin color on model hand: We have the settings for Red, Green, Blue channel and result: Adjust RGB to increase the light: 4. I do a small manip. Choose one from butterfly stock, move it and resize it: Then Choose Image-Adjustment-Selective color to change color of butterfly : Reds: 100, -36, -67, 0 Yellows: 100, -9, -28, -26 Neutrals: 13, 13, 0, 0 Blacks: 20, -14, 12, 0 5. Create a new layer, use hard brush, 2 px and soft brush, 4 , 6, 9 px to draw on the pic, then set outer glow with default settings: 6. New layer with settings: Use dodge and Burn tool to enhance the eyes. Final effect: III. Beautiful night light effect: Resources: Bokeh texture Model 1. Open the image. Create a new Curves layer: Its to increase dark yellow tone of the pic. 2. Create a new Selective color: Reds: -30, 34, 90, 0 Yellows: 4, -26, 16, 20 Greens: 100, -100, 100, 0 Neutrals: 47, 0, 39, 0 Its to add green tone for background. 3. Make a new channel mixer layer: Red: 105, 0, 0 Its to increase a bit of red tone on model face. 4. Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E to merge all layers. Choose Filter-Render-Lighting effect: Duplicate this layer and apply Lighting effect again: Add layer mask to erase hand: 5. Stamp visible all layers. Apply Render-Len Flare: Add layer mask to erase the sun effect on model and the background: 6. Add bokeh texure to main document. Set this layer to Screen 50%, then duplicate it and change mode to Soft light 50%. Add layer mask to erase effect on model, background. Final effect: You can also check my out ther color blending collections: Color blending collection I Color blending collection II
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