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 .
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:
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:
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Jenny if u make an action of color blending collection,...I bet u that everyone wish to download ur action & also i can share my actions with u if u don,t mind
lol...i dont really believe in it but it sound pleased to my ears :P...thank u ;). Pls inform me when u have new works, not on Facebook as its been blocked in Vietnam and i've been hard to get access it
thank you dear! it means a lot to me ;). This time i've been very busy with new projects so i dont know when i can write a tut for here :(, but i will try
i dont know why its blocked here, i think there are many reasons, politics, society...etc...but however, i hate it . . i've been searching a way to get access FB and i hope i can do it soon...and i will visit your page if i can do it...keep doing good works!
I don't know what "New Selective Color Layer" is. I have Selective Color Layer in Photoshop CS5, but it doesn't have RED, CYAN, WHITE, NEUTRAL, OR BLACK.