Allsizes, its a little bigger
I’ve been getting a lot of requests to do tutorials on the colorings I do. Now, I can’t do tutorials on EVERY coloring I do because that would take forever, and I don’t even remember how I do half of them because honestly, I just mess around until I like it haha. But I’ve finally made two coloring tutorials for you all, thanks for being so patient with me since I’ve been promising these since forever.
Before I start I apologize for my explaining-skills, they’re not that good hah. And on top of that, English isn’t my first language as you might know..so be easy on me. I’m gonna explain it from scratch, so yes, in the beginning its like photoshop-for-dummies. (No offense if you’re having trouble with them)
Also, colorings turn out different on each photo. So if these look weird on the photo you chose, you probably did nothing wrong..its just the photo.
These tutorials are made in Photoshop CS4, but usable for any version of Photoshop. Okay, enough talking. Lets get to business.
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COLORING ONE
STEP 1.
First, open Photoshop (omgosh, I know.. take a breath!). Now open a new blank file (FILE >NEW), I made mine size 450×600.. but this is up to you.
So, this is what you should have right now :
Now place your photo want to use (FILE > PLACE) and make it the size you want. Your screen should be like this now :
This is optional, but usually I sharpen the photos because they are quite blurry. And even if they’re not, sharpening just adds something to them.
So, go to FILTER > SHARPEN > SHARPEN
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STEP 2.
The picture I chose is quite dark, so I’m gonna lighten it a bit. I’m gonna do this with CURVES.
This is where you find this option :
Once you click this, you will get this on your screen :
Now, just randomly drag the line to a direction. When you do this you will be able to change the numbers that say INPUT and OUTPUT :
These are the settings I used :
INPUT 209, OUTPUT 227
If your photo is still too dark (or bright) play around with these a little.
This is what I have now :
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STEP 3.
Now were gonna do apply a SOLID COLOR, this can be found here :
After clicking this a screen will appear with a color dock on it. In the lower corner there is a little section where you can add the code to a color you want to use :
This is the code you’ll need to paste in there to get the color were gonna use : c7c67c .. which is green-ish. Now you can’t see your image. Not good. Were gonna put the solid color on SOFT LIGHT so we can see it again :
It looks pretty nasty now, but this is what mine looks like :
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STEP 4.
Okay so we need to get rid of this green slime look. Its not the KCA’s now is it? Now were gonna apply a SELECTIVE COLORING , this is where you can find it :
Now, this little screen with swatches will pop up :
Where it says REDS, you are able to choose which colors in the photo you want to accentuate or fade. In this first selective coloring were only adjusting the
REDS, CYANS and BLUES. These are the settings I used :
REDS
-100
+59
0
0
CYANS
+89
0
-100
0
BLUES
+100
0
-100
0
Not much difference, but this is what I have now :
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STEP 5.
Final step! Are you still holding on? So, were gonna do another selective coloring now. This time were only going to adjust the REDS, NEUTRALS and BLACKS
REDS
-100
+71
+100
0
NEUTRALS
+70
-12
-56
0
BLACKS
0
0
0
+100
If the blues are still to dominant, make another selective coloring and repeat what you did on the BLACKS on this one.
That was it! Please tell me if you’re having trouble. And I’d love to see your resuslts! This is my result :
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COLORING TWO
First repeat STEP 1 & 2 of coloring one 🙂
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STEP 3
The first thing we need to do is to make a HUE/SATURATION layer. This is where you can find it :
Now this little dock will appear, with three swatches on it :
The settings I used are :
HUE : -59
SATURATION : -26
LIGHTNESS : 0
Don’t panic, I know.. the picture looks pretty weird now. I made Demi look like Barney, as in the dinosaur :
Obviously we don’t want it to stay like this, so were gonna put the layer on SOFT LIGHT :
A lot better huh?
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STEP 4
Next thing we need to do, is to make a COLOR BALANCE :
Another small dock will appear, put the first swatch on +19 :
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STEP 5
Now its time for a CHANNEL MIXER :
A small dock will appear, with three swatches. The first one will already be set to +100, change this to +94 :
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STEP 6
Now a step thats a little more difficult, but I’ll try to get you through. Embrace yourselves. Were gonna do a CURVES layer :
The same dock as in the previous tutorial will appear. The little bar at the top that says RGB can also be set to Red, Green and Blue.
We will only change the settings for the RGB, Red and Blue.
First the RBG. If you did the previous tutorial too, you now know that you will first have to randomly drag the line to a direction so you’ll be able to change the settings in the INPUT and OUTPUT boxes.
But the difference this time is that we have to make two points instead of one, so after putting in the settings for the first point you randomly drag another part of the line to fill in the settings for the other point.
The settings for RBG POINT 1 are:
INPUT : 157
OUTPUT : 144
POINT 2,
INPUT : 209
OUTPUT : 205
Now the reds, which only has one point :
INPUT : 170
OUTPUT : 176
And as last, the blues. Which has two points :
POINT 1,
INPUT : 30
OUTPUT : 32
POINT 2,
INPUT : 233
OUTPUT : 235
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STEP 7
You’re still holding on? Okay good. This step is easy, its a SOLID COLOR layer :
The color you need to fill it with is called : 150a05 :
Set this layer to DIFFERENCE and bring the opacity down to 50% :
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STEP 8
The final step! Its a BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST layer :
The settings I used :
BRIGNTNESS : -6
CONTRAST : +22
And were done! My result :
Now remember, it works differently on every photo. Show me your results! 🙂
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Posted by @daaaaniella on 2010-04-05 19:01:00
Tagged: , demi , lovato , colorization , colorings , photoshop , tutorials , graphics
