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Photoshop CS // Selective Colors* // Difficulty: Medium
*Instead of just giving you the numbers I input for selective colors, I've explained step by step why I've increased this and decreased that. I hope you'll find it useful; it's so much better to learn the WHY behind selective colors rather than just inputting numbers like a drone!
01. Your base (image from SupernaturalCentral)
02. Duplicate your base. Go to Images >> Adjustments >> Variations. For this image, I clicked on lighter once, and more blue once. THIS WILL VARY FOR EVERY IMAGE! Study the base and see what you want to change about it. Is it too dark? Click the lighter option. Too yellow? Increase blues. Too blue? Increase yellows. Mess around and see what works; you can always click on 'Original' in the top left corner to go back to your starting point if you mess up.
Set this adjusted layer to Screen. It was too light, so I decreased the opacity to 40%.
03. Create a new selective color adjustment layer. I want to get my skin tones set. The settings for this image were as follows; the goal being to bring out the yellows, browns and flesh tones in their skin:
REDS (-100, 0, +100, 0)
YELLOWS (-100, 0, +100, 0)
04. Now my skin tones are good, but the icon is way too yellow/green. Create a new selective color adjustment layer. The settings for this image were as follows; the goal being to reduce the greens/yellows without losing too much of the peachy flesh colors:
REDS (-100, 0, +100, 0)
We're gonna be upping the cyans in the neutral section, so I want to get my skin tones exaggerated so I don't lose too much of them when I go into the neutral section.
YELLOWS (+60, -60, -100, +20)
This takes some of the redness out of their faces so they don't look sunburnt, while leaving the yellows of the skintones. It also takes a lot of the bright yellow out of the background; partway to achieving the soft teal we want at the end.
NEUTRALS (+20, 0, -20, -10)
Based on our previous steps, now when we increase the cyan setting in neutrals, we're not losing all of the yellow in our skin. In fact, it gives us room to take down the yellow a bit, softening the background and also bringing the boys skin tone to a more realistic hue. The icon is a little dark so bringing down the black a bit helps, but it also takes it out of Jensen's shirt, so we'll fix that next...
BLACKS (0, 0, 0, +10)
This brings the dark color back to the boy's shirts without making the whole icon darker.
05. This next step is totally based on what the icon's looking like now. I felt like it could use a brightness/contrast lift, so I created a brightness/contrast adjustment layer. I kicked up the brightness +12 and the contrast +6.
06. Now the icon's finished. I added a scratchy texture by
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loveicon and put it on screen to finish it off.Other icons made with this method:
January 30 2007, 00:30:56 UTC 5 years ago
I have a question.
First of all great tutorial.
I will be playing around with it with my next batch.
But, my question is, I love a lot of the textures you used in that batch so if you know from whom you got them I would love to know! For example numbers: 3,7, 27, 32.
:)
January 30 2007, 19:40:07 UTC 5 years ago
#03
Sorry, I couldn't find the green texture.
#07
#27
I believe I made it a bit larger; the original texture had a thin black line down the right side and I wanted to get rid of that. The grey color underneath is just a color layer.
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h-a-n-d-s down.
haha
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Thank you!
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January 30 2007, 18:40:11 UTC 5 years ago
Adding to mems.
xxx
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January 31 2007, 23:55:44 UTC 5 years ago
I had one question, hope you don't mind me asking. In the third icon with the heart; Is that a brush? I've been looking for brushes like that but have found none. Can you tell me where I can get them? If not it's perfectly fine! No worries :)
February 1 2007, 15:39:12 UTC 5 years ago
Hope that helps.
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February 1 2007, 21:48:16 UTC 5 years ago
thanks for the tut.
i been playing around trying to achieve this coloring in PSP and its near impossible. i have PS but i never use it. im lost in there. LOL. anyways, i just came back here today to look at your tut in hopes that its PSP but no. thats all kool thou. i think im gonna try in PS - wish me luck *thanks so much for writing this. ive seen so many PS - selective colorings tuts and this coloring is the most beautiful by far. :)
adding to mems
February 1 2007, 23:04:46 UTC 5 years ago
Re: thanks for the tut.
For me, it's the opposite. I have both but I am so lost in PSP and I exclusively use PS. I'm sorry! I hope you have some luck in PS, or worst case scenario maybe post at i_t and see if someone knows how to translate my tut?5 years ago
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April 27 2008, 10:50:01 UTC 4 years ago
As a newbie PS user, I fiddle a lot but don't always know what I can achieve with certain increases/decreases of colour in selective colouring and such.
I really appreciated this break down. :D *applause*