Tutorial 19 // TRC

[oulan]

This coloring showed up in my last multifandom set and a tutorial for it was requested. Who am I to say no? Especially since it was Amy who asked for it. The coloring is really nice and I hope you're happy. ^^

Written for PSP8, but I'm sure you can figure out the tricks in other programs.

So, we're going from
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1. Choose your image. I used this image of the group from Tsubasa Chronicle because it had a large portion of blue in it and I find this coloring looks best with a lot of red or blue in the original image.

2. Cut and crop. 100 x 100.



3. Duplicate the base. Set the Blend Mode to Overlay, Opacity 100.



4. New raster layer. Flood fill with a medium green (#0B5965). Set the Blend Mode to Exclusion, Opacity 100.




5. New raster layer. Flood fill with a light blue (#BEE9F4). Set the Blend Mode to Burn, Opacity 100.




6. Create a new channel mixer layer (Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Channel Mixer...)

Settings:
Red: 137, -40, -21, 26
Green: 10, 89, 10, -3
Blue: -8, -15, 114, 0
Monochrome unchecked



7. Create a new curves layer (Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Curves...)

Settings:
RGB: 181, 208
Red: 148, 169
Green: 160, 153



8. Duplicate your base. Drag it to the top. Set the Blend Mode to Soft Light, Opacity 50.



9. Create a new hue/saturation/lightness layer (Layers > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation/Lightness...)

Leave Hue and Lightness alone.

Saturation Settings:
Master: 39
Reds: -17
Cyans: -7
Blues: 2
Magentas: 27



10. Add this texture made by reve_lucide (resource here) as a new layer. Set the Blend Mode to Multiply, Opacity 70.




11. Add this texture made by toybirds (resource here) as a new layer. Set the Blend Mode to Screen, Opacity 40.




And there you have it. All the secrets.

Additional Examples:





Originally used here --> Icons

If you try out this tutorial, let me know how it goes.