Vintage Coloring
Achieve this coloring in Photoshop
Step 1: Pick out your base image, crop, sharpen it, etc.
Duplicate your image and set it to screen at 17% or so.
Step 2: Create a new layer and fill it with #FFD672. Set it to soft light at 59%
Step 3: Create another layer filled with #F3EDD6 and set it to multiply at 62%
Step 4: Make another layer, fill it with D1E4FE and set it to color burn at 89%
Step 5: Create one last layer, fill it with 001627 and set it to exclusion at 44%
Step 6: Make a Brightness/Contrast layer with these settings:
Brightness: -8
Contrast: +12
Step 7: Create another color layer filled with DBF0FF and set it to burn at 100%
Step 8: Create a Hue/Saturation layer. Up the Hue +3 and Saturation +19
Step 9: We're almost there!
Time for some selective coloring.
REDS: -100 / -22 / -1 / 0
YELLOWS: +100 / -72 / -80 / -55
GREENS: +100 / +4 / -100 / +100
CYANS: +100 / -53 / -29 / -59
WHITES: +14 / 0 / -23 / +14
NEUTRALS: +17 / +1 / +2 / -5
Step 10: Create a black and white gradient map
(If you don't know, don't panic! It's simple :)
On your Layers palette, click the black & white circle, hit "gradient map" and select the black & white one)
Set the gradient map to 40% or so.
Step 11: Create a color layer filled with FFE3DB and set it to burn at 100%
Step 12: Last step! Make one last color layer, fill it with DBF8FF and set it to color burn at 58 percent or so.
And you're done! Let me know what you thought of the tutorial. I would love to see your results!
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