Question

[odi210013]

Do any of you guys know how to get bright, vibrant colors that stand out like these?

Similar to: one, two, three

Thank you!

Comments

[freaksoldier]

try messing with layers and soft light / hard light / screen. from my experiences, it works a bit differently for each picture so you just gotta try it out and see what looks the best to you :)

if you need a bit more detailed advice, tell me and i could come up with something.

and i'm sure other members will have useful ideas as well :)

[freaksoldier]

I have tried that before.

But I was wondering how you make like one of the colored really stand out, with out make it to dark. Like, the picture still being detailed..

..i'm not sure if that makes sense, but thanks!

[freaksoldier]

i know what you mean. then you could try this - create a new transparent layer and paint over the part you want to stand out with a brighter color, like for example if you want the red in the pic to be really bright you will use a really bright red, if you know what i mean. and THEN you set the layer to screen. you can try that :)

[cool_spectrum]

Agreed. Using soft light/hard light/overlay/multiply and messing with layers helps.

[lizz_66]

In addition to the answers already given, you can also use the hue/saturation tool to further pop out the colours.

[marijke_rose]

In some cases, a little tweaking of "Contrast" can help, as well.

[luminousdaze]

The Curves Tool is probably what will work best & easiest. And you could also try using gradients or solid color layers set on Soft Light, Hard Light or Overlay as a final touch of color. That's what looks like what might have been done on the third one to add green, blue, yellow etc. to make the individual caps have their own color squares.