Soft and glowing effect using gradients

[firstillusion]

Program(s)+version: Photoshop CS4 (for Mac)
Involves: Blending modes, gradients, curves, brightness/contrast, selective colouring, vibrance
Translatable: Partly.
Steps: 12
Difficulty: Medium, because I'm going to assume you already know your way around most of your programme.

Both ohgollygeedamn and likealight asked me about this colouring at the Ask the Maker Meme 2.0,

Comments

[taxcha]

this is very pretty, thank you for the awesome tutorial!

[firstillusion]

Thanks and you're very welcome!

[blencathra]

This is a pretty colouring. Meming to try later. :-)

[firstillusion]

Thank you, hope you'll like it when you try it! :)

[hauntes]

Wow, I LOVE this coloring on her. Thanks so much for sharing.

[firstillusion]

Thank you! And you're very welcome. :)

[masquerain]

Thank you! I really love gradients; it's beautiful to see them used in such a flattering way. Super helpful tutorial. :D

[firstillusion]

You are very welcome. I love gradients as well. It took me some time to figure out how to use them properly, so thank you for the lovely comment.

[songsintheend]

I was always iffy about using gradients and this helped me a lot, thank you so much!

[firstillusion]

I find that working with a black and white gradient is easier than with coloured ones, because you can really focus on lighting. So thanks so much, I'm really glad it helped. :)