help to get this colouring

[huddy4chris]

hello guys.

so, I came across this wonderfully coloured gif on tumblr:

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[sidhex3]

2 things...first, per the comm rules, all animations must be placed under a lj-cut. second, please don't hotlink images. upload them to your own space and link from there.

thx,
*mod sid

[huddy4chris]

so sorry! I edited the post, hopefully now it's done right. If I made more mistakes, let me know.

[sidhex3]

no worries...looks fine now. :)

[sashimitales]

My approach would be to play mostly with the Color Balance and Selective Coloring adjustment layers.

For Color Balance:
midtones -> increase red, increase blue (basically to take away the green overtones from the image without turning it too magenta)
highlights -> increase yellow (as you can see in the gif, the lighter shades are mostly yellow)
shadows -> increase blue, cyan, magenta (again, the colors you see in the gif)

For Selective Coloring, you'd have to play around with the Neutral and Black colors. Neutral picks out the greenish-gray hues of their jackets so you can use it to turn them bluer. Black picks out the shadows, which you can turn also turn blue.

I tried it out but linking the psd here but it gets marked as spam. xD Good luck! Hope this helped.

[huddy4chris]

Thank you! I will try it and let you know ;)

ΕDIT: So, it got pretty close to the final result, I just seem to be missing some colour distinguisher or brightness in order to see some details, like the colour difference between the guy's scarf and his jacket (in the cap it's not so obvious whereas in the gif you can see the different colours clearly). Any suggestions? :)

[sashimitales]

Try introducing Curves before the Color Balance/Selective Color layers to jack up the contrast, and/or a Vibrance (+100 Vibrance, 0 Saturation) layer to make the colors pop out. :)

[huddy4chris]

yup that worked perfectly!! THANK YOU so much! (now if only I could get it in SV too, I'd be a happy, little girl! haha!)