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[eddavanheemstra]

Hello everyone! Could anyone help me reach this kind of muted colouring? I'm using Photoshop CS5.

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[dark_x_huntress]

I have such a hard time creating this effect! However, there are some great tutorials that helped me out here:

http://bittergraced.livejournal.com/17403.html

http://aintafairytale.livejournal.com/45768.html

Also, you can check out the Ask the Maker Master Lists. They have awesome tutorials that are so useful (There's 6 Master Posts in all)!

http://icon-talk.livejournal.com/102671.html

[applepips16]

You can get get a grainy effect by using the Add Noise filter.
You jsut need to fiddle around with the slider for a while before you decide how much grain you want on the screencap. :)

[paintedtarget]

I find the best way to get a muted look is to do a black and white gradient map on top of my colouring and then just lower the opacity :)

And for the grainy quality, there's the 'film grain' filter or 'add noise' :)