Coloring tutorial
Made in Photoshop CS2, but super translatable! Can you believe it?
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Step 1: Crop your image and sharpen to your liking. Then duplicate base twice. Set the first to screen and second to soft light (both 100%).
Step 2: New layer, fill color #00aeff to soft light 100%.
Step 3: New layer, fill color #ff0018 to Luminosity (legacy) 100%.
Step 4: Don't freak out, duplicate base, bring to the top and set at softlight 100%.
Step 5: Copy this texture (not sure who made it) on top of everything, and set to Overlay 60% (play with the opacity if you think it's too light/dark).
And you are done, kids!
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Go from
to
Step 1: Crop your image and sharpen to your liking. Then duplicate base twice. Set the first to screen and second to soft light (both 100%).
Step 2: New layer, fill color #00aeff to soft light 100%.
Step 3: New layer, fill color #ff0018 to Luminosity (legacy) 100%.
Step 4: Don't freak out, duplicate base, bring to the top and set at softlight 100%.
Step 5: Copy this texture (not sure who made it) on top of everything, and set to Overlay 60% (play with the opacity if you think it's too light/dark).
And you are done, kids!
More examples: