Tutorial #14 > Carmine Giovinazzo
Made with Adobe Photoshop CS3. Not translatable.
Level: Hard. Uses selective coloring and color balance.
Requested by dine7184.
Please do not claim this as your own.
As always, please remember that tutorials are just guides. You may need to adjust the coloring or brightness depending on the image you have chosen.
1. Crop your image to 100x100 px. (For an easy way to do this, check out this tutorial.)
2. Duplicate your base and set to screen 70.
3. Go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen
4. Layer > new adjustment layer > hue/saturation. Set master saturation to +20.
5. Layer > new adjustment layer > selective color.
REDS
Cyan: -50
Magenta: -20
Yellow: 10
Black: -20
YELLOWS
Cyan: -60
Magenta: 0
Yellow: -20
Black: -10
WHITES
Cyan: 50
Magenta: -30
Yellow: 20
Black: 0
NEUTRALS
Cyan: 10
Magenta: 4
Yellow: 5
Black: -4
6. Layer > new adjustment layer > selective color.
REDS
Cyan: -20
YELLOWS
Cyan: -40
NEUTRALS
Cyan: 10
7. Layer > new adjustment layer > selective color.
REDS
Cyan: -22
Magenta: 0
Yellow: 0
Black: 10
YELLOWS
Cyan: 20
Magenta: 0
Yellow: 0
Black: -20
GREENS
Black: 70
CYANS
Cyan: 30
Magenta: 0
Yellow: 0
Black: 20
BLUES
Cyan: 40
Magenta: 0
Yellow: 0
Black: 20
WHITES
Cyan: 20
Magenta: 0
Yellow: 11
Black: 10
BLACKS
Cyan: 20
Magenta: 10
Yellow: 11
Black: 10
8. Layer > new adjustment layer > hue/saturation.
REDS
Saturation: 10
YELLOWS
Saturation: 20
GREENS
Saturation: 30
CYANS
Saturation: 20
BLUES
Saturation: 20
9. Layer > new adjustment layer > color balance.
Midtones: -60, -30, -15
Make sure that preserve luminosity is checked.
10. Make a new layer. Fill it with
(#faf733). Set it to multiply 100.
11. Make a new layer. Fill it with
(#ecfbf9). Set it to color burn 100.
12. Make a new layer. Fill it with
(#020215). Set it to exclusion 100.
Voila! You're finished! Let me know what you think, and I'd love to see results if you try it.
For some other great tutorials (some by me, most by other people), check out my tutorial list.