Baki: Coloring tutorial 03

[teaclovers]

Since peole have been asking, I've made a tutorial for one of my ARIA icons. The results is a nice green/cyan tint.

Program used: Photoshop 7.0
Intermediate knowledge required.
Uses curves and selective coloring. Not translatable.









First take your base and go to Image > Adjustment > Auto Levels Or just hit Shift + Ctrl + L

The next 4 steps come from elthena's tutorial found at hawke_icons



Duplicate the base and set to Soft Light 100%



Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation Set Saturation 36+



Now make a new layer and fill it with #00116A. Set it to Exclusion 100%. Turn this layer off.



Now, go to Select > All and then go to Edit > Copy Merged. Paste this layer on top of your exclusion layer and set it to Soft Light 100%. Turn your Exlucsion layer back on.



Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves

Each Input/Output pair is a NEW "dot".

RGB:
Input: 167
Output: 162

Red:
Input: 191
Output: 160

Input: 126
Output: 80

Green:
Input: 178
Output: 179

Input: 107
Output: 122

Input: 69
Output: 102

Blue:
Input: 170
Output: 167

Input: 105
Output: 97



Then go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Coloring

Reds:
Cyan: +100
Magenta: +100
Yellow: +100
Black: -50

Yellows:
Cyan: +100
Magenta: +39
Yellow: +46
Black: -34

Greens:
Cyan: +100
Magenta: -100
Yellow: +100
Black: +100

Cyans:
Cyan: +100
Magenta: -36
Yellow: +7
Black: +32

Blues:
Cyan: +100
Magenta: +39
Yellow: +100
Black: -20

Neutrals:
Cyan: -22
Magenta: -19
Yellow: -10
Black: +14

You're done! Another example of this coloring:



I'm going to warn you that this only works well with images that have alot of pink and cyanish-green or a dull blue (ARIA images). It looks very horrible with bright blues. Adding pink Soft Light layers will usually do the trick.

Both icons can be found at my ARIA claim <--Shameless plug

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