Working with dark caps
Requested by
contend
We're going from
to:
· Open your base, in my case it is a very dark Samantha who screencap.
For this kind of images I usually duplicate my base ONE time, and set that to screen; for this cap I had two made
3 screen duplicates. You choose what works best on your image, sometimes you need none.
Another way of making your image brighter is using a Brightness/contrast adjustment layer, or
make a Curves layer, without entering any settings, and set it to Screen.
· Create a new selective Colour layer and add the following settings:
Reds: -100, 0, +100, 0
Yellows: +100, 0, +9, 0
Neutrals: +12, 0, -11, 0
· Second Selective Colour Layer:
Reds: -11,0, -6, +15
Yellows: 0, 0, 0, -100
Neutrals: -6, +5, +11, 0
· Color Balance Layer:
Midtones: -23, -9, -24
Highlights: -12, -2, -14
Shadows: +2, -13, +5
· Third Selective Colour Layer:
Reds: -34, 0, -36, +100
Yellows: -100, 0, -8, 0
Neutrals: -8, 0, -13, 0
· Now, create a new layer (CTRL + SHIFT + N) and fill it (you can use the paint bucket or ALT + DEL, or simply create a fill layer) with a navy blue colour,
almost black I'd say, and set that layer to Exclusion. I used # 0c2647 , and then lower the opacity to whatever you please, I used 18%
· To give a little contrast to the image, which looks a little grainy.. create a new layer again, and fill it with # ebebeb, set it to Color Burn
· Create a coppy of your flattened image: CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + E ; and open a new 100x100 canvas, resize your image, I resized to 80x80, erase the background if it wasn't
already a plain background. Now, with the 'move tool' drag this layer, the resized one of course, to your base.. on top of all the rest of layers; hide or just delete
the layers below it. [ Personally I didn't like the greens behind Sam, and I thought I'd be better if I erased them. ]
Decorating:
- Add this texture
(If you knew who made it, lemme know)
and set it to multiply, erase the bits covering your subject, if you want.
- to give a little light to my icon, I used a soft round brush with white to create a blob? blub? (I dunno how to spell it :$) of light, I also blurred it with the blur tool, til I got what I wanted :), you can use any color you want really..
- Drag this texture by
vol4itca
press CTRL + T to scale and rotate it (keep down Shift when you scale, so that It won't desfigurate the texture). After all that, set to multiply and erase the parts covering your subject again. This way it looks as if they were growing from her back.
Add this texture
by my dear friend Lily
and we're DONE! :D
ps1: THIS IS JUST A GUIDE! there's no need to follow all the steps exactly as I did!
ps2: PLAY WITH THE SETTINGS! every image is different! don't be afraid of messing things up ;)
Other Examples:
for these ones, I used this texture:
Rules:
Comment please! comments feed my soul
Wanna make a request? :D , go to the request post ;)
Credit is use, and if you take any icon, comment please.
ENJOY
and feel free to join or make any corrections
Soon this comm will be memebers only..
contend
We're going from
to:
· Open your base, in my case it is a very dark Samantha who screencap.
For this kind of images I usually duplicate my base ONE time, and set that to screen; for this cap I had two made
3 screen duplicates. You choose what works best on your image, sometimes you need none.
Another way of making your image brighter is using a Brightness/contrast adjustment layer, or
make a Curves layer, without entering any settings, and set it to Screen.
· Create a new selective Colour layer and add the following settings:
Reds: -100, 0, +100, 0
Yellows: +100, 0, +9, 0
Neutrals: +12, 0, -11, 0
· Second Selective Colour Layer:
Reds: -11,0, -6, +15
Yellows: 0, 0, 0, -100
Neutrals: -6, +5, +11, 0
· Color Balance Layer:
Midtones: -23, -9, -24
Highlights: -12, -2, -14
Shadows: +2, -13, +5
· Third Selective Colour Layer:
Reds: -34, 0, -36, +100
Yellows: -100, 0, -8, 0
Neutrals: -8, 0, -13, 0
· Now, create a new layer (CTRL + SHIFT + N) and fill it (you can use the paint bucket or ALT + DEL, or simply create a fill layer) with a navy blue colour,
almost black I'd say, and set that layer to Exclusion. I used # 0c2647 , and then lower the opacity to whatever you please, I used 18%
· To give a little contrast to the image, which looks a little grainy.. create a new layer again, and fill it with # ebebeb, set it to Color Burn
· Create a coppy of your flattened image: CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + E ; and open a new 100x100 canvas, resize your image, I resized to 80x80, erase the background if it wasn't
already a plain background. Now, with the 'move tool' drag this layer, the resized one of course, to your base.. on top of all the rest of layers; hide or just delete
the layers below it. [ Personally I didn't like the greens behind Sam, and I thought I'd be better if I erased them. ]
Decorating:
- Add this texture
(If you knew who made it, lemme know)
and set it to multiply, erase the bits covering your subject, if you want.
- to give a little light to my icon, I used a soft round brush with white to create a blob? blub? (I dunno how to spell it :$) of light, I also blurred it with the blur tool, til I got what I wanted :), you can use any color you want really..
- Drag this texture by
vol4itca
press CTRL + T to scale and rotate it (keep down Shift when you scale, so that It won't desfigurate the texture). After all that, set to multiply and erase the parts covering your subject again. This way it looks as if they were growing from her back.
Add this texture
by my dear friend Lily
and we're DONE! :D
ps1: THIS IS JUST A GUIDE! there's no need to follow all the steps exactly as I did!
ps2: PLAY WITH THE SETTINGS! every image is different! don't be afraid of messing things up ;)
Other Examples:
for these ones, I used this texture:
Rules:
Comment please! comments feed my soul
Wanna make a request? :D , go to the request post ;)
Credit is use, and if you take any icon, comment please.
ENJOY
and feel free to join or make any corrections
Soon this comm will be memebers only..