Tutorials and Icon help

[Emsan]

^^Something should happen. Do you have Photoshop cs3? Or what version do you have?

Anyway, another way to do it is:

Make a new layer

Click on image>apply image

And then make sure these settings are chosed:

Then click okay. That makes the same thing.

[Barbara]

^ Thank you for that. I'll have to try that one. I have Photoshop CS2.

[Emsan]

Then ctrl+shift+alt+e should work lol. Are you sure you are pressing all the buttons at once? It's important to press ctrl+shift+alt first and hold them down while pressing e. Anyway, you can always do the other way haha

[steff99]

You can either erase or use other techniques.

Here's one good tutorial: http://www.picturecorrect.com/photoshoptip...ding_photos.htm

Thank you so much this has helped a lot

[Barbara]

^ Never mind. I've got it. Thanks anyway.

[chari0t]

I see that it's the big tutorial day today ;)

Ive been looking for a good tutorial to use on Grey's Anatomy screencaps for a while now, and I found this one today

http://community.livejournal.com/carbonatedicons/20103.html

[valli]

This is the one Valli wanted a tutorial for.

Step 1

Take your cap, crop it, duplicate it and set the duplicated one on Screen. Do this twice if the pic is really dark. Marge the duplicated layers with the base (ctrl+e) so your layer 1 is bright enough. I hope you understand what I mean lol.

Step 2

Make a new color fill layer, (layer>new fill layer>solid color). Fill it with the color #582547 and put this layer on exclusion with an opacity of 55%.

Step 3

Duplicate your "base" (layer 1, the one you created when you marged the screen layers) and put it on top of all the other layers. Change the blending mode to Darken 100%.

Step 4

Add a selective coloring layer, (layer>new adjustment layer>selective color). Use these settings:

Reds: -100 | +27 | +35 | 0

Yellows: +100 | 0 | -24 | 0

Whites: 0 | 0 | 0 | -44

Neutrals: 0 | 0 | -6 | 0

Blacks: 0 | 0 | 0 | +23

Step 5

Make a new color balance layer (layer>new adjustment layer>color balance). Use these settings:

Midtones: +23 | +6 | -14

Shadows: -25 | -11 | -15

Highlights: -20 | -10 | +9

Step 6

Make a new color fill layer, (layer>new fill layer>solid color). Fill it with the color #181517 and put it on the blending mode Screen 100%.

Step 7

Duplicate your base again, just like you did in step 3. Bring it to the top of all layers and put it on Multiply with an opacity of 50%.

Step 8

Make a new hue and saturation layer, (layer>new adjustment layer>hue/saturation). Use these settings:

Saturation: +34

Step 9

Make a new color fill layer (layer>new fill layer>solid color). Fill it with the color #312d4f and put it on Exclusion. Change the "fill" to 38%.

Step 10

Make a new brightness/contrast layer, (layer>new adjustment layer>brightness/contrast). Use these settings:

Brightness: +7

Contrast: -7

Step 11

Make a new channel mixer layer, (layer>new adjustment layer>channel mixer). Use these settings:

Red: +90 | +8 | -10 | 0

Green: +12 | +88 | -10 | 0

Blue: +2 | +12 | +88 | 0

Change the "fill" of this layer to 37%.

Step 12

Take THIS TEXTURE and put it on the blending mode Lighten. Then add some text and you are done!

CLICK HERE for the PSD file. It will make it a lot easier haha.

Woot woot, thank you so much Here are my results (I made two. I couldn't help myself )

[Emsan]

^^ Love them Valli!

[Zetti]

This is the tutorial that Emma requested This is what it would look like if you use a really dark image and I have posted another result as to what it would look like with a relative light image.

Tutorial:

1. Prepare your base. I started with this base

2. I duplicated the base once and set it at screen twice

3. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer> Curves and put in these values Output:140 and Input: 118

4. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Selective Colouring> Set it at relative

a. Reds: -36, 15, 32, -9

Yellows: -26, 22, -59,

5. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Selective Colouring> Set it at Relative again

a. Reds: -33, 0, 17, 0

6. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Selective Colouring> Set it at Relative again

a. Reds: -18, 11, 3, 0

Neutrals: 0, 0, 12, 0

7. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Selective Colouring> Set it at Relative again

a. Reds: -39, 0, 1, 0

Yellows: -40, 0, 0, 0

8. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Selective Colouring> Set it at Relative again {Final One}

Reds: -27, 0, 0, 0

Neutrals: 24, -15, -52, 3

9. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation Layer and set saturation to 12 under master and under red set saturation to 10

10. Go to Layer>New Adjustment Layer> Colour Balance Layer:

Midtones: 15, 14, 7

Shadows: -74, 5, -21

Final Result:

And you are done!

Would love to see attempts at it

[Emsan]

^^ Thank you so much Zetti!

Tried it and I love the results.

The first one is with the selective color layers set to the method Absolute and the other one to Relative. Lol I just wanted to see the difference.