Some people asked me how i made some blending photos so today i will
show
you the first collection of my color blending tutorials that have many
different effects. Its not
difficult techniques but i hope you still find
them fresh and useful.
1. Romantic purple blue effect:
Stock:
- After opeing your pic, create a selective color layer:
- Create a new Hue/Saturation layer, its to adjust cyan, blue and magentas tone:
- Create a selective color layer again:
This pic is big so click it to see full size:
- Create a new blank layer then choose Radiant gradient:
Set this layer to Soft light 100percents, eraser gently background around the model:
- Now we adjust the color and light on the model legs. Create a new layer,
mode is Hue 100percents, use soft brush , fab4f6 to paint on any area that need to
be fixed.
After it, we still see a dark streak on the thigh. Create a new layer, mode is
Soft light 100percents, still use soft brush fab4f6 painting over there.
- Create a new layer, use white brush 4px, hardness 50percents, set Outer glow to
make fireflies:
Final effect:
2. Lovely light red effect:
Stock:
- After opening your pic, create a new level layer to increase brightness:
- Create two new channel mixer layers:
- Create two new selective color layers:
- Reds: -60, 28,85, -13
Yellows: -100, 50,-51, -41
Whites: 100, 0,0,-25
Neutrals: 6, 0, 0, 0
- Whites: 15, 0, 0, 0
- Create a new photo filter layer:
- Then its a new curves layer:
- New selective color layer again:
Reds: -8, 8, 21, 0
Yellows: 22, -27, 23, -100
Whites: 7, -15, 0, -4
Neutrals: 40, 0, -2, 0
- Create a new Brightness/contrast layer:
Final result:
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3. Beautiful cyan effect:
I once told you some techiques to make cyan tone, you can see in my
previous tutorial, but today you will know another way to do it by
applying CMYK mode.
Stock:
- Duplicate your pic. Change the color mode to CMYK color. Choose
Image-Adjustment-Channel mixer, Yellow channel:
Turn mode to RGB color, we have:
- Create 2 new Selective color layers:
Reds: -21,0,0,0
Cyans: 100,53,-20,13
Blues: 13,-8,20,0
Magentas: -50,13,100,0
Whites: -5,0,67,0
Neutrals: 14,-10,0,0
Blacks: 0,0,0.15
Cyans: 100,0,100,0
Neutrals: -30,0,20,0
Blacks: 0,10,100,100
If your pic has high contrast you should not adjust Blacks channel.
- Create a new Brightness/contrast layer, you can skip this step if your
pic has a good contrast: -2/8
I use soft black brush to eraser the hair.
- Create a new channel mixer, its to make the model's skin look better:
Red: 102,0,5,0
Green: 2,95,5,0
Blue: 0,-5,110,-5
- Create a new layer, set to soft light 50percents, use soft white brush to paint
on the dark area of her left forehead:
Then create a new layer, set to Color 30percents, choose soft brush, color
fdceec to paint on the blueish area of her left shoulder.
Final effect:
