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Giving Old Song Covers New Life


Below is the song cover I'll be using.

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Open Color Range.

Using the Eyedropper, select the background color.

Hold the Shift key down and select the areas you want to include.

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Below is the areas I have selected.

Use Feather and specify 2

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Open New Adjustment Layer.

Select Color Balance.

Under Midtones max out Red and Green in the positive and Yellow in the negative.

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With Shadows selected set Magenta to -48.

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For Highlights set Cyan to -36; Magenta -2; Yellow -52.

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Select Invert.

Using New Adjustment Layer, select Curves and Group with Previous Layer.

Set anchor points where necessary and adjust.

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Using a paintbrush, I set the Opacity to 45% and Flow to 6%. Added cheek color and lip color plus added a color highlight to the eye area.

Duplicate the picture layer and apply a rich black (CMYK = 50, 50, 50, 100) frame to the picture.

Giving Old Song Covers New Life Tutorial: Final Result



Author's URL: Photoshop-Garden.com
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