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Tutorial #46

Blue Coloring

Made in PSPX

Going from this: to this:

Requested by

lover_of_narnia.

I started out with a cap from Home of the Nutty, resized, and cropped it.

Duplicate your base four times. Set the bottom one to screen 100% opacity.

Set the next one to screen 100% opacity. (If your image is too bright, then skip this step)

Set the next one to soft light 100% opacity, and apply the high pass filter with a radius of 10.

Set the third to soft light 100% opacity. Add a layer mask to the regular soft light layer. Then copy the base. Go to the mask (making sure that the mask layer is still selected) and right click on the image. Go to paste>paste into selection. Now the base is pasted into your mask. (For Photoshop CS, go to this tutorial for working with layer masks)

Add a new layer of 2a1409, and set it to difference 100% opacity. This layer will take the reddish coloring away and give the image a cooler feel.

Now add a channel mixer layer with these settings: red input channel: red: 120, green: -40, blue: 10; green input channel: red: -10, green: 50; blue: 70; blue input channel: red: -40, green: 50, blue: 100.

Duplicate the channel mixer layer, and set it to screen 100% opacity. Paste the base into the mask. Now invert the layer mask (ctrl + K).

Add a layer of ffffff, and set it to soft light 100% opacity.

Add a new layer of 2a1409, and set it to screen 100% opacity.

Duplicate the previous layer, and set it to soft light 25% opacity.

Duplicate the base, and bring it to the top. Set it to multiply 40% opacity.

Add a new layer of 404040, and set it to lighten 100% opacity.

Add this texture from

blame/

unreal at

kyoshitsu, and set it to screen 40% opacity.

Add a brightness/contrast layer, and input these settings: brightness: -20, contrast: 20.

Add this texture from

elea24 at