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Entry tags:	colouring: colour balance, colouring: selective colouring, program: photoshop, tutorial: colouring

This looks best on pictures with light/white backgrounds =]



Okay, so…

Duplicate your base and screen it so it’s nice and bright. I used 90% opacity.



Make a new layer and fill it with 748EFF. Set this to Multiply %100. Looks weird, but trust me on this XD



Make a new Selective Color layer and make sure the method is set to “Absolute”

REDS
C: -100
M: 0
Y: 100
B: 0

YELLOWS
C: -100
M: 0
Y: 100
B: 0

BLUES
C: -40
M: -31
Y: 100
B: 0

NEUTRALS:
C: -21
M: 0
Y: 31
B: 0



Another new Selective Color layer. This time set to “Relative”

REDS
C: -100
M: 19
Y: 14
B: 0

YELLOWS
C: -100
M: 0
Y: 0
B: 0

NEUTRALS:
C: 29
M: 0
Y: -23
B: 0



Now take this texture: (I'm not sure who made it, let me know if you do XD) and set it to Darken %100. (Or it might look better on Multiply if you use a different texture) Erase what’s covering the face, body, hair etc…



And ANOTHER Selective Color layer (Still set to Relative):

REDS
C: -36
M: 0
Y: 17
B: 0

YELLOWS
C: -83
M: 0
Y: -78
B: 0


NEUTRALS:
C: 30
M: 0
Y: 0
B: 0



Now we do a Color Balance layer =]

Midtones: -84, -3, -2
Shadows: +5, +6, -1
Highlights: +4, -6, +5



Then a Hue/Saturation I upped the Master Saturation on this one by 25.



And finally, a Brightness/Contrast layer. This is what I used for this one:

Brightness +6
Contrast +12



That’s pretty much it ^_^ Hope you like :)

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