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antibiotical2012-04-14 06:27 pm
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TUTORIAL 001
Right, this will be a tutorial for "Laminated Effect" "Shine Effect" "Katy's Favourite Black And White Editing Stuff" and... yeah. Maybe I should call it "Enhancing Black".
Either way, this method can do several things. I personally use it the most for making a bunch of black and white icons look the same. Before we go through the tutorial, I'm going to drop a few hints - the first is to save this as a .pdf. An action won't work, since it requires opening up a texture and pasting it onto the image. I'll enclose a .pdf, but yeah. Remember that. The second tip is how to turn coloured images into black and white ones. If you use this tutorial to edit yours, it'll look weird when they come out in colour. If that's what you want, before we start this tutorial, open your image and do this:
Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Black And White.
Name it whatever you want - I never name my layers. Press okay!
Then you'll come up with a screen, and the image you had open is, well, black and white. That's a preview. Adjust the settings to however you like. I usually either leave them or turn the reds up so that they apear "whiter".
Once you found something you like, press OK!
Now for the start of the tutorial. I'm Going to use four examples at once, since like I said before, this ranges a lot. Today we've got 2PM for "Real", DeSu2 Protag for "Manga", Byakuya for "Anime" and some idiot Homestucks for "Anything Else". For this part I'm leaving them at 150x150, but you should resize to 100x100 because of pasting textures later on.
The first thing is if you have a normal way of colouring? You should do that now. I usually erase around the manga stuff, amp up the contrasts on stuff, etc etc. It's fine if you don't, of course, but if you do? You are free to try it here. I'm not going to since I'm just showing you all this, but yeah.
Next we move on to the next step - a gradient map.
Go to Layers -> New Adjustment Layer -> Gradient Map -> NAMEITWHAEVER.
Pick the Black And White gradient. Make sure you have it set to REVERSE. It's not in the picture, but that is a must.
Alright, that creates a new layer for the Gradient Map. Now you need to set that layer to OVERLAY with an OPACITY of 20%. Kind of uneventful, but it helps in the long run.
Now the fun stuff begins. Take the following texture by misssnoopy25@deviantART and paste it onto your image. Twice.
Then on the first layer you pasted (the one closest to the bottom) change the settings to this:
Overlay, 30%
And on the second, it's this:
Soft Light, 80%.
Nothing special yet, but these were my results:
Next is a Fill Layer.
Layer -> New Fill Layer -> Fill with efefef
Set that layer to Multiply at 50% opacity.
This mostly changes whites into a very light gray. It's a step mainly for manga/b&w.
Next is the biggest one. This is the layer that really changes everything. And by everything, I mean blacks.
Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Color
There'll be a dropdown menu.
Pick "Whites" and input the following: Black -40
Pick "Blacks" and input the following: Black +100
The final step is another pasting one. Take the texture from before:
And paste it on top of every layer so far. Set it to Screen 44%. That's normally what I use, but you are free to lower it even more if you need to.
By messing around with the colours before doing this, you can achieve different results. Normally I just +25 the Saturation. You can achieve stuff like this:
And without it?
DOWNLOAD THE PDF
Either way, this method can do several things. I personally use it the most for making a bunch of black and white icons look the same. Before we go through the tutorial, I'm going to drop a few hints - the first is to save this as a .pdf. An action won't work, since it requires opening up a texture and pasting it onto the image. I'll enclose a .pdf, but yeah. Remember that. The second tip is how to turn coloured images into black and white ones. If you use this tutorial to edit yours, it'll look weird when they come out in colour. If that's what you want, before we start this tutorial, open your image and do this:
Name it whatever you want - I never name my layers. Press okay!
Then you'll come up with a screen, and the image you had open is, well, black and white. That's a preview. Adjust the settings to however you like. I usually either leave them or turn the reds up so that they apear "whiter".
Once you found something you like, press OK!
Now for the start of the tutorial. I'm Going to use four examples at once, since like I said before, this ranges a lot. Today we've got 2PM for "Real", DeSu2 Protag for "Manga", Byakuya for "Anime" and some idiot Homestucks for "Anything Else". For this part I'm leaving them at 150x150, but you should resize to 100x100 because of pasting textures later on.
The first thing is if you have a normal way of colouring? You should do that now. I usually erase around the manga stuff, amp up the contrasts on stuff, etc etc. It's fine if you don't, of course, but if you do? You are free to try it here. I'm not going to since I'm just showing you all this, but yeah.
Next we move on to the next step - a gradient map.
Pick the Black And White gradient. Make sure you have it set to REVERSE. It's not in the picture, but that is a must.
Alright, that creates a new layer for the Gradient Map. Now you need to set that layer to OVERLAY with an OPACITY of 20%. Kind of uneventful, but it helps in the long run.
Now the fun stuff begins. Take the following texture by misssnoopy25@deviantART and paste it onto your image. Twice.
Then on the first layer you pasted (the one closest to the bottom) change the settings to this:
And on the second, it's this:
Nothing special yet, but these were my results:
Next is a Fill Layer.
Set that layer to Multiply at 50% opacity.
This mostly changes whites into a very light gray. It's a step mainly for manga/b&w.
Next is the biggest one. This is the layer that really changes everything. And by everything, I mean blacks.
There'll be a dropdown menu.
Pick "Whites" and input the following: Black -40
Pick "Blacks" and input the following: Black +100
The final step is another pasting one. Take the texture from before:
And paste it on top of every layer so far. Set it to Screen 44%. That's normally what I use, but you are free to lower it even more if you need to.
By messing around with the colours before doing this, you can achieve different results. Normally I just +25 the Saturation. You can achieve stuff like this:
And without it?
DOWNLOAD THE PDF