Tutorials by Kaitlin

[Kaitlin]

TUTORIALS!
yayyy...
so request a tutorial if you want to,
and make sure to check out the ones i've already posted.
and also psd tutorials are going to be posted soon
so check back for that update.


TUTORIAL#1 (http://www.mymostwanted.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2753322&postcount=2)
TUTORIAL#2 (http://www.mymostwanted.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2764174&postcount=7)
TUTORIAL#3 (http://www.mymostwanted.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2779097&postcount=9)
TUTORIAL#4 (http://www.mymostwanted.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2784146&postcount=14)
more soon...

PSD tutorials:
TUTORIAL#1 (http://www.sendspace.com/file/fzt0et)

[Kaitlin]

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/tutorial1-2.jpg

1. Start off with a base, sharpen it if you need to. (I sharpened mine)
2. Create new color fill layer: color #ffffff, set it to soft light at 49% opacity.
3. Create new color fill layer: color #b9f4b1, set it to darken.
4. Create new selective color layer:

REDS -50, +23, +42, 0
YELLOWS 0, 0, -36, 0
WHITES +15, +66, -15, -23
NEUTRALS +19, +14, +9, +2
BLACKS 0, 0, 0, -17

5. Create new color balance layer:

MIDTONES -9, +5, +7
SHADOWS +9, -3, -9
HIGHLIGHTS 0, 0, 0

6. Create new brightness/contrast layer:

BRIGHTNESS -9
CONTRAST +7

7. Create new photo filter layer, warming filter (85)

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8. You are done unless you want the second avatar (which makes the avatar darker): Create new color fill layer: color #d0d7e1, set it to color burn (lower the opacity if it is too dark or skip this step)

//If you need to see the avatar after a specific step please feel free to ask or if you need me to clarify a step.

[TisMikky]

my result: ( i changed the color in step 3 a bit )

http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu302/michellesgraphix/luckie%20newie%20xD/t1.png >>> http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu302/michellesgraphix/luckie%20newie%20xD/t.png

[tanningbry]

^Nice!
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Can you do something without selective coloring? I use PSE,btw.

[Kaitlin]

my result: ( i changed the color in step 3 a bit )

http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu302/michellesgraphix/luckie%20newie%20xD/t1.png >>> http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu302/michellesgraphix/luckie%20newie%20xD/t.png

Very nice. Yea if the skin is very pale it's better to lower the opacity of the second color fill layer.

^Nice!
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Can you do something without selective coloring? I use PSE,btw.

Yes I can.(:
I have another tutorial to post first though.

[tanningbry]

Okay. Thanks so muchh! <3

[Kaitlin]

Time a selective coloring tutorial... (;
Only two steps. It seemed to work with this photo.
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/tutorial2.jpg

1. Make a new selective color layer:
REDS -70, +22, +80, 0
YELLOWS 95, +38, -30, 0
WHITES +100, +10, +23, -21
NEUTRALS +30, -16, -31, +8
BLACKS 0, 0, 0, +6

2. Make a new selective color layer:
REDS -58, +27, +57, 0
YELLOWS +77, 0, +100, 0
CYANS +100, 0, -100, 0
WHITES +100, +25, +12, +14
NEUTRALS +6, +25, +22, -9
BLACKS 0, 0, 0, -18


don't forget to change it according to the picture you are coloring. (;

[Kaitlin]

If you wanted a tutorial to specific type of coloring or of a coloring to a certain picture,
just let me know or give me the picture and I will do something with it.
if anyone wants to know how to do something in photoshop then ask,
though i'm not really too knowledgeable in photoshop but i will try to help.

[Kaitlin]

^Nice!
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Can you do something without selective coloring? I use PSE,btw.

sorry forgot.... :S
here's a tutorial with just color fill layers!
yes i just kept adding them and subtracting then divided a few.
I will definitely make more w/o selective coloring!
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/564-2.jpg

1. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #230101, set it to Exclusion 100%
2. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #080229, set it to Exclusion 100%
3. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #abebf9, set it to Darken 100%
4. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #abf9b4, set it to Exclusion 24% opacity, 76% fill
5. layer>new>layer, use a white softbrush (#ffffff) and color where your main person or object is and then fill in the rest with a black softbrush (#000000). my layer looks like this (http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/ex.jpg). set it to soft light 43% opacity.


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check back later today and i will post psds to photos like this one (http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/oliviawildecoloring2.jpg).
there will be 10 avatars in one .zip file available for download!

EDIT: I lied. dang computer ate them all. wellup. i will post psd tutorials soon anyway.

[tanningbry]

^Thanks.
I don't know if I have exclusion, so we'll see how this goes...

[Kaitlin]

ha... if you don't that would suck saying as all of them except one has that setting. :P
But if you don't I will still make more tutorials.
I'll just remember no exclusion.
if you have the setting difference though it's almost the same, you'd just have to change the colors a bit.

[TaylorIsLove]

Thanks!!
This helped bunches. :D

[Kaitlin]

Glad it helped. (:

[Kaitlin]

Tutorial #4 is my favorite and I just wanted to share it with you guys.
I've been using this coloring lately so it's obviously amazing. :lol:
ahhh my graphics are going downhill...

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/before.jpg to http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/after-1.jpg

1. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #2a2603, set it to exclusion 100%.

2. layer>new adjustment layer> selective coloring, enter in these settings:
Reds -100, -9, -22, +57
Yellows +38, +24, -78, -9
Cyans +100, 0, -100, 0
Whites +51, +16, +36, +10
Neutrals +20, -16, -20, -3
Blacks 0, 0, 0, +14

3. layer>new adjustment layer> selective coloring, enter in these settings:
Reds -100, +24, +100, +100

** make sure to lower the opacity if the image is too red.

Coloring also used on these icons:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/546666545454545658512322221111.jpg http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/65844.jpg http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/65665.jpg

[tanningbry]

sorry forgot.... :S
here's a tutorial with just color fill layers!
yes i just kept adding them and subtracting then divided a few.
I will definitely make more w/o selective coloring!
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/564-2.jpg

1. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #230101, set it to Exclusion 100%
2. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #080229, set it to Exclusion 100%
3. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #abebf9, set it to Darken 100%
4. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #abf9b4, set it to Exclusion 24% opacity, 76% fill
5. layer>new>layer, use a white softbrush (#ffffff) and color where your main person or object is and then fill in the rest with a black softbrush (#000000). my layer looks like this (http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/ex.jpg). set it to soft light 43% opacity.


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check back later today and i will post psds to photos like this one (http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/oliviawildecoloring2.jpg).
there will be 10 avatars in one .zip file available for download!

Results:
http://i372.photobucket.com/albums/oo168/sunsetluvr123/truefriendsig1.png?t=1245628346
I messed up on the brushes..

[Kaitlin]

hmmm... maybe you don't even need the brushes.
but it looks good to me!
did you set the hardness of the brush to 0%? and you should probably use a bigger brush too. probably a 100+ px.

[tanningbry]

^Um, idk. I think the opacity was 100%. Well, if I did 100 it would be the size of the graphic. lol. I just did what you said and put it over their faces... Was I not supposed to do that??

[Kaitlin]

Well yes but if the brush hardness was not set to 0% then it technically wouldn't be a soft brush and if you went outside their faces it would look weird. :P
But to be honest I don't see anything wrong with your result I was just wondering what you did because it sounded like you didn't like it. :S
Haha, well I will probably make a better tutorial today anyway. :D

[Kaitlin]

just added a PSD tutorial to some new blends I added to the Miley-Cyrus.com gallery (http://www.mymostwanted.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/1703). Enjoy.

[tanningbry]

Well yes but if the brush hardness was not set to 0% then it technically wouldn't be a soft brush and if you went outside their faces it would look weird. :P
But to be honest I don't see anything wrong with your result I was just wondering what you did because it sounded like you didn't like it. :S
Haha, well I will probably make a better tutorial today anyway. :D
Oh, I used a feathered brush..
I kinda like it, kinda not. I mean, yours looks way better than mine. lol.

[Kaitlin]

hahahh,
not really.
maybe the tutorial only works on certain pictures... :P

[tanningbry]

hahahh,
not really.
maybe the tutorial only works on certain pictures... :P
I don't think so...

[meanlilbrooks]

Tutorial #4 is my favorite and I just wanted to share it with you guys.

I've been using this coloring lately so it's obviously amazing. :lol:
ahhh my graphics are going downhill...

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/before.jpg to http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/after-1.jpg

1. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #2a2603, set it to exclusion 100%.

2. layer>new adjustment layer> selective coloring, enter in these settings:
Reds -100, -9, -22, +57
Yellows +38, +24, -78, -9
Cyans +100, 0, -100, 0
Whites +51, +16, +36, +10
Neutrals +20, -16, -20, -3
Blacks 0, 0, 0, +14

3. layer>new adjustment layer> selective coloring, enter in these settings:
Reds -100, +24, +100, +100

** make sure to lower the opacity if the image is too red.

Coloring also used on these icons:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/546666545454545658512322221111.jpg http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/65844.jpg http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/65665.jpg


i wanna do this one but i can't find the selective coloring thing on gimp...
& i don't think mine has exclusion...:S

[Kaitlin]

hmmm... if you want to make stuff with that tutorial you can download the 30 day trial of photoshop.
haha, i'll make more without all the fancy features photoshop has,
so i guess i can try to do a one like that.
just let me know the main features you can use...
and what can you set your layers to?

[meanlilbrooks]

for coloring i can do color balance, hue saturation, colorize, brightness/contrast, levels, and curves.
and i can set my layers to dissolve, multiply, divide, screen, overlay, dodge, burn, hardlight, softlight, grain extract, grain merge, difference, addition, subtract, darken only, lighten only.
i have photoshop elements 6 but it doesn't have the selective coloring either..

[Kaitlin]

mmm, okay. i'll just mess around and see what i can do!
i'm sure i can do a lot with color balance. :P

[meanlilbrooks]

okie dokie (:
thank youuuu!

[Jared Montana]

Oh my gosh. I love your tutorials, girl. These are so gonna be helpful when I re-download Photoshop. Thanks!

[mileycyrus#1fan14]

Tutorial #4 is my favorite and I just wanted to share it with you guys.

I've been using this coloring lately so it's obviously amazing. :lol:
ahhh my graphics are going downhill...

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/before.jpg to http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/after-1.jpg

1. layer>new fill layer>solid color, color #2a2603, set it to exclusion 100%.

2. layer>new adjustment layer> selective coloring, enter in these settings:
Reds -100, -9, -22, +57
Yellows +38, +24, -78, -9
Cyans +100, 0, -100, 0
Whites +51, +16, +36, +10
Neutrals +20, -16, -20, -3
Blacks 0, 0, 0, +14

3. layer>new adjustment layer> selective coloring, enter in these settings:
Reds -100, +24, +100, +100

** make sure to lower the opacity if the image is too red.

Coloring also used on these icons:
http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/546666545454545658512322221111.jpg http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/65844.jpg http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s36/smileysrock/65665.jpg


im gunna try this onee!
i love it<3

[Kaitlin]

haha, okayy.
i hope it works out for you! :o