THANK YOU!! ❤ I’m always very bad in explaining what I’m doing. Cause there is just a lot of trying and painting over it and mashing and mixing colors until I feel it’s good. So I tried to show you. I hope this helps!
“In the dark, I need to taste the blood. Go on, draw another line we can cross this time. Battle scars- Your touch is not enough. I need you to pierce my veins and become my pain
…Do it again
Tie me up and show me what’s real
Hate your love, but love how you feel.”
“Blindfold” – Sleeping Wolf
"We’re tied up in red strings of fate, you and I.“
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I drastically changed my colouring process over last year and atm i’m not using any fixed palettes. I always start with drawing the entire scene in greyscale:
(I find it easier to keep control over volumes, depths and contrast that way)
And now almost entire colouring process is based on adjustement layers.
I put any Gradient Map (set on Soft Light mode and something between 30-60% opacity) adjustement layer on top of it just to start with whatever:
and then i jump to Curves (my fav tool for colouring) – also added as an adjustement layer – and here i have most of the controls i need over each colour channel separately, so i just keep playing with it until i get close to what i like, very often just trying out various settings, I sometimes spend twice as much time on playing with this tool than on making an actual drawing, cos i often have absolutely no idea where i want to end up with colour XD This is how my “let’s try this now” folder for this piclooked like:
ekhm, anyways…
and then i play with it some more, sometimes using Colour Balance or Selective Colour adjustement layers too
(note: i always keep foreground and background on separate layers, or i make separate masks for each, so i can work on these independently if needed)
and voila:
I’m trying to leave a lot of some room for experimenting and accidental effects (trying out various blending modes and opacity settings) cos these can be very fun and surprisingly nice sometimes, but general rule i keep in mind is the contrast (contrast is always good) between colour temperatures. I have the contrast between light and dark already set in greyscale pic, so here it’s mostly about warm vs cool and most often it goes as: cool shadows / warm lights, cool background / warm foreground (or the other way around, but contrast).
i also like having one dominant colour in the pic so very often i grab selective colour tool and pump up that one chosen colour, sometimes even desaturating the rest of the image to push it out even more, but that depends on the pic.
Cheers and thanks! ❤
P.S.: i wanted to say i like using colour red most, but then i took a quick look at my gallery and i seem to like warm yellow / orange a lot too? especially if contrasted with colder blueish shadows.
A redo of an image I did two years ago (which can be seen here) because I was never happy about how it turned out, and someone brought it back into my mentions on instagram. This is what it SHOULD have looked like, a great photoshoot in an old abandoned warehouse and glowing blue eyes.
I present Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides as the deranged, screaming saint I fell in love with while listening to the Set the World on Fire album.
As always, reblog, don’t repost.
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It took me years to figure out how to use Photoshop to make watercolors look good! But fortunately, there’s one little thing that you can do it, without even adding a second layer.
(I have Photoshop CC but this will probably work similarly on others too.)
So here’s what the watercolor scan originally looked like. Blah so grey and gross and the colors are all wrong.
It’s like…okay? But not compared to the original. So I opened up the Camera Raw Filter. It’s the fourth option available on the menu shown below.
Here’s what it looks like after making adjustments on the first screen (image below). Already a huge improvement! I’ve included what my adjustments are so you can see the gist of what I adjust and what I don’t. Each scanner will be a bit different, so use your eye and keep comparing the digital image to the original!
On this stage, don’t worry about the colors being right. If the oranges are less orange than you want, for instance, we’ll fix that in a minute.
So now I went into the HSL/Grayscale menu, to Hue. Here are the adjustments I made with this one!
The Hue menu adjust the tone of each color. So if you want your purples to appear more blue-ish, or your oranges to be more red and less yellow, use the Hue menu!
On the same HSL menu, I clicked the tab for saturation.
This tab basically just makes it more greyscale or more saturated (vibrant) or a color! The adjustments I made are shown below:
And finally click the luminance tab!
This basically lightens or darkens each color. So if you notice the reds on your piece, for instance, are too light–use this to darken them.
Simply press apply and then you’re done! Here are the differences between the original and the edited. The colors are pretty much exactly how they look in person!
So basically, it’s just this:
Scan–> Camera Raw Filter–> Adjust things on the first screen–> Go to HSL tab (fourth one)–> Adjust Hue–> Adjust Saturation–> Adjust Luminance–> Click Okay!
Have fun with this! Feel free to send us an ask, or at us, if you want feedback or have questions! Also, if you notice this adjustment white washes darker skin (it did in this) just go back in with a layer mask or multiply layer!
Chartreuse Abstruseness Export 