[PS] purple summer, Intermediate // Photoshop only

[Dani]

HOKAY. Another tut from me really?! Yes. Like I said, I am unemployed. Well not technically, since I got a job at Starbucks yesterday, woot! Anyway, I digress. Today, we will be making this baby:


I made it very randomly and it was all just a bunch of experimentation thrown together. And this time, we'll be going step by step. FUN!

What you'll need: hermione, ron, flower 1, flower 2, flower 3,
flower 4, balloons, book, texture, paper texture


STEP 1
Open a blank 700x100 canvas, fill with black. Take flower 1, resize it, set it to the right of your canvas and set it to Pin Light at 100%. Take flower 2, resize it, set it to the right of your canvas as well, and set it to Lighten at 100%. Take flower 3, resize it, set it in the middle of your canvas, and set it to Exclusion at 100%. Take your balloons, resize them a bit, set it just right of center, and set it at Darken at 100%. Take flower 2 again, resize it so it's a bit smaller than the first time, set it to the very left of your canvas, and set it to Lighten at 100%. Take flower 4, resize, move it just right of the balloons, and set it to screen at 100%. Take the book, resize it, move it just left of center, blend it, and set it to lighten at 100%. Take your texture, put it over everything, and set it to Exclusion at about 70%. Finally, take your paper texture, set it over everything, and set it to Color Burn at 100% Of course, you'll need to blend all that together, I use layer masks! Should look a little something like this, don't worry if it's a bit sloppy, we'll cover it!


STEP 2
Then, I copy merged everything and went to Filter->Pixelate->Fragment. I then faded it with Dissolve to around 40%. So then take your main photos, blend them in creatively, and sharpen, blur, etc. however you want. Then I added my two main photos, resized, blended. Experiment! Hokay.

STEP 3-COLORING
New Color Layer-fill with #281b43, set to Lighten at 54%

New Selective Color Layer
Reds- -25,-100,100,0
Yellows- -100,0,0,0
Cyans- 100,0,0,0
Whites- 0,0,-100,0
Neutrals- -15,0,-20,0
Set opacity to 26%

New Selective Color Layer
Reds- -100,0,100,0
Yellows- -100,0,100,0
Cyans- 100,0,0,0
Whites- 0,0,-100,0
Neutrals- 15,0,-40,0
Set opacity to 100%

New Selective Color Layer
Reds- -100,0,100,0
Yellows- -100,-100,100,0
Cyans- 100,0,0,0
Neutrals- -15,0,-11,0
Set to Darken at 100%

New Hue/Saturation Layer
Set master saturation to +10, Red saturation to +10,

New Color Fill Layer
Fill with #4f4f53, set to Hard Light at 54%

New Levels layer
RGB-35,1.38,255
Blue-0,1.06,255
Set to Normal at 54%

New Color Fill Layer
Fill with #25180a, set to Exclusion at 100%

New Hue/Saturation Layer
Set Red Saturation to +4, and Lightness to -4, Yellow Saturation to +4, Lightness to -1, Green Saturation to +12, Blue Saturation to -75
Set to Normal at 78%

New Color Fill Layer
Fill with #3ab011, set to Exclusion at 17%

New Selective Color Layer
Reds- -15,0,35,-3
Yellows- 20,0,-30,2
Whites- -14,0,-7,-16

New Selective Color Layer
Reds- -1,1,91,46
Yellows- 1,6,41,0
Greens- 37,0,0,54
Cyans- -4,0,0,0
Blues- -14,0,71,0
Whites- 97,-6,-7,0

New Selective Color Layer
Greens- 0,28,74,45

New Color Fill Layer
Fill with #c1bcbc, set to Color Burn at 50%

New Hue/Saturation Layer
Master Saturation to +10, Red Saturation to +5, Yellow Saturation to -15

New Color Balance Layer
Midtones- -10,0,12
Highlights- -3,0,2

And that's it for the coloring!

Text-for 'a shadow passed' I used JBStyle, size 23, 20 spacing, and with warped text set to Flag at +27. I also duplicated the text, moved it underneath, gave it a small motion blur, and a small fragment filter, and set it to 84% Opacity. For 'yearning, yearning,' I used Day Roman, size 7, 100 spacing, with a drop shadow and bevel/emboss. I also moved all of the text layers under a few color layers.

DONE! Oh, and I used the same exact coloring for this banner:

This post has been edited by Beautiful Dreamer on Jan 17 2009, 03:05 PM

[Enough4]

-eats-

[Dangerous Liasons]

Those are pretty.IŽll give it a shot.

I loved this tutorial,it was fairly difficult and so much fun.Thank you for making it.

This is what I came up with:


This post has been edited by Dangerous Liasons on Dec 15 2009, 08:34 AM