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NarnianofGryffindor said:
Another tutorial is the painting tutorial. We'll be taking this picture of Anna Popplewell:
annapopplewelltutorial.jpg


And turn it into an old painting:
annapopplewellpaintingcopy.jpg


Step 1:
Open the picture. (I know it's kind of complicated. :rolleyes: lol)

Step 2:
Create a new Adjustment layer, select Solid Color, and use this color #775125. Set it to Lighten.

Step 3:
Duplicate the pic and place it above the Adjustment Layer. Set it to Overlay and use Gaussian Blur on it with a Radius of about 2.5 pixels.

Step 4:
Place this texture above everything else.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg305/NarnianofGryffindor/Textures/paintingcanvastexturecopy.jpg
Desaturate it and set it to Overlay.

Step 5:
Take the same texture and place it above the desaturated one. Set it to Hard Light with an Opacity of 48%

Step 6:
Create a new layer, fill it in with black, set it to Saturation with an opacity of 23%

The blur will give the picture a "painting" look to it, you could also use (if you have Photoshop) the settings under Filter/Artistic. There are several painting looking effects under there.
Again, this will probably only work on certain pictures.
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I love that tutorial, Josh! I made this banner with it...

boleyngirl1.png
 
I love it, Lila!!!!!!

I just found this wonderfully easy tutorial.


We're going from this
Image1-1.png
to this
anna123_png.png


I would say that this tut looks best on pale people. You will get plenty of variations.

Start with your base and prepare it by bluring and sharpening. Then go start a new Raster layer (solid color layer) and put in #2B0924 on Exclusion 100%.

Start another Raster layer and put in #F3EBF3 on Burn (I had to use color burn because I don't have just a 'burn' setting, but it turned out the same) at 100%.

Create a Hue/Saturation layer and set the Reds saturation to +60.

And walla! really coolio coloring! I tried it on some others and got these...

anna12.jpg
anna13.jpg
 
I'm doing this as requested by Daydream Believer. : )

We're going from this
alexisbase.jpg
to this
darkblueeyes.jpg
. I don't know about y'all, but I name all of my tuts so I can keep them all organized, and I call this one the dark blue eyes one. I love this one; it's definately one of my favs.

So start by prepping your base with your sharpen and blur tool. Then copy the base layer and set it to Screen 100%. Copy the base again, bring this copy to the top, and set it to Soft Light.
Now, start a new raster layer and fill it with #C0C0C0 and set it to Color Burn 100%.
Start another raster layer and fill it with #010F2D and set it to Exclusion 100%.
Last raster layer! Fill it with #9BD9F3 and set it to Color Burn 100%.

and WALLA! you're done! easy, huh?
Here's others I did with that tut.
anna30-523.jpg
asdgknkgda-134pibgq.jpg
 
Here's another REALLY EASY tut I thought I should share. =p

We're going from this
Image1-1.png
to this
brightblue.jpg


Prep your base... blah blah blah... and then duplicate your base and set it to Screen 60%.
Add a raster layer with #AEDCFF set to Color Burn 100%.
Add a Levels layer with RGB: .98 and 255
Blue: 1.07 and 255
Now add Hue/Saturation layer and set the Master Saturation to +46, and the Blues to: Hue +11 and Saturation + 30.

And you're done! I'm kinda foggy on the Levels layer =P, but it ends up working out. hehe.
others I've done with it...
anna15.jpg
georgie12.jpg
 
Yeah Nicki, the tutorials you've posted are great!

Here's one I made a minute ago (made for PSP, but should work with PS/Gimp/etc.)

Go from this to this.

1. New layer, fill with #0B2645 and set to Soft Light 100%.
2. New layer, fill with #E10185 and set to Lighten 100%.
3. Duplicate background, drag to top and set to Soft Light 100%.
4. Duplicate background, drag to top and set to Exclusion 48%. (Percentage may vary)
5. New layer, fill with #F5E38D and set to Burn 64%. (Percentage may vary)
6. Repeat step 3.
7. Duplicate background, drag to top and set to Exclusion 54%. (Percentage may vary.)

Have fun! Play around with the opacity of layers and see what works with the image you’re using.

Other stuff I made with the tut-
icon82.png
icon83.png
icon84.png
 
I just made up a tut! we're going from this:
01-6.png
to this:
myluminositycopy.jpg


Don't prep your base. Start a raster layer and fill it with #0B2645 set to Soft Light 50%.
Next start a raster layer and fill it with #3B96C1 on Overlay 100%.
Start another raster layer and fill it with #E10185 on Lighten 75%.
Another raster layer with #5B0E0B on Exclusion 100%.
Another raster layer with #05764B on Multiply 30%.
Another raster layer with #3D0B43 on Exclusion 100%
At this point the picture should look pretty ugly, but never fear!
Duplicate your base, bring it to the top, and set it to Overlay 100%.
Start a Hue/Saturation layer and set the Master Saturation to +10, the Blue Saturation to +15, and the Red Saturation to +10.
Start your last raster layer and fill it with #B9EDF7 set on Color Burn(or just Burn) at 100%.
Now, at this point it looks like you could be done. if you like it this way, you could leave it like this. But I thought it was too dark, so I duplicated my base and brought it to the top and set it to Luminosity. The percentage depends completely on the picture. On some pictures I set it to 100% and then duplicate the base again set on Overlay at 50% and put it right under the Luminosity layer. It's all up to you! After I flattened all the layers, I sharpened and blurred my pic. I'd love to see what you guys get!
Here's some other stuff I got with this tut.

alexisbasecopy.jpg
anna13.jpg
 
Dude, you people need a new tutorial! I've been working with a lot lately, so I'm going to throw a new one atcha. Like I've said before, I name all of my tuts, so this one is called: blue glow. I made this up actually on accident when I was fooling around one day, but enough of that, let's get to it!

Start out with your base. This one works best with maybe a pic with a few shadows on it, and it definately is cool if the person has blue eyes. I used this base:
base1.jpg

I didn't prepare this one with sharpening and bluring, but you can. Blur the skin and sharpen the eyes and lips.
Duplicate your base layer and set it to Screen: 25%.
Go to Create new fill or adjustment layer and pick Solid color. Enter #010F2D in and set it to Exclusion, 100%.
Grab another Solid Color layer, this time putting in #9BD9F3 and setting it to Color Burn, 100%.
Go to Create new fill or adjustment layer and pick Hue/Saturation and set the Master to +64 for its saturation. Set that layer to Saturation.
Another Solid color: #380707. Set to Exclusion, 50%.
Another Solid color: #1B112B. Set to Exclusion, 50%.
One last Solid color layer: #8DE3FF. Set to Soft Light, 50%.
Now, duplicate your base layer again and bring it to the top. Set this on Soft Light, 100%.



And you're done! This is what I got:
blueglow.jpg

I'd love to see what y'all come up with. Have fun with it! If you have any questions, just ask.
 
This one was requested by Daydream Believer. :]

This tut is from Narniaweb's tut thread on their forum, so credit to them.

The original base is what I'm going to use for this tut, and then I'll post some examples. I love this tut, and it's SUPER easy. =p

I took this base that was originally used in the other tutorial, and you can prepare yours with the normal sharpening and bluring, yada yada yada.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee145/SusanPev/Avatars/Cast avies/Untitled-2.jpg
Go to Create new fill or adjustment layer and pick Brightness/Contrast. Set the brightness to +10 and the contrast to +10.
Go to Create new fill or adjustment layer and pick Solid Color. Put in #3D0B43 and set it to Exclusion, 100%.
Make another Solid Color layer. This time #D8F2F6 set on Color Burn, 100%.
Another Solid Color layer, #5B0E0B, set to Exclusion, 100%.
Duplicate your base layer and bring it to the top, setting it on Soft Light, 100%.
Go to Create new fill or adjustment layer and pick Hue/Saturation. Set the Reds saturation to +37.


And you're done! This is what the original tutorial ended up with:
Anna8-1.png

This tut will come out differently for different pics. Some will be more red, and some will be more purple. For a different look, get rid of the 3rd Solid Color layer and see what happens. The texture for the pic above is this:
afd.png

The icon Daydream Believer asked about was this one:
edmund3.jpg
and I used this texture:
0008egtw.jpg
 
Heya! Kevin requested a tut on how to put a double picture in your graphics. What I mean by that is, have one picture, and put the same pic as a duplicated layer on top of that one. I'm not going to go into any coloring for this, because the whole concept doesn't require that. You can do whatever coloring you'd like for it.

Now, the first thing to look for when you want to put a duplicated layer on top of your first one is to look for especially dark or light spots. The picture Kev asked about specifically was this one:

magnificent1.jpg


See how the trees and Peter's shirt make for some nice dark spots? So I take my duplicated layer and set it to Lighten. This is what will make the top picture transparent so that they other pic underneath will show through. You can erase on the top layer anything that gets in the way of the bottome picture, or vice versa. If you erase the bottom layer, say underneath the top Peter's face, his face is going to show without anything disturbing it.

The same thing works for pictures with especially white spots, like sky. In this case, you set your top layer to Darken, and do the same thing with your eraser tool.

This actually works for any blending you want to do, not just duplicated images. Hope this is helpful! Here's some other examples of this technique:

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee145/SusanPev/kingedmundactually.jpg
georgiehenleybanner.jpg
 
How to fix old blurry pics. I think you often see this........a pic which quality is so poor you can't enlarge it. Well, it depends on the camera options when the pics was taken. But now you want to enlarge it to use it in a banner. How are you going to fix this??????
I'm going to teach you the easiest way.
1. Open a pic and duplicate it (ctrl + J or CMd + J)
2. Select the duplicated layer and go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the radius around 15 px
3. Blending mode > Overlay (Lighten or screen will make it very light)
4. Reduce the opacity till 50 - 70 %
5. If necessary use the dodge tool to make some parts lighter.

Look at these examples: The left one is the original pic and the right one after I worked on it. But remember....a very blurry pic is always tough to fix
 

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Two things: A technique and a coloring tut.

Technique: Wanna enhance the quality of a pic without using the sharpen tool? This technique makes the picture brighter and of better quality without that.

I start with this picture:
lutechnique1.jpg


Take your base and duplicate the layer, setting it to soft light, 100%. Then, go to Filters and apply High pass with a Radius of 63 pixels to the soft light layer.

lutechnique.jpg


Simple, right? And the quality is immensely better! And I didn't do anything other than this to it. You can use this technique after you do coloring, or if you have a soft light base layer in your coloring, stick this in!


Tutorial: This tut looks best on medium-lighted pictures. Don't do anything too dark, or fix that first, or anything too washed out, cause it won't look good. Things with some shadowing, especially on the face, are good. Some yellow light is cool, because it ends up looking bluish. Well, you'll see. =p

I start with this base:
Base0854.jpg


Go to New Layer/ Solid Color and put in #66140A and set it to Exclusion, 100%.
Go to New Layer/ Solid Color and put in #B9EDF7 and set it to Multiply, 80%.
Now duplicate your base layer and bring it to the top, setting it to Screen. Leave it at this opacity for now; we'll change it later.
Go to New Layer/ Solid Color and put in #C8EEEE and set it to Color Burn, 30%.
Go to New Layer/ Solid Color and put in #0C082C and set it to Exclusion, 100%.
Go to New Layer/ Solid Color and put int #F6E4F4 and set it to Color Burn, 100%.
Now, duplicate your base layer and bring it to the top, setting it to Luminosity at 100%. Duplicate the base again and bring it to the top, setting it to Soft Light at 100%. Now, that Screen base layer will almost definately not stay at 100%, so fool around with it until you get what you like. I really doesn't make this pic lighter; instead, it controls the amount of blue on the lighter areas, making the redder with the screen layer. I like it a little more blue, so I tend to make it less, but I left it at 100% for this one. This is what I got:

exlucionluminosity.jpg


Kinda nice and soft looking, huh? I really liked it. Let me see what you got!
 
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