This tutorial was a request and here I’ll teach you how to make psds. It’s a guide for who’s startin

This tutorial was a request and here I’ll teach you how to make psds. It’s a guide for who’s starting with effects. ANY doubts go to my askbox. Like/reblog if it’s usefull, gratefully, Tay.What you’ll need: Photoshop (Windows: Download CS6 | Download CC - Mac: You can find all versions on this tag).  “Which version I choose?” CS5, CS6 or CC. I’m using CC version (2017) and among the three I think it’s the best.Basic (very basic, like open documents, using actions & templates) knowledge about using photoshop.Difficulty level: intermediary. It’s very long, get prepared.Warning: english isn’t my first language so sorry for some (or many) mistakes!Let’s go!1.0  – What is psd & choosing pictures.A psd is an editable photoshop document extension, like .png, .jpg, .exe, etc., not the effect properly. Like, if you’re doing some graphic edit and you want to finish later, you save as .psd and finish when you can. I think this name came because it’s the only way to share with another person to use and adjust as they want.The pictures: You have to choose 2 or more pictures to create your effect. Why? Because when you create a psd the effect can’t work as well as in the only picture you’re using. Normally I use two, but if you’re starting, I advise 3. After you chase, just apply some sharpen.I’m using this to show you somethings:Where I can find pictures? You can find on whi (search for girls, ulzzangs, asian girls, models, site models, {color name} aes; etc.), on instagram (you can search by Cleo Lazuli, Elizabeth Bishop, Alissic, Evie Dee, Nicola Peltz, Gigi Hadid, Kylie, etc.) and on packs or lists made by resourcers on tumblr.Where I can find actions? in every tumblr of resources (just go to /tagged/actions) or DeviantArt.There are three main tumblr of resources. They reblog VERY usefull things, like all you need to start editing. It’s yeahps, completeresources and itsphotoshop!1.1 - Size & Templates.You chase your picture, it’s time to resize it in a document, but, which size? Tumblr size posts to keep it with good quality can be:·         500px (width only) if you use the stylish with the old sizes.·         540px (width only) if you don’t use stylish.Let me explain. Stylish is a tool to personalize websites. Some people when tumblr updated it for 540px started using to came back with the size 500px. I don’t use so every edit of mine have 540px on width. If I put a 500px size, the pic will be flattened and the effect of my action will not appear (for me). The height doesn’t matter.So, follow the rules if it’s 500px:1.      One picture (side by side) on post: width with 500px.2.      Two pictures (side by side) on post: width with 250px.3.      Thre pictures (side by side) on post: width with 166px.If it’s 540px:1.      One picture (side by side) on post: width with 540px.2.      Two pictures (side by side) on post: width with 270px.3.      Thre pictures (side by side) on post: width with 180px.There is a lot of kinds of posts of psds on tumblr:·         One picture.·         Two picture.·         Three picture.·         Psd preview on template! - See how to use a template here.2.0 - Knowing photoshop effect tools.These ones will be your best friends:Brightness/Contrast:Brightness refers to the clarity of an image, both of the illuminated parts and the contours. If you put positive numbers on brightness you’ll have it bright but if you put negative numbers you’ll have it darker.Contrast is about the difference between the light and dark regions of the image; if you put positive numbers you’ll have dark areas demarcated, if you use negative numbers you’ll have dark areas less demarcated.Levels:This one needs to be carefully explained so I put some numbers.original size1 – Channel.Before starting to talk about the channel in photoshop, I need to tell you about RGB channel.RGB is the acronym of the additive color system formed by the initials of the colors in english Red, Green and Blue. The RGB color light system (also called light-color) is used on light-emitting objects such as computer and television monitors, digital cameras, the scanner, and more. In the printers, the subtractive color pattern called CMYK is used (to change it on your ps, jut Ctrl+Y), consisting of the primary pigments Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. The colors are obtained through the mixtures of the three primary colors, in determined quantities. Each of the colors obtained are framed in a scale ranging from 0 to 255. When the three color mixture is at the minimum value (0, 0, 0), the result is black; if it’s maximum (255, 255, 255), it results in white color. The variation between minimum values corresponds to dark tones and between the maximum values, the tones are more intense, lighter.Now, it’s really ease to understand what I’ll say. Let’s see how it works on photoshop. As noted, this tool is for enhancing the tones and brightness of the image. In the channel, you will select RGB to change hue and brightness in general, but if you want to change only the tonality and luminosity of the red roses in the garden, for example, you only select red. I use this tool only when I’m done creating the effect, but obviously you can use it the moment you feel the need; Start, middle, end …2, 3, 4- The imput levels on histogram: But Tay, what the hell is a histogram? It’s an graphic that show you the levels of your picture. How you see, there’s two sides: black (“0”on left side) and white (“255” on right side). This is what will help you analyzing the graphic. ·         If your picture is bright, normally histo will grow for the right side, if it’s darker for the left side.·         If it’s a picture with dark silhouette and with a light background the graphic normally will be a “u”; both sides grown because there’s high incidence of light and dark tones.·      Pics without contrast will normally be grown in the middle, because there’s no high incidence of light and dark tones!·      There’s no “perfect histogram” because every pic is a singularity. That means this tool is very useful if you’re just editing, not making a sharing document like a psd effect.·      Explaining the numbers: 2: darker tones, 3: middle tones and 4: light tones!5 & 6  - Output levels: This option basically removes the tones from the photo. Sliding the light level control to the left will make the entire image darker, while sliding the level control from the shadows to the right will make the whole image lighter. This control is little used because it gives a less convincing effect compared to what we can get with Photoshop’s “Brightness / Contrast” setting.The thing here is adjust the levels that aren’t grow!Curves:This is a “levels” but easier to use! Let’s understand the graphic. How you see, there’s a histogram too and you have RGB control like levels: You’ll have imput levels below and output levels on the left. To adjust, you just need to move the curves or the imput levels “arrows”.If you move the line down it will be darker, if you move up it will be lighter. There’s no secret! Also, this one, like levels, have an “automatic” buttom. If you click the photoshop will automatically adjust but in my opinion, use this just when you can’t get it looking the way you want.Let me show you the difference on curves with the pics:original sizeoriginal sizeExposure:“Exposure” refers to the amount of light received by the camera sensor during image capture. If the sensor receives too much light, the photo will be overexposed: with very white areas, bursting and without details. If the sensor does not receive sufficient light, the photo will be underexposed: black areas, and also loss of detail.In its effect, depending on the layers of color adjustment, sometimes this can happen, and it’s this tool that will help you to adjust it correctly.On exposure tool we have exposure, offset and gamma correction.Exposure: adjusts the incidence of exposure in highlights (light tones) with minimal effects in the shadows. The higher the number (or the slider to the right), the more intense the illuminated parts of the picture;Offset: adjusts the incidence of exposure in shadows (dark tones) with minimal effects on highlights. The smaller the number (or the more slider to the left), the more intense the darkened parts of the photo. Take care, you usually do not adjust / use this “sub-tool” of exposure on psds.Gamma correction: adjusts the brightness of the photo as a whole, including the midtones. If the number is larger (or the more slider to the left), the picture get darker - and vice versa;Vibrance/Saturation: Both are to give a vivid effect for the colors, the difference is that saturation is stronger than vibrance, so, vibrance you adjust when you’re editing personal pictures because of skin tone.How you see, on 35 the saturation effect gets really strong. But when we turn only vibrance on maximum…Now, hue/saturation:On hue saturation we have hue, saturation and luminuosity.Hue: changes all colors at once or individually. Use layers’ blend mode and opacity/fill to adjust it. Let me show you. *I’m gonna change pictures to more colored ones bc it will be better*These are blend mode and opacity/fillIf you use one of them, you’ll have a different effect on the layer. But sometimes, it’s stronger so you use opacity or fill do adjust it:Now, let’s see. I want this picture more red so I’ll put an adjustment on it. First, I’ll edit all colors together.But it still not red so I’m gonna change the red only. Go to “main” or where I put “red” and change it to red.Saturation: gives a vivid effect on colors. So, if you don’t get it as vivid as you want, you adjust saturation with positive numbers to make it.Luminuosity: increases/removes the brightness of the colors, making them darker or lighter.Color balance:The Color Balance command changes the overall color mixture in an image for a generalized color correction. In the Properties pane, select Shadows, Midtones, or Highlights to select the tonal range in which you want to focus your changes.(Optional) Select Preserve Brightness to avoid changing the brightness values in the image when the colors are modified. This option maintains the tonal balance in the image. Drag the slider toward a color whose value will be magnified in the image. Move a slider away from the color whose value will decrease in the image. Here you can also use blend mode and opacity or fill.Black and White:This isn’t just to make the colors black and white. You can use this to make colored psds too. If you adjust the color where is more black and use less % (like 20%) of opacity or use one of the blend mode you can make the color more darker and stronger. If you use it where is more white you’ll have it more ligher and full of luminuosity.Photo filter:The Photo Filter setting imitates the technique of placing a colored filter in front of a camera lens to adjust the balance and color temperature of reflected light through the lens and the film exposure technique. This setting also allows you to choose a color preset (on filter) to apply a hue adjustment to an image. If you want to apply a custom color adjustment, the Photo Filter setting lets you specify a color with the Adobe Color Picker (on color).In this example, I’m using cyan filter:Channel mixer:Modifies a color channel and makes color adjustments that are not easily made with other color adjustment tools. See the example. On my psd 131 I wanted some blue/cyan/orange/red colors, so I used channel mixer to fix it.Pic with the rest of the adjustments on the psd:Pic with the first channel mixer layer:Pic with the second adjustment:And of course, if you want to use blend mode and opacity or fill… feel free!Selective color:This tool is to adjust every color individually. You choose the color on “colors” and then adjust the cyan tones, magenta, yellow and blacks. The “relative” makes it less stronger than “absolut”. Also you can turn reds in pink or any color with this tool!Changing colors with selective colors tutorial: pt.1 & pt.2Gradient map:You can use these ones and download more on resources. Gradient map gives you more effects than you can imagine. Use them with blend mode and opacity or fill. Trick: you see this black and white, right? Change the color black to the color you wants to adjust to make the color more visible and beauty.Tools not used.Color lookup - only applicable in photoshop CC, previous versions do not accept this type of extension so avoid putting the effects of this extension on your psds.Invert - use only if you want to make some kind of psd, or darker, but it does not always help much. When I put it, I always end up excluding this layer.Posterize and threshold - simply do not generate usable effects in basic editions like icons, headers, gifs, etc. It might look good on some graphic you’re making, but it does not suit the ideals of a psd.Tips & tricksPSDS aren’t just one of these effects, they’re a compilation of it.Select a color to adjust to start. You want to do a red psd? start by putting adjustments on this color!You can use textures too.Search for a lot of tutorials.Guide: types of psds.Be careful with whitewashing!!!My experience:I started making psds when I made ciara but I trained a lot, I posted a lot of ugly things too. This is not something you learn from day to night, it takes a lot of training. Look at psd tutorials, see how other people make their adjustments. There is always something new to learn. But let’s do one with me? Let’s go!Doubts? ASKBOX! <3PSD TUTORIAL: download it to see layers on your photoshop. Disable all layers visibility and enable one by one while reading about layers.About layers:First layer: I started with less contrast because I think the dark areas are demarcated and I wanted a little less.Second layer: it’s a levels adjust so I did it according to the histogram.Third layer: Little adjustments on curves. As you see, the picture is more vivid and dark.Forth layer: green gradient map with blend mode and opacity adjustments. This was to adjust green tones on pictures.Fifth layer: more contrast because of the dark areas.Sixth layer: it’s just an adjustment to fix the less contrast that the gradient map gave to the picture.Seventh layer: I wanted middle tones not to saturated. (Still taking off contrast, sigh)Eighth layer: I don’t want yellow tones so… I just made them weak?Nineth layer: a solid color layer. I think I FORGOT to mention it before. Go here:and then click on “solid color” select a color and use blend mode or opacity/fill. Black with less opacity makes the picture darker and the white makes the picture lighter. You can also use another colors. So, I put this adjustment to start fixing (again) the contrast.Tenth layer: black and white, to adjust contrast too.Eleventh layer: it’s too dark so I made an adjustment with selective color on “neutral” tones.Twelveth layer: I don’t like black colors too hightlighet so I made an adjust on blacks.Thirteenth layer: adding colors!Forteenth layer: adjust on blue colors.Fifteenth layer:  it needs a cold filter because I’m working with orange color.Sixteenth and seventeenth layer: contrast adjust.Eighteenth layer: a gradient map to give color.Nineteenth layer: not too orange!Twentieth layer: contrast adjust.And I think it’s okay for an effect. That’s how you make a psd. It’s an adjust behind the other until you finish it!Any doubts, go o my askbox. I hope I could introduce you to this world! -- source link

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