millerbenny-moved: PART SEVEN: SELECTIVE COLORit’s here!! the biggest tutorial of the series!
millerbenny-moved: PART SEVEN: SELECTIVE COLORit’s here!! the biggest tutorial of the series! i hope y’all are ready bc this is going to be very lengthy. buckle up!selective color is my number one most used layer when i do colorful gifsets. it’s also good for slight color correction and color manipulation and does a much better job than the vibrance layer. but it is also one of the most confusing of the layers since there’s so much you can do with it, so i’ll do my absolute best to break it down :)i’ll also be showing how you can go from this (curves, levels, color balance): to this: using selective color layers! (i almost always use more than one)also, if you’ve been liking my tutorials, consider buying me a coffee ! it’d be greatly appreciated! with a selective color layer you can alter every color in a gif. these are the settings: redyellowgreencyanbluemagentawhiteneutralblackeach setting has the following sliders:slide to the left and you get less cyan/magenta/yellow/black and slide to the right and you get more.when enhancing reds, sliding to the left for cyan gives you more red, because it’s subtracting cyan from the image. if you slide to the right, you get less red, because it’s adding cyan (not quite in a literal sense, the image doesn’t get blue).+100 cyan for the red setting would do this:whereas -100 cyan would do this:+100 magenta:-100 magenta:+100 yellow (not a huge difference):-100 yellow:the black settings under each is the lightness/darkness of the color.-100 black:+100 black:the best way to think about this is to go back to our color balance settings:going away from cyan gives you red (hence brighter reds with -100 cyan). going away from magenta gives you green (hence the greenish hue with -100 magenta) and going away from yellow gives you blue (blue + red = purple, hence the pinkish/purple hue we get there with -100 yellow)the same concept occurs with every other setting no matter the color. it would take absolutely forever to show you this as i did above with each color setting so i’ll do my best to break down the basics as simply as i can for you.reds:yellows:greens:cyans:blues:magentas:the last three (whites/neutrals/blacks) are slightly more straight forward when you think in terms of the color balance layer, especially when it comes to the neutrals settings.& it changes the hue of the entire thingfor example, -100 yellow gives us this:it puts a blue hue over everything no matter the color.+100 magenta adds magenta to everything and so onwhite settings do the same thing as neutrals, but only with the lightest/whitest areas.-100 magenta adds that greenish hue to these lighter areas while leaving the rest alone (the majority of the background & his shirt aren’t affected by it):black is a little different but the same concept. since you can’t add to black, using + settings alone doesn’t do much outside of darkening the black areas. but if you subtract (say, -100 cyan)the blacks turn red. however, even though you can’t add to black (so +100 yellow doesn’t turn it yellow) if you keep the -100 cyan and add -100 magenta (which would turn it green by itself) you would get yellow as a resultyou can use the black slider in the black settings instead of levels to darken parts of the gif as well.so that’s a basic rundown of it all! my biggest suggestion is to honestly just play around with it and slide the different settings around to see how it changes and works because that’s the best way to figure it all out since there’s so much to this layer. but now on to how i do my colorings!this is the gif with a very basic coloring (curves to brighten, levels to very slightly darken to avoid washing it out, and color balance to color correct his skin tone)since we have reds in both his skin and his shirt, we’ve avoid that for now. so we’ll focus on yellows, cyans, and blues first.since i really want the yellow to pop, but also want to avoid getting too close to a greenish tint (especially w his hair) i used extremes for all but magentafor cyan & blue i used settings all the way to either -100 or +100 (these are the settings i always use for cyan and blue if i’m aiming for this shade of the color. if i wanted a darker shade that was more blue than cyan, it’d be the same but magenta settings would be +100 instead)then i duplicate the layer (right click > duplicate layer) so i have another one with the same exact settings (sometimes this can make things go a little too crazy, so if that happens, just readjust the settings a little! for this one it worked fine.)the next selective color layer i add will be focusing on the shirt and jacket, so i’ll be adjusting reds and yellows.since i’m no longer worrying about hair or skin tones, i can use extremes in the settings without worrying about it looking bad.this makes his skin too yellow/red for my liking which is why i said i was just focusing on the shirt and jacket, so i use a layer mask to cover his skin and hair. i have a tutorial on layer masks hereit keeps the change where we want it and gets rid of it where we don’t!the next selective color layer is for his skin tone & hair. since this is a little more touchy and easy to screw up (especially during times where you’re making colorings for poc), very rarely should you go with extreme settings for reds. yellows are typically okay, but it all depends on the lighting of the scene. so play around with it! trust your eye.for this layer i’m not worrying about his shirt/jacket bc i’ll use a layer mask to cover that up so it’s just affecting the skin and hair.now if i switch sides so we see what the coloring looks like on the other half, we’ll see a good portion of it was never turned cyanthis is an easy fix! we’ll add one more selective color layer and adjust the neutrals. (as you can tell, these are almost the exact settings i had for cyan & blue earlier!) i just played around with the settings until it looked close enough to the rest of the background color. i also used a layer mask to color over everything aside from the spot i needed cyan in, otherwise it’d all be that color and we definitely don’t want that!and wallah! we have our final result :)you can also use selective color to change one color to another. for example, changing blue/cyan to pink:use cyan & blue settings to get purple: duplicate it as i did before and then add another layer to use magenta settings to get pink!i really really really hope this was helpful! i rely on selective colors a TON and i know it can be really intimidating and confusing, so hopefully after reading this you have a better understanding of how to use it. if you are confused by any of this please let me know! i’d love to help.as always my other tutorials can be found here and if you have any questions, feel free to stop by my inbox and ask, follower or not xx -- source link
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