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Step 1: Sharpen your image once.

Step 2: Create a new selective colour layer and use the following settings:

Reds: -100/ -60/ 100/ 100
Yellows: 100/ 40/ -100/ -36
Greens: -100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Whites: 42/ -43/ -27/ 0
Neutrals: -34/ 0/ -13/ -18

Step 3: Create another selective colour layer and use the following settings:

Reds: 100/ 0/ 100/ 0
Yellows: 100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Neutrals: -14/ 0/ 7/ 6

Step 4: (optional step) Create a color balance layer and use the following settings:

Midtones: -44 1 26

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Aly and Aj Tutorial

1- Crop and sharpen your base once if HQ.

2- Create a new selective colour layer and use the following settings:

Reds: -100/0/100/100
Yellows: 100/0/-100/100
Cyans: 100/-100/-100/0
Neutrals: -37/-16/6/0

3- Create a new Brightness Contrast layer and set the Contrast to +19

4- Finally create a new layer and fill it with #001F56 and set to difference 25%

Others:

   

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1- Crop and sharpen your base once if HQ.

2- Create a new layer and fill it with #F69679 and set to Softlight 100%.
3- Create a new layer and fill it with #2E3092 and set to Exclusion 50%.
4- Create a new selective colour layer and use the following settings:

Reds: -100/ 0/ 100/ 0
Yellows: -100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Whites: -100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Neutrals: 100/ -5/ -19/ 11

5- Create a new hue saturation layer and use the following settings:

Saturation: 20
6- Finally create a new brightness contrast layer and use the following settings:

Contrast: 18

Others:

From this: To this:

1- Crop and sharpen you base once (If HQ)

2- Create a new selective colour layer and use the following settings:

Reds: -100/ 100/ 100/ -100
Yellows: -100/ 0/ 100/ 100
Greens: -100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Whites: 100/ 0/ 0/ 0
Neutrals: 100/ 21/ 14/ -6

3- Create a new selective colour layer and use the following settings:

Reds: 100/ 0/ 100/ 0
Yellows: 100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Neutrals: -45/ 0/ 0/ 0

4- Create a new brightness contrast layer and use these settings:

Brightness: 10
Contrast: 10

5- Finally create a hue/saturations layer and set the saturation on the master menu to 10.

Others:

     

From this   To This:

1- Crop and sharpen your image once.

2- Create a new selective colour layer and use the following

settings:

Reds: -100/ 16/ 100/ 0
Yellows: 100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Whites: -100/ 0/ 0/ 0

3- Create a new color balance layer and use the following settings:

Midtones: 0/ 0/ 36

4- Finally create another selective colour layer and use the

following settings:

Reds: 100/ 0/ 0/ 0
Yellows: 100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Neutrals: 40/ 0/ 0/ 0

Others: 
       

From this: to this:

1- Crop and sharpen your base once (if its hq).

2- Create a new layer and fill it with #FD1984 and set to Saturation 50%.

3- Create a new selective colour layer and use the following settings:

Reds: -100/ 100/ 100/ 0
Yellows: 100/ -100/ -100/ 0
Blues: -100/ 0 / -100/ 0
Magentas: -100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Neutrals: 100/ 0/ 0/ 0

3- Finally create a brightness/contrast layer and set the contrast to 10.

Others:

       

From this:  To This:

1- Crop and sharpen your layer (if HQ)

2- Create a new selective colour layer and use the following settings:

Reds: -100/ 0/ 100/ 0
Yellows: -100/ 0/ -100/ 0
Neutrals: 72/ 7/ 3/ -17

3- Create a new hue saturation layer and use the following settings:

Saturation: 10 (on the master pallette only)

4- Create a new brightness contrast and use the following settings:

Contrast: 15

Others:
      
 

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1- Crop and sharpen you base once (if HQ).

2- Create a new selective Colour layer and use the following settings:

REDS: -100/ 0/ 100/ 0
YELLOWS: 97/ 0/ -100/ 0
WHITES: 100/ 0/ 11/ 0
NEUTRALS: 42/ -18/ -16/ 21

3- Next create a new colour balance layer and use the following setting:

Midtons: 41/ -23/ -32

4- Create a level layer and use the following settings:

RGB: 0/ 1.00/ 255
RED: 0/ 1.11/ 255
GREEN: 0/ 1.06/ 255

5- Create a hue saturation layer and uses the following settings:

Master: 0/ 20/ 0
Reds: 0/ 5/ 0

6- Create a new brightness contrast layer and set the contrast to 15.

7- (opitonal) Finally to make the lips stand out create a new layer and set to softlight. Then using the colour ff0000, paint over the lips.

Others:

    

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1- Crop your base and sharpen it once (if HQ)

2- Create a new layer and fill with #C4DF9B. Set to Softlight 100%.

3- Next create a selective colour layer and use the following settings:

REDS: -100/ 100/ -100/ 6
YELLOWS: -25/ 14/ 50/ 41
GREENS: -100/ 100/ -100/ -16
WHITES: -100/ -100/ -100/ -100
NEUTRALS: 8/ 3/ -8/ -6

4- Create a new hues saturation layer and use the following settings:

Hues: 5
Saturation: 20

(on the master pallette only!!)

5- Finally create a new layer and merge all other layers into it (alt+

shift+ctrl+e). Set this layer to screen 25%.

This tutorial works in 2 ways:

For whiter images, it make the white really bright and stands out.

For more colourful images, it make the colours bold and bright.