Whee I thought I'd have a shot at making some tutorials of Request banners I've done, mainly because I actually have the requests psds nicely saved in an organised folder, whereas everything else is left in a mess called WIPS...
This is probably better for people who know how to use photoshop, becuase I'm too lazy to explain everything
Anywho
Heres how to make a selective colour banner like this:
1 - Make a new file in photoshop, I used 600 x 200 but you can do whatever size you feel like making.
Paste your images ionto the canvas on seperate layers, resize them and position them where you want. I used
this one and
this one of Liv Tyler
2- Now for the blending.
First you need a background colour so get your eyedropper tool and pic a colour from the image background, mine was #0f1a0f. Make a new layer, drag it behind the other layers and fill it with colour.
Now we need to get rid of the edges of the images, take the eraser tool on a relatively large size (20px +) with 0 hardness and erase bits of the background so it blends, it doesn't need to be super neat.
The image on the left was slightly cropped and had a darker background so to blend it better I made a new layer, picked a colour from her shoulder and used the circular gradient tool with #040e08 to make a sort of glow behind her
3- Now we need to prepare the images for selective colour, I start by duplicating all my layers and then merging the duplicates together into one base image (I'll call it base for now
), then I still have the original images incase I make any mistakes! Hide all layers appart from the base and sharpen base if needed.
Now duplicate the base image twice so I have 3 copies of it. Change the Blend mode of Copy 1 to Screen 100% and Copy 2 to Overlay 100%
The image should look something like this
I think it looks quite dark, as it is so I decided to add a glow. To do this on a new layer above all the others, I grabbed my gradient tool and made a circular gradient towards the left, using #cdcdcc. Then I set that layer to Linear Light 60% and erased any bits that covered Liv with my eraser tool.
4- Selective colour works best with a bright colour contrast, because my image looked quite black, I added a new layer with #fef668 set at Soft light 100% over the top
I still thought the picture looked quite cold, so I grabbed
this texture by RHCP_CSI, pasted it onto a new layer and set it to Soft Light 100%
5- Now for the fun bit. Selective colour!!!
Make a new Selective colour adjustment layer and use these settings:
Reds:
Cyan: -45
Magenta: +11
Yellow: +48
Black: +35
Yellows:
Cyan: -10
Magenta: +39
Yellow: +12
Black: 0
Neutrals:
Cyan: +100
Magenta: +16
Yellow: -100
Black: 0
I usually like primary colour contrasts, so I try and make the red and blue as bright as possible (whilst still looking nice) and the skin slightly yellowy or orange
the banner should now look like this
6- Now to jazz it up a bit, take
this light texture, by Crazy Kira, resize it to fit your canvas and set it to Screen 100%. I thought the colours looked a bit dull so I dragged it below the yellow fill layer made in step 4 which intensified the colours
Finally, add text, whatever you like in whatever font you like
I used More Enchanted Praerie Dog for the Large text and Men in Black Credits, with spaces inbetween each letter, for the Small text. Both were custom fonts from DA Font. I wrote them both in white #ffffff.
I used my pencil tool to draw a line dividing them & then added a Dedication.
And your finished
I hope that was easy enough to follow, any more specific questions just ask me, I'd be happy to help