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Tutorial: Boost the colors of an image

Choose an image and create a new layer. Use a soft white brush with 50% opacity to lighten up the places where you can see the lights on the pic. For example, on the cap I chose, I will use the soft brush on Blair’s head, back, and the left side of Serena’s face.

http://i.imgbox.com/acjPTg1j.jpg

Now duplicate the base and put it above this layer on soft light or whatever fusion you find cool (soft light and overlay are the best, imo). You can see your pic has already lightened up a little.

http://i.imgbox.com/acmJcdwQ.jpg

Now go to Filters > Gaussian Blur > and choose a high number for the blur and apply the effect. This numbe

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Ive never done a tutorial before.

So i thought i would try.

This tutorial tells you how to get the most color from your images.

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~rliuLY May 15, 2006 Photographer

this is very useful to me,
quite simple.

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~IamAveragejoe May 15, 2006 Digital Artist

thanks dude, im glad you like it.

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~IamAveragejoe May 11, 2006 Digital Artist

Thanks for all the +fav: guys! I guess ill be making more soon.
You might as well tell me what you would like to see as far as a photoshop tutorial, and ill see what i can do.

-Averagejoe

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~boss019 May 10, 2006

Very nice tut!

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~IamAveragejoe May 11, 2006 Digital Artist

Thanks man. I did it for a photography project, but im still not done. There will be more soon!

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