Which setup for overlay in photoshop?
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Hello dear artists, I try out doing overlays atm but I sometimes just don't know how to get the color I want. Which setup do you use? Is there some kind of an overlay instruction? When I have a glade telenine, how do I color it with the original dawn colors the easiest way? Atm I use the options "overlay" or "multiply" at the single layers but I guess there is a besser way. I hope you can help me out :) Thanks a lot in advance!
Well I hand draw my overlays but I'd use a similar technique on recolours so I'd do it like this:
1) Get both the images you need onto Photoshop so you can copy/paste and colour drop as you need.
2.1 + 2.2) Then on another layer set to Colour, select the base pink you require and fill in that layer, it will turn everything below it pink. 2.1 shows how this effects the original coloured image, 2.2 shows what it does to a greyscale image, I prefer working with grey because the effects are more predictable, but it does add a layer of work to do later. You may also wish to go over by hand and erase the pink colour from over the top of the black lines as they'll have changed too.
3.1 + 3.2 Same as 2 but with the colour layer opacity adjusted so you can see the effects. 3.1 has the green show through and it turns yellowish, 3.2 just lowers the saturation of the pink.
4.1 + 4.2 4.1 same as 2. But on 4.2 I have adjusted the greyscale layer with the Curves option to adjust the appearance of the pink layer on top of it.
5 Before and after adjusting the curves layer.
6+7 With glade having 'items' involved, you then need to clear out the bits you don't want pink. If you didn't change it to greyscale in the first place then this is as simple as erasing the pink Colour layers where required. However I pasted the original image back over my new pink one (and changed it to multiply so I could line it up properly then back to Normal). I then started another new layer over the top of this and by hand coloured in all the grass, flowers etc... held down ctrl and clicked on the preview image in the Layers panel, this selects everything on that layer, in this case the white 'flowers', I inverted my selection went back to the original colour image and pressed delete, this removed everything but the flowers and things that I'd previously coloured in white (make sure you delete or hide that white layer though).
8 apparently I can't count and 8 doesn't exist.
9I then started another colour layer and changed the underbelly, paw pads etc... this could have been done at the first colour layer when I turned everything pink, but I forgot... it's a good idea to do it on a separate image so you can duplicate and switch to overlay or similar and adjust the opacity so you can get the right shade.
I hope that's of some use =3
wow thanks so so much! I will try that later when my son is asleep and hope I can manage to do it all - my english is not that great so I hope I will really know what I have to do once I'm in Photoshop. THANKS!
No problem ^^ If you have any trouble finding something then just ping me and I grab some screenshots for you =3
alright I feel really dumb now as I have a question to the 2nd point already (at least I managed to do the first point :P - how do I get a layer set to colour? I looked it all through and just couldn't find such a setting...
Not dumb at all. It should be at the bottom here LINK I'm on CS6 but the same was true for CS2, but I'm not sure what you're using.
