There are a lot of skills that adult Webmasters must learn if they wish to be effective in their design efforts, and possibly the most important part of Web site design is the visual presentation. Mastering Photoshop, Adobe’s powerful image manipulation tool, can mean the difference between publishing visually unattractive adult sites and publishing a creative masterpiece! Our Photoshop tutorials will help you add to your Photoshop skills by presenting you with a new Photoshop trick or skill each time out. If you take the time to read these tutorials and then apply them to your online efforts, in time you’ll find that your graphic design skills will have jumped to a whole new level.There are a lot of skills that adult Webmasters must learn if they wish to be effective in their design efforts, and possibly the most important part of Web site design is the visual presentation. Mastering Photoshop, Adobe’s powerful image manipulation tool, can mean the difference between publishing visually unattractive adult sites and publishing a creative masterpiece! Our Photoshop tutorials will help you add to your Photoshop skills by presenting you with a new Photoshop trick or skill each time out. If you take the time to read these tutorials and then apply them to your online efforts, in time you’ll find that your graphic design skills will have jumped to a whole new level.

Brightening Up Colors

Software: Photoshop 6
Skill Level: Basic

In this tutorial you will learn how to intensify the colors of an image; subtle color manipulation can bring out a picture’s details and produce a high quality effect.

The image below has lost some of its brilliance, so we’ll brighten the sea and the sky, then bring back some of the vibrance to the foliage and the hills in the background. This will achieve a controlled, saturated image.

Step 1: First add a Selective Color Adjustment Layer as shown below:

Step 3: This time select Greens from the dropdown menu and type in these settings: Cyan= +50, Magenta= -100, Yellow= +50, Black= -50. This helps intensify and lighten the colors of the foliage in the background.

Step 4: Again from the dropdown menu, select Yellows and set Cyan to -100. This brings back the yellow areas to the foliage, creating a natural and tonally correct feel.

Step 5: Now for a final subtle adjustment. Duplicate the background layer and drag it so that it is the top layer, as shown below. Then change its Blending Mode to Overlay and its opacity to 50%. Your layers should look like this:

Below is the final product. With some playing around with the Adjustment Levels you can bring out the best of any picture.

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