I love it when I randomly figure out how to make things look pretty and then share them with the world.
As always, I use Photoshop 7, but this can be done in any Photoshop version. No clue about the other programs.
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in six easy steps!It's really five steps because the first step is just picking your image.
| Step 1 | Original | Start out with a screencap. Mine I made myself and is from House 2x13 Skin Deep. |
| Step 2 | | Crop it. Resize to 100x100. This is your base. |
| Step 3 |  | Duplicate your base and set it to Screen 100%. |
| Step 4 |  | Another duplication of the base at Screen 100%. |
| Step 5 |  | Duplicate the base again, set it to Soft Light 100%. Then go up to the Color Balance menu (Image > Adjustments if you don't know where that is), and set Cyan to -100. Sharpen once. |
| Step 6 | | Duplicate the layer you just made, keep it on Soft Light, but now the opacity is dropping down to 20%. You can Sharpen again if you like, but otherwise, you're done. |
Now wasn't that easy?
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artistic - Music:Thicke - "When I Get You Alone"
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(p.s. Sex Kills is 2x14 :D)
Yeah I love the cyan adjustment when things are too red. I know another trick that makes skin look better - you make a new layer, set it to Soft Light like 50%, and then do Hue/Saturation with Hue at 180/-180 (same thing either way) and that also makes skin look more...flesh-colored.
thanks for the hint!
good luck with your header. masks are useful, but damn, after a while you get sick of seeing translucent red! bleh.
I can't wait to watch Sex Kills. Photoshop stole me away, though, so alas, I must watch it tomorrow.
And Lost and Coldplay sooooo lend themselves well to each other. My first theme had a cast image and it said "Everything's Not Lost" across the bottom because I think I'm funny like that. :P The new header I'm working on now I'm trying to not incorporate Coldplay lyrics into, but I keep returning to "A Rush of Blood to the Head."