Skillfully use Photoshop channels to color hand-drawn pictures. In your work, you often use pictures downloaded from the Internet. How do you display these pictures in bright colors into your design? Especially let it process pictures that can be printed. Please see the comparison of the two pictures below.
Do you feel that the color of the first cute little angel is more eye-catching and more beautiful?
Next we come to PHOTOSHOP to see.
Open the picture of the little angel:
Put it into a new PSD file of about 350 pixels.
1. Use the Photoshop Pen Tool to cut out the main image, or use the Magic Wand Tool. Of course, if you want to be more precise, you still need to use the Pen Tool. First, you need to convert the file into cmyk format. Because the color of the picture here is changed according to CMYK.
2. Change the hair part first. It is mainly golden yellow and consists of two colors: M and Y, so we will remove the excess C and K and use the pen tool to select the hair part.
Turn it into a selection, CTRL+Enter, and feather it a little. That way it won't look so stiff when the time comes. What I have here is Feather 1.
Then come to channels C and K:
Remove the cyan and black and see if the effect is brighter.
Of course, if your hair looks too light, you can also use the darkening tool to slightly deepen the areas you want to deepen.
3. Next is the face, which is more complicated here. In the same way, use the pen tool to select a rough part of the face. The face is also composed of M and Y, but the number of P is smaller. Also delete the C and K channels, but be sure to keep the C and K colors for the eyes and eyebrows. (Remember to feather it a little every time you change the selection).
Take a look at the effect.
4. But the face is not very beautiful yet. Use the burn tool to add a little red to the face in the red channel, and deepen the eyebrows and nose lines. Next is the eyes, which should be adjusted to blue to look more beautiful.
After feathering, I used Curves, CTRL+M, and deepened the C channel.
5. The same goes for the mouth. I adjusted it in hue/saturation. Of course, it can be done in other ways.
6. Next, select the conch part and turn it red. Delete these two colors in the C and K channels. Then use curves to adjust the red color.
CTRL+U adjustment
Use the burn tool to deepen the lines.
Select the body clothing part.
Remove the M and K channels.
The color of the clothes looks better, but it needs to be darker to make it look better.
We're going to deepen some of the folds in the channels or using the burn tool.
In the same way: Remove unnecessary colors from the skin of the wings and hands and feet in the channel.
The result is as follows:
This is the pear instance processing process that uses channels to change the brightness of the image.
Here are a few more examples:
