TEEN WOLF | Scott Mccall

TEEN WOLF | scott mccall

You can’t save everyone. 

                     I have to try.

Don't bring flowers after I'm dead Save your givings for the living instead

A knife to wound; a knife to heal.

I suppose that I look different without the robes and crown. I come this day before you with no riches, no renown. For here I am no leader, I am just a humble man. And I only ask you take me, you take me as I am

x x I’ll wait for you; Please trust me now, trust me now. I won’t hurt you, love.

COLOR TUTORIAL #3

Yet another tutorial, this time with orange, yellow, contrasting and Sam and Dean. Beginner to Intermediate level skills. I use Photoshop CS6 for all of my tutorials. 

To be clear, I will show you how to turn this unedited screencap of Sam Winchester:

Into this:

First things first, open up the top screencap and crop as needed. My cap was cropped on the top and bottom edges, and resized it to 500 x 264. Then I duplicated the background layer, set it to screen and duplicate it again. Adjust the opacity of the second duplication as you need to. 

Like most of my tutorials I use gradient layers to increase light and shadows. Right click on the two below to save them. 

The top one needs to be set to soft light, and placed wherever the greatest shadows are in your image. For this cap, the dark in on the left, the light on the right. Duplicate that layer, then add the bottom gradient set to soft light again, opacity should be 75-80%.

Next a black and white adjustment set to soft light, I put the opacity to about 12%. Next color balance. 

(color balance: +22, +5, -33; I didn’t change the shadows or highlights)

Then another color balance. 

(color balance: +38, -9, +37;  I didn’t change the shadows or highlights)

Mask this color balance layer and focus it on the background. My end mask was like this: 

Now we add some color. Make a new blank layer and take a large soft brush in an orange tone (#f5c665) Set it to hard light, 38-40% opacity. Then color on the right side, away from Sam. 

Another color balance layer. This time: midtones -10, 0, +15; highlights +23, +17, +31; shadows +29, 0, +36.

Mask that color balance like the layer above. We only want these tones on the right side. Add another one, this one will be for the entire image. Midtones 0, 0, 0; highlights 0, 0, -3; shadows +3, 0, -3. Next make a selective color adjustment, only focusing on black tones (+20). 

Then another blank layer, and this time just use black to fill in the left hand side. Use a soft brush; like so:

Next two solid color fill layers. The first in this color #ec9d75, 44% opacity. The second in this color #e07761, 60% opacity. These are the masks: 

Another selective color; reds, -10, +8 and blacks 0,0,0, +8. Now add a black & white gradient, soft light blend mode and 44% opacity.This is how he looks so far:

Next I did a lot of coloring to the eyes. Curves, color balance and a layer of black fro the pupil. Then I used a light pink color set to multiply and colored over his lips at a low opacity. Subtle changes in detail can make all the difference in my opinion, but these two steps are optional. 

(color balance: midtones +6, 0, -13; highlights +6, 0,  +20; shadows 0, 0, 0)

Then a vibrance adjustment, +19, +5. Yet another color balance: midtones -8,0,-12; highlights 0,0,+20; shadows 0,0,0.

(selective color: reds +12,-4,-7,0)

Now stamp the image (ctrl+shift+alt+e) and smart sharpen. These are the settings I always use.

Last, I added one more color balance and masked it like so: 

(color balance: midtones -13,0,-24; highlights 0,0,-15; shadows 0,0,0)

Finished result:

Here is a second image, this time of Dean with the same method:

DOWNLOAD THE PSD HERE.