Vintage Coloring Effect

I'm using this random picture of two little girls:



ANY picture will work for this tutorial.


1. Duplicate the BASE layer.
Click filter >> blur >> gaussian blur.
On the pop-up screen, make sure the radius 3.80.



Then, set that whole layer to SOFT LIGHT & DO NOT change the opacity. It should be 100%


2. Make a new layer and fill it with #1a0ff5.
Set the blend mode to EXCLUSION & set the opacity to 20%.


3. Click layers >> new adjustment layers >> curves.
On the pop-up screen, click OK.
Then, set your input to 60 & your output to 113.




4. Make a new layer and fill the background with #bfecff.
Set the blend mode to SOFT LIGHT & the opacity to 50%.


5. Click layers >> new adjustment layers >> channel mixer.
Set your settings to the following:

Output channel RED:
red -30, green +72, blue 0, constant 0
Output channel GREEN:
red +27, green +80, blue +2, constant 0
Output channel BLUE:
red -52, green +86, bluw -154, constant +174

Then, set the blend mode to PIN LIGHT at opacity 25%


6. Create a new layer and fill the background with #f900d9.
Set the blend mode to SCREEN & opacity 17%


Then, you're done! Your picture should look something like this:



EXTRA: You can add finishing touches and effects.
For example, I made the finished picture into a polaroid, added a texture in the background, used a splatter brush, and added some text:




ENJOY =)

haha this is cute :)

madd tutorial love it

I have Photoshop Elements 7.0 and I was looking for the cruve and channel mixer but couldn't find them. Where can I look to find them?

so cute! =)

great tut.
=]

love the tutorial

IT'S NOT CTRL + J, IT'S CTRL + BACKSPACE**
sorry :/
i keep messing it up :p

fill the actual layer**

to choose the background color, you have to go to the little color squares in the tool toolbar and change the color of the one that's underneath it
the top one is foreground color and the bottom one is background color if that makes any sense.
to fill the actually layer, you can use ctrl + j

how do i fill the background make a new layer and fill it with the colors?
can you message me or somthing and let me know ? please. that would be very helpful . thanks!

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