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wmchauncey

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working with colors
« on: February 20, 2015, 03:52:03 pm »

I've got these smoke images, example below, that I want to introduce strands of different colors haphazardly,
kinda like an aurora borealis.  The smoke is on a separate selection if it matters. How might I do that in PS CC?


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Alan Smallbone

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Re: working with colors
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2015, 04:31:59 pm »

Selective color adjustment layer, or with a selection a hue/saturation layer with the "colorize" box checked. But there may be better ways to do it.

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Re: working with colors
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2015, 06:26:03 pm »

Using HSl with either colorized or hue changed, then use blend if and set it to only affect the lighter tones. Create another with a different hue, blend If only affecting the darker tones. Then play with gradients on the mask on each layer.
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Re: working with colors
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2015, 05:14:13 am »

I did something similar, some time ago:

* Leave the smoke layer on top, and set it to "Luminosity" mode; no need to perform any selecting or masking.
* Create a new layer, below the smoke layer, and render some cloud-like random colors there.
* Adjust and tweak.

(PS: I did this using GIMP, not Photoshop; hope my translation from GIMP to Photoshop is accurate)
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Re: working with colors
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2015, 06:57:33 am »

All that sounds plausible...thanks guys!      ;)
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Re: working with colors
« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2015, 07:17:21 am »

Using three different HSL layers that affects different brightness I blend if.
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