Colour Effects Tutorial

This tutorial is for Paintshop Pro. (These caps are from PSP8, but they are basically the same in PSP7)

How to make colour effects like this one:



You start off with the original image; I've already done the border, the text, and the scan lines, so we'll just leave that as it is:



You need to duplicate the background, so you have two identical layers. Then, you need to set the top layer to a different setting, like this:



I've used Dodge, but you can use a different one if it looks better! Now, the top layer will look very bright like this:



Now, thats just a little too bright - so we'll adjust the opacity of the Dodged layer. It's at 100% opacity at the moment; lets take it down to about 50:



Now the image will hopefully look the way you want it to! You can adjust the opacity to suit your wishes; if you want the colour effect to be more pronounced, just set the opacity higher, and if you want it more subtly, just lower the opacity! It's that simple.



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