So I am going to come in here and I am going to ask myself what color do I want the lips. Well, I am going to go with hot pink, and so hot pink is magenta, so where will I find magenta? It does not say magenta here. Well, the complimentary color of magenta is green, so this channel will control magenta for me. And, I will grab, begin the slider and move it to the right and that gets me more magenta. And, notice when I am doing this that the whole image is not turning magenta, just the lips, because I pre-selected it.
And, I will go in to the blue too, adding a little blue makes it a little pinker like that and click OK and control minus on PC, come in a minus on a Mackintosh to zoom out. And, if I want to soften in that edge of the mask a little bit, I can again go in the filter, blur, and Gaussian blur. Let us zoom out on this, I think that is a little too much, but we can certainly soften it up. Oh! I have got it around 10 pixels, nine to 10 pixels just to soften up those edges around the lips.
And, you can also experiment again with blending modes. Now, if you are on a PC, you can cycle the blending modes by just clicking in the blending mode window here until it is highlighted, and then just press your down arrow, and it is going through all the blending modes for you. Of course it is cycling through at the current opacity, and that is you and then color, saturation, just go up here back to normal. Or, you can just come up here and select it. I am going to lower the opacity of this a little bit, I just want a little flavor there.
And, what I like to do also is make one of this pull balls match her lips. So, I am going to name this one first, lips. This time, I am going to actually start off with a selection using the Elliptical Marquee Tool. And I am going to select this orange ball down here, and just drag that out, and use the space bar while I am still pressing the mouse down to position this around the ball, and then release the space bar, and then tack it right in.
So, using this tool in this instance is going to be quicker than a brush because it is a geometric shape and as we learn in the previous step when you have selection running and you call upon one of this adjustment layers, it will create the mask for you automatically. So, we are going to be consistent here, I am going to try to get that color by mixing it in levels. And so, it is going to have to interact with this orange down here, and I may have to change the blending mode to something later. But, I am just going to try to dial it in a little bit more and so I am going to go in to the red channel, and I want a little bit more red. So I am going to move this to the left here. And, I want more magenta so I am going in to the green channel, and I am going to move it over here. Okay, and in to the blue channel and a little bit of blue to it, and I am going to click OK on that.
Now, I am going to experiment with the blending modes here for this, and I am going to just go down to color right away, and I may darken this a little bit, that is a bit closer than what it was, so that it is kind of picking up some of the pink there. I am going to double click on this, in the composite channel, maybe darken this a little bit. So, I will take the midpoint slider and move it to the right here. Well, not too much darker here I think, just a little tad, and click OK.
And then, I am going to come in here and clean up that little over cast of pink here with the brush. So, you ask yourself the question, do I want to conceal that instruction or reveal it? That way you will know what color to set your full grown color. Well, white is revealing that color cast, so obviously I want to hit that with black to bring back that original color of the number there, and, go back in here. I am going to go back to the green channel. There we go, tap that a little more to the right.
And again, the numbers, it is just sort of me to look at it and match, and instead of me giving you the numbers, there we go. Now, we got a nice hot pink glow there. All right, I am going to click OK and just call this pull ball, control minus to zoom out, and let us do a quick before and after. I want to move the layers palette out of the way. I am going to use that same trick, we are going to move it out of the window, but of alt or option clicking and the visibility icon next to the background layer. And, what that does is it shuts off all the layers but leaves that layer on, and then when I do that again, it turns them all back on. So, it remembers that position, so I am going to move this out here and alt option click on the background layer for a good look at it before, and alt option, click on it again to look at what we have done so far.
Continue this tutorial in part seven, thanks.
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