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A note about this tutorial, I wrote it in character for a roleplay community as a joke, and I may have missed some words here and there calling people morons- D: I do not think anyone is one.

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Level: Medium
Translatable: No selective coloring






Your base image is smaller than the actual canvas. New > Open > 575 x 393

Move it all the way to the right.



Then duplicate the image layer and set it to Soft Light > 100 %



Then duplicate the that layer once more, and then set that to SCREEN > Opacity: 59 %, Fill: 59%




New Layer Adjustment layer > Hue and Saturation
Follow the image: Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue and Saturation, set it to +33.



New Adjustment layer > Color Balance

Color Balance:

Midtones: -57, -21, -48
Highlights: -29, -7, -14
Shadows: -8, -4, +30



Create a new fill layer and fill it with #FCD89F. Set it to MULTIPLY > 100 %



Create another blank layer. Fill with #C6C6C6. Set it to SOFT LIGHT > 100 %



Create fill layer again. Fill with #78BEFF. Set to COLOR BURN > 31 %




Create fill layer. Fill with #FF6868. Set to SOFT LIGHT > 42%



New Adjustment layer: Hue Saturation > Hue: -8, Saturation: +11, Lightness: + 1



Duplicate the base image and bring it to the top. Set to Soft light.



Create a new fill layer. Fill with #FFCCAA and set to PIN LIGHT > Opacity 2 percent.



Create New Layer Adjustment Layer > Color Balance.

Midtones: -16, + 36, + 10
Highlights: +14, +12, +19
Shadows: -4, +1, + 24



New Layer: Paste this texture (made by xswaniconsx), set to DARKEN 42 %



It looks like this:



Duplicate that image layer and set to SOFT LIGHT > 42 percent



Paste this texture at the top (done by sanami276) and set to Darken > 100 %
Texture:



It looks like:



Lastly, take this texture done by Tokyo @ Disparue and set to Screen > 100 %.

Texture:



Looks like:



End Result:



Layer Palette:




download the PSD



An example of a similar method with another graphic (I can write tutorial on this header as well if people request it).