From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

719 Infusing an image with the color of money

From the course: Deke's Techniques (2018-2021)

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719 Infusing an image with the color of money

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're gonna take that faux engraving effect that we created using contour mapping inside Photoshop. And we're going to infuse it with the color of money, using a gradient map adjustment layer. And so I'll go ahead and switch over to my image so far. Notice that the cash layer, which is that horizontal line pattern, is currently selected. At which point I'll go up to the layer menu, choose new adjustment layer, followed by gradient map. And I'm just gonna name this layer green, because that's what it's gonna be. And I'll click OK. Now as you may recall, a gradient map layer, goes ahead and maps the luminance levels across an image, with the various luminance and color values associated with gradient itself. So if I switch to this default gradient right here. Blue red yellow. Then I would map the shadows to the first color in the gradient, which is blue. And then I'd map the mid-tones to the second color, which is red. Then the highlights to the third color, which is yellow. Obviously that's not what I want. So I'll just go ahead and switch back to this guy, black white. And then I'll click on that gradient ramp to bring up the gradient editor dialogue box. Now recall that the opacity stops are located above this gradient bar, while the color stops are located below. Now I'm happy with the black's mapping the black and the white's mapping the white. But I want to map the shadows and mid-tones and highlights to other colors. So I'll go ahead and click right about there and I'm looking for a location value of exactly 20%. At which point I'll double-click on that color stop to bring up the color picture dialog box. And I'll change this hue value to 90 degrees, which is green. I'll set the saturation to 33%, which is pretty low. And I'll set the brightness value to 20%, which is quite dark. And so we end up with this pretty ugly olive green right here. It's gonna work out great though, so click OK. And then I'll click right about there to create another color stop. I'm looking for a location value down here of 50%. At which point I'll double-click on that color stop to again visit the color picker dialogue box. I'll change the hue value this time around to 120 which is still green, but just a little bit less yellow. And then I'll Tab down to the brightness value and bring it up to 70. A saturation value of 33% is still fine. Then I'll click OK. And now I'll click right about there, and I'm looking for a location of 80%. Then I'll double-click on this color stop. And I'll bring the hue value back down to 90 degrees. Then I'll set the saturation value to just 20%. And I'll bring the brightness value up to 90%. And then I'll click OK. And that is it. Now If I wanted to save this gradient, I'd just give it a new name, such as cash green. And then I would click on the new button. So you need to name it before you click new. And then go ahead and click OK and hide the properties panel. And then finally, I'll just go ahead and turn on this top layer. In order to add some money-like text. And that is how you infuse your faux engraving with the color of money, using a gradient map adjustment layer here inside Photoshop.

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