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

908 Continuous rainbow faces in Photoshop

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

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908 Continuous rainbow faces in Photoshop

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- Hey, gang, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to "Deke's Techniques", the very late July days. Today, we're going to take that sequence of five seamlessly interwoven faces that I, by which I mean we, created last week, and we're going to color those faces with a rainbow. Now, at first this may seem trivial. After all, just create a gradient made up of rainbow colors. Yes, but how to get the balance right and how to precisely affect the skin tones, how to keep the natural skin textures, and how to make the whole thing look just plain organic? The answer to that and much, much more is captured in the next few minutes. All right, here are the final rainbow faces, so you have a chance to see them open inside Photoshop. And here's our multi-headed being from last week. All right, we're going to colorize the artwork using a gradient layer, so you want to drop down to this black and white icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and then, if you're working on the Mac, just go ahead and press the Option key and left click to bring up the menu. On the PC, you want to press the Alt key and right click in order to keep the menu up on screen, and then go ahead and choose the Gradient command, at which point you'll see the new layer dialog box. I'm going to go ahead and call this guy Rainbow, and then click OK in order to bring up this gradient fill dialog box. Now, in my case, it's defaulting to a black to transparent fill. You may see something different, but in any event, you want to set the style to linear, and then for now just go ahead and set the angle to zero degrees. Now I'll click on this gradient bar in order to bring up the gradient editor dialog box. The reason this gradient fades like it does is because this guy right here, this opacity stop, is set to 0%. I don't want that, so I'll just drag that guy away from the gradient ramp, at which point my screen goes black. But we can change that by dialing in a few colors here. And so I'm going to double-click on this first color stop, which is below the gradient bar, by the way. And notice my hue value is set to zero degrees. That's exactly what I want, 'cause I want this to be red. And so I'll just set the saturation and brightness values to 100%, and then I'll click OK. All right, now I'm going to end my gradient over here by double-clicking on the right-hand color stop, and I'll change the hue value to 270 degrees, so this is going to be a violet, and I'm going to raise the saturation and brightness values both to 100%, like so. All right, now we need to add a total of three more colors. So I'll click right about there, and I actually want the location down here at the bottom of the dialog box to be 25%. And so I'll just drag it into position and then I'll double-click on it, and the only change I need to make is to set the hue value to 30%, and then I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac. Now I'll click down below once again until I get a location of 50%. I'll double-click on this guy in order to bring up the color picker, and I'll change the huge value to 120 degrees, which is green, which is a very bright green, and then I'll click OK. And finally, I'll click around this area, looking for a location value of 75%, and I'll double click on the color stop, and I'll change the hue value to 210 degrees, which is a kind of blue. At which point, we'll go ahead and click OK to accept that change, and I'll do it again, unless, however, you want to go ahead and name your gradient. You may want to. Just go ahead and call it Rainbow or something like that, and then click on the New button, and you will create yourself a new gradient. At which point click OK now in order to return to the gradient fill dialog box. And then I'm just going to go head and click OK yet again in order to hide all the dialog boxes so that I can change the blend mode from normal, which is just going to cover up those faces, not to color, because that's going to make the colors too intense, but rather to hue so that we're maintaining the original saturation values. Now, that looks a little bit drab to me, so I'm going to drop back down here to this black white icon. Again, you Macintosh people, Option + Left Click. On the PC, Alt + Right Click and choose Vibrance this time around, and I'll call this Upsat. And then I'll press Shift + Tab in order to select the first value here inside the Properties panel, and then I'll tab to the saturation value and press Shift + Up Arrow until I achieve a value of plus 30, at which point I'll go ahead and hide the Properties panel. All right, now that I can better see what I'm doing here, I want to adjust my gradient layer. And so I'm just going to double-click on that thumbnail right there inside the Layers panel to return to the gradient fill dialog box, and I'll click in the scale value and press Shift + Down Arrow in order to reduce the size of that gradient so that it's covering a smaller area, and that way we'll see a lot of the red over here in the left face and a lot of the violet over here in the purple one. And then I'll Shift + Tab back to the angle value and I just decided to change it to negative 30 degrees, like so. At which point I'll click OK to accept that change. And that is at least one way to take a bunch of repeating faces and turn them into rainbow faces here inside Photoshop. If you're a member of LinkedIn Learning, I have a followup movie in which we restore the original coloring of the ruby red lips. Looking forward to next week? Well, that's when things get that much more interesting. Am I trying to make a point here? Like peace, love, rainbows? Maybe, but really, "Deke's Techniques", each and every week, keep watching.

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