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Create a silkscreen look with a limited color palette - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop for Designers: Color
Create a silkscreen look with a limited color palette
- [Instructor] Here's a technique for creating a stylized silk screen look using a very limited color palette. So, I'm going to begin by loading two color fill layers. The first will be the background and the second will be the shape of the building. Solid color, and I want my background to be a hot pink. So I'm going to put in these values for the color. I'm applying my color in the HSB color mode. 280 for the color angle, 31 for the saturation, and 99 for the brightness. I'll click okay to that. Now, for my second color fill layer, I'm going to come to my channels panel, and I have this presaved alpha channel, which I'm going to activate by command clicking on its thumbnail. And we can see there the active selection. Back to my layers panel. Once again, choose solid color, and this time the color will be 42, 43, 87. Now what I want to do is use the photograph to tease out detail, and I want to essentially turn it into a line drawing. I'm going to unlock the background layer and move…
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Create a signature color with selective saturation1m 45s
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Desaturate to create a nostalgic image2m 34s
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Build density in a sky1m 53s
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Save a flat sky1m 29s
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Design with Spot Color3m 42s
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Creative toning with a gradient map3m 1s
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Create a silkscreen look with a limited color palette5m 6s
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Replace colors3m 18s
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Create a consistent look with color lookup tables and layer effects5m 59s
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Match color4m 33s
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