The glow! [TUT]
 

Do you ever have dull Looking Pictures that need a little glow? well here is a tut that does just that.

Starting picture
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...ffddfdfdgd.png

First up open Photoshop with your picture

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...n/638ae66b.png

Use Lab Color
For this affect we will have to use Lab color. Go to Image > Mode > Lab Color.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...-cf3181dd6.jpg

Everything should still look the same. You should have the same layer and you shouldn't notice any color shifts.Well if you look in the Channels palette, we now have access to the individual Lightness, a, or b channels. We'll be using the b channel specifically for this tutorial and that is why we need to use Lab color mode.

Now make a new layer.
We are going to place one of the channels onto the layer so go
Image > Apply Image. and this should pop up. Make it look like mine.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...rbaran/dfg.jpg

You should get something like this

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...aran/dfg-1.png

This is normal now Change the Blending of the layer to Overlay and you should get this
http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...ran/sdfsdf.png

But this is a bit too hard so lower the opacity to 50% and you should get your final product

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o...ran/dfgdfg.png

Now doesn't that look a lot better!

Seems interesting :), good find/guide

+rep

wow awesome guide, gives me more ideas to improve my skills of photoshopping :p

The finished product is like liquid ***.

A tip is Play around with your opacity % it might look better at 90 or at 30

Nice tutorial Lust it makes me want to go back and start photoshoping sigs again.

that does looks allot better nice work :O

looks cooler than b4... when it wus all dull

no nawoo what this does is that it makes it look like a real life image not some picture with a shitty camera that only captures the green you got to see the sunshine..

Where can you find
This is normal now Change the Blending of the layer to Overlay and you should get this ?
Please tell me!