Posted on January 20, 2009 - by Khaled

Create a cool frog in just 3 steps with Photoshop

Another quick photoshop tutorial…So do you remember this fella?

If you were a regular reader of this blog when it used to be called “No relation” then you will recognize this frog as it was on the header. You can download the full resolution stock photo from sxc.hu for free. I will quickly show you in 3 steps how to turn this plain ordinary frog into a cool one! Ok first of all let’s change the eyes color to something more attractive and exotic! what about pink?

Step 1 : Eyes color

Start with the selection of the eyes with the elliptical marquee tool.

Now we’re going to add a new adjustment layer to tweak the Hue/saturation of the eyes.

Set the hue/saturation to the following values:

Of course by setting the hue value differently you can have a different eyes color. Just choose what you like!

Step 2 : Body color

Ok don’t deselect just inverse the selection (ctrl+shift+I). Add a new adjustment layer of Brightness and contrast: set brightness to +30 and contrast to +25.

Now as you see the colors are a lot more lively and nicer to see!

Step 3 : Final touches

Ok use the Burn tool (brush 35px, Range: Midtones; Exposure: 30%) and darken the shadow and the lower parts of the frog. You may want to use the dodge tool to add some brightness to the eyes. The final result will look like this:

I hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial. If you need more details about the steps just let me know.