A quickly thrown together tutorial just to show the practical applications of Gradient Maps for painting purposes.
I would still do some paint overs or even use multiple gradient maps to get your desired colored effect. But this is a good way of quickly getting a LOT of color experimenting done in like a minute. This is about as close as Photoshop gets to a “make art” button.
I hope you folks find this helpful!
Holy dang you put that together so fast!
Wow.
I don’t usually do a gray-scale version first (it’s sketch —> paint) but for quickly throwing color options out there, this has a LOT of uses. Hell, I may find myself using it at work. Need a coherent theme? Convert your images to grayscale and play with gradient maps. Nifty.






