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ivadesign — dreamy pastel effect tutorial

Published: 2010-03-18 17:07:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 112953; Favourites: 3803; Downloads: 3597
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Description Lately, a lot of people have been asking me how I edit my photos, so I decided to make a tutorial.
It's rather simple and I hope that those of you who wondered what I do to my photos will find it useful.

EDIT: In the third step I forgot to write filter>blur>gaussian blur

If you use this tutorial it'd be nice if you credited me. Also, feel free to post links to your photos edited with the help of this tutorial, I'd love to see them

Thank you for the DD


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Comments: 358

ivadesign In reply to ??? [2011-12-06 10:45:01 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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NebetSeta In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 16:35:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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XxKraitxX In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 16:32:36 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful tutorial! Thanks for making this.

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ivadesign In reply to XxKraitxX [2011-12-06 10:45:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Milena-Zaremba In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 16:10:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Andrei120 [2011-12-05 14:25:30 +0000 UTC]

Good tutorial

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ivadesign In reply to Andrei120 [2011-12-06 10:45:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Andrei120 In reply to ivadesign [2011-12-06 12:04:16 +0000 UTC]

Yes! You are welcome

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Zaichick In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 14:23:27 +0000 UTC]

absolutely beautiful I can't wait to try it! congrats on the DD!

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ivadesign In reply to Zaichick [2011-12-06 10:45:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Zaichick In reply to ivadesign [2011-12-06 14:22:00 +0000 UTC]

welcome!

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MadeByRona [2011-12-05 13:53:25 +0000 UTC]

Well done and congrats with your DD!

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ivadesign In reply to MadeByRona [2011-12-06 10:45:20 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Nena902NJ [2011-12-05 13:06:48 +0000 UTC]

This is wonderful!

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ivadesign In reply to Nena902NJ [2011-12-06 10:44:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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ChantalduPlessis In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 12:55:36 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! I love good tutorials

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ivadesign In reply to ChantalduPlessis [2011-12-06 10:44:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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ambientdream In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 12:50:45 +0000 UTC]

thank you! I love this!

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ivadesign In reply to ambientdream [2011-12-06 10:44:44 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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CopperColour In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 11:17:50 +0000 UTC]

Thank you and congratulations.

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ivadesign In reply to CopperColour [2011-12-06 10:44:35 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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unfinishedtears In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 09:11:53 +0000 UTC]

Definitely helpful! My photos are rather boring. Thanks!

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phoenixleo In reply to ??? [2011-12-05 08:20:05 +0000 UTC]

Glad to see this being featured!
Congratulations on the DD!

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ivadesign In reply to phoenixleo [2011-12-06 10:44:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Ideenkotze [2011-12-02 05:59:28 +0000 UTC]

arghdjfdf I hate your tutorial!

Not because its not good but because your picture already looks so awesome that I think I failed every time I tried just because my flowers dont look as mythical as yours ):
I will keep trying!
thanks for sharing it!

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ivadesign In reply to Ideenkotze [2011-12-06 10:44:09 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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KoRn-sTaR60291 In reply to ??? [2011-11-23 14:24:04 +0000 UTC]

Oh dear. This is amazing.

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ivadesign In reply to KoRn-sTaR60291 [2011-12-06 10:43:39 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Elderweiss In reply to ??? [2011-10-18 07:49:01 +0000 UTC]

WOW what a simple yet awesome tutorial/technique! Thanks!

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ivadesign In reply to Elderweiss [2011-10-21 10:42:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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StemmyBotanist In reply to ??? [2011-09-28 00:01:10 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful technique! I'm trying it out on some of my pictures (as well as your soft bright colors tutorial), and it obviously doesn't look quite as good since I'm using GIMP and don't have the selective color menu option, but still very helpful. I've been trying to figure out how people get the pastels for some time now.

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Tsuruko-san In reply to ??? [2011-09-17 08:26:43 +0000 UTC]

Hi! I use your tutorial! This is my art: [link]

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MookieKid In reply to ??? [2011-09-03 11:17:28 +0000 UTC]

thank you for sharing!!!

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MookieKid In reply to MookieKid [2011-09-05 08:41:35 +0000 UTC]

...and used it here (with some little changes) [link]

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ashmarie31 In reply to ??? [2011-09-03 00:44:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for doing this tutorial, it was very helpful. I think my photos look so much better

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Elillustrated In reply to ??? [2011-08-29 20:39:36 +0000 UTC]

I used this here: [link] !!

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Nefertiray In reply to ??? [2011-08-29 16:44:44 +0000 UTC]

great! thank you for this wonderful tutorial!

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wairua [2011-08-18 02:47:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks,
these are very helpful as I am just starting to dabble abit with my photos in a photo program

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Xibalbiana In reply to ??? [2011-08-04 08:42:49 +0000 UTC]

Nice tutorial, thanks!
I used it for this: [link]

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WyldAngel [2011-07-26 22:12:02 +0000 UTC]

Used your tutorial for this ^.^ [link]

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Mazarde In reply to ??? [2011-07-18 18:11:24 +0000 UTC]

Great ! Thank you, I'll have a try with my next shots !

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mochila In reply to ??? [2011-07-09 23:40:05 +0000 UTC]

What a great take! Thanks for sharing!!

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H-ipe [2011-06-28 20:33:16 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much for sharing your techniques, your work is really inspirational! .. so I tried some of your tricks on my photo here: [link]

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fortheworld In reply to ??? [2011-06-19 20:31:55 +0000 UTC]

I edited a photograph using some of these methods: [link] Thank you very much. I linked to this deviation.

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unmerwe [2011-06-06 00:24:47 +0000 UTC]

nice job! Thanks!

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Capricuario In reply to ??? [2011-06-03 03:27:33 +0000 UTC]

I tried again, thank you so much [link]

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DeathInTheReaper [2011-05-25 03:50:32 +0000 UTC]

This one is really neat, I like this very much so I'll be saving it for future reference.

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Nishaja In reply to ??? [2011-05-03 16:03:18 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for that great tutorial

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LRFitch In reply to ??? [2011-04-26 12:21:11 +0000 UTC]

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing

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Vocatus [2011-04-21 07:47:21 +0000 UTC]

Really like this Great technique, clearly explained - thanks for posting!

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