|tutorial: sam & ruby
Last tutorial! :)
As requested by thememoryslides
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Made in Photoshop CS3
Uses Selective Color, so may not be translatable
Sam and Ruby from 4.09 'I Know What You did Last Summer'.
First step's always the same, I pasted my image full size into a 200x200 square and used Free-Transform to crop it. I then resized to 100x100 and this my base.
Duplicated my base and set it to Screen and then duplicated the Screen layer three more times. I then added a Curves layer for added brightness and contrast, adjusting the settings on the RGB channel only.
my curves layer
It got a little washed out, so I duplicated my base, dragged it to the top and set it to Soft Light at 100% opacity.
Layer => New Adjustment Layer => Color Balance. I adjusted the settings in Midtones only, increasing the value in Cyan-Red, increasing the value in Magenta-Green and increasing the value just slightly in Yellow-Blue.
Layer => New Adjustment Layer => Levels. To add more contrast.
RGB
0 | 0,76 | 255
Layer => New Adjustment Layer => Selective Color. I increased the Blacks in the Red channel only.
It was still a little too washed out for my liking, so I went down to my Soft Light layer and changed it to Overlay. I also deleted one of the Screen layers. I wanted to give the icon a lot more color, so between my Selective Color layer and my Levels layer, I added Layer => New Adjustment Layer => Hue/Saturation and increased it to @ +10. I also decided to add some light to the image, so I created a new layer between my Overlay layer and the Curves layer, selected a large round hard brush at @ 29px and added a few blobs here and there. I then blurred the blobs with Gaussian blur at @ a 10px radius.
I pressed CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E to stamp all of my layers and create a new base. I used Filter => Blur => Gaussian Blur at @ a 10px radius. I set this to Hard Light at @ 33% opacity. CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E again. And then Filter => Sharpen => Sharpen. I faded the sharpen to @ 30%. I also added another Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and increased it slightly to @ +5.
Next, I grabbed a grid texture. I'm not sure which one exactly, but this one by lemonpunch is pretty similar. I desaturated the texture (SHIFT+CTRL+U) and then inverted it (CTRL+I) so the background of the texture was black and the grid lines were white. I then pasted the texture onto the icon and set it to Screen at 100% opacity, erasing the parts of the texture that were covering Sam and Ruby's faces.
Last, I added this texture (not sure who it's by) and set it Screen at @ 10% opacity. And our icon is finished.
Credits
organza ~ for tips from this tutorial
Sam and Ruby screencap ~ HomeoftheNutty.com
Please use this tutorial as a guide. I do not include PSD's with my tutorials. Thank you. :)
As requested by thememoryslides
to
Made in Photoshop CS3
Uses Selective Color, so may not be translatable
Sam and Ruby from 4.09 'I Know What You did Last Summer'.
First step's always the same, I pasted my image full size into a 200x200 square and used Free-Transform to crop it. I then resized to 100x100 and this my base.
Duplicated my base and set it to Screen and then duplicated the Screen layer three more times. I then added a Curves layer for added brightness and contrast, adjusting the settings on the RGB channel only.
my curves layer
It got a little washed out, so I duplicated my base, dragged it to the top and set it to Soft Light at 100% opacity.
Layer => New Adjustment Layer => Color Balance. I adjusted the settings in Midtones only, increasing the value in Cyan-Red, increasing the value in Magenta-Green and increasing the value just slightly in Yellow-Blue.
Layer => New Adjustment Layer => Levels. To add more contrast.
RGB
0 | 0,76 | 255
Layer => New Adjustment Layer => Selective Color. I increased the Blacks in the Red channel only.
It was still a little too washed out for my liking, so I went down to my Soft Light layer and changed it to Overlay. I also deleted one of the Screen layers. I wanted to give the icon a lot more color, so between my Selective Color layer and my Levels layer, I added Layer => New Adjustment Layer => Hue/Saturation and increased it to @ +10. I also decided to add some light to the image, so I created a new layer between my Overlay layer and the Curves layer, selected a large round hard brush at @ 29px and added a few blobs here and there. I then blurred the blobs with Gaussian blur at @ a 10px radius.
I pressed CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E to stamp all of my layers and create a new base. I used Filter => Blur => Gaussian Blur at @ a 10px radius. I set this to Hard Light at @ 33% opacity. CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+E again. And then Filter => Sharpen => Sharpen. I faded the sharpen to @ 30%. I also added another Hue/Saturation adjustment layer and increased it slightly to @ +5.
Next, I grabbed a grid texture. I'm not sure which one exactly, but this one by lemonpunch is pretty similar. I desaturated the texture (SHIFT+CTRL+U) and then inverted it (CTRL+I) so the background of the texture was black and the grid lines were white. I then pasted the texture onto the icon and set it to Screen at 100% opacity, erasing the parts of the texture that were covering Sam and Ruby's faces.
Last, I added this texture (not sure who it's by) and set it Screen at @ 10% opacity. And our icon is finished.
Credits
organza ~ for tips from this tutorial
Sam and Ruby screencap ~ HomeoftheNutty.com
Please use this tutorial as a guide. I do not include PSD's with my tutorials. Thank you. :)