xxvi. tutorial - sookie

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I knew I wanted a close crop, so I started off with this:


This icon was made when I was really paranoid about oversharpening, so I applied a 0.2 gaussian blur to the base to try to prevent it. IDK if it worked or not, so this step is completely optional.


First I wanted to take care of the lighting and contrast, so I used a Brightness/Contrast layer. I didn't want to make things too bright, so I played it safe and only did Brightness (75), Contrast (25).


I wasn't quite sure how I wanted to color things, but I felt that the icon would look best if it had a warm tone, so I applied a color fill layer (7b6444) on soft light.


I had the warm tone I wanted, but things were too dark, so I used Levels to brighten things up.
17 | 1.32 | 193


At this point I'd made up my mind about coloring, and decided to go for a faded/pale coloring. I created a gradient the following gradient and set it to 55% opacity.


1st point: f5f3e3; 2nd point: 000000


I wanted to make sure I didn't lose too much color (thanks to the gradient map) so I added a +15 vibrance layer.


Next I added the following texture (I'm not sure where it came from... but I'm pretty sure it's from slayground) at screen with 50% opacity. I clipped a Levels layer to the texture with the settings: 11, 0.73, 255.



Next I sharpened it (sharpen however you prefer, as even I'm not certain how I sharpened this icon originally).  Then I added the following texture (by me) on soft light at 40%.



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