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[kellslawells]

Tutorial!

How to turn this:
into this:




Using PSP 9. Easily translatable.

To begin, I'd like to state that I do not want anyone copying this tutorial with the same screencap and then posting it. I don’t mind following the tutorial exactly to get a feel for the colouring and such, that’s how we learn and then adapt to new things. But if I see this exact icon reproduced, I will not be pleased at all. If you're going to copy it, I don’t mind, just use a different screencap. Thankyou.

For the first portion on the tutorial, I used a colouring method from this tutorial by qtmjbcs

----here start qtmjbcs's tutorial.

First, I cropped my image, as you do, to get this:



Then I duplicated the image 4 times, and set each duplicate to screen.
Your image should look like this:



Then, underneath the top screen layer, I made a new layer and floodfilled with #011537 and set to exclusion.
Then I duplicated that layer. Your image should look like this:



Now, select all (ctrl+A), and copy merged (ctrl+shift+C) then paste your merged icon on top of all existing layers. Set it to softlight.

Now, below your top layer, but above all other layers flood fill a new layer with #a4ddf4 and set it to burn.

Lookie:



-------here end qtmjbcs's part in the tutorial. Thanks to her!!

Now, beneath your softlight layer, floodfill a new layer with #949494. Set it to burn, and duplicate it. Set the duplicated layer to 40%.
And we have:



Now, we move into colour adjustment and other interesting things like that.
Go to layerNew adjustment layerCurves.
Set the values to the following.

RGB



RED



GREEN



BLUE



Looking good:



Now go into layerNew adjustment layerColour Balance

Set the following.

MIDTONES



SHADOWS



Ahhh. Nice.



And that’s it! Youre done!

Your layers palette should look like this:


softlight

Burn 40%

Burn

Screen

Exclusion

Exclusion

Screen

Screen

Screen






Any questions? Im here to answer them.