Tutorial - Olivia Wilde;;

[nightcomes]

this was also requested by a couple of people from this batch.


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made in PSCS2. translatable!! involves curves, colour fills and colour balance



Start off with your base. Now, this bast isn't too dark so I didn't feel the need for a screen layer but yours might. It ALL depends on your image.
Make a curves adjustment latyer.
RGB: 125:145
this brightens it up a bit with not overdoing it.

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Fill a layer with #d4b574 and set it to soft light

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Make a colour balance adjustment layer.
Midtones: 0,-23,-48
Highlights: -16,0,+35

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Fill a layer with #cfe1e7 and set it to colour burn

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Fill another layer with #9be5ff and set it to colour burn

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**You may not need two colour burn layers or you may need more. Play with it and maybe change the shade of blue around :)

Make a curves adjustment layer.
BLUE: 165:167 and 114:82

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and you are finished!!
Oh, and after colouring I usually go back to the screen layer and sharpen it [in this case the base] and then fade sharpen by 50% or lower.

other icons made with this technique or similar








I hope it was easy to understand! Id love to see your results!
and don't forget to play with settings! Every picture is different.
download the PSD HERE