Go from This
to this
1. First Crop your base to 100 by 100.Don't Sharpen yet.
2. Duplicate your base twice, Set them both on Screen and at 100% Opacity.
3. Now go to Layer--->New Adjustment Layer--->Selective Color,put in these setting:
So far:
4 now duplicate your base two more time, set the top one at Screen at 100 Opacity and the the other one at Soft light at 100% Opacity
5. Now go to Layer--->New Fill Color--->27023C at exclusion at 100 Opacity
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6. Now go to Layer--->New Adjustment Layer--->Levels, Put In These Setting:
so far:
7. Now go to Layer--->New Adjustment Layer--->Color Balance, Put In These Setting:
Midtones: 9, -9,14
Shadows: -12,16,-13
8. Now go to Layer--->New Adjustment Layer--->Hue/Saturation, Put In These Setting:
Master: 18
9. Merge all Layer.
10. Now Sharpen your new Icon.
11. Now add Border, Brushes, texts, Textures...ect
My Final Outcome:
Possible Outcome:
The Images I used are mine, I capped my own screencaps, You can view my screen caps of Charmed at:
Charmed Screencaps. I dont have all the episode up on my site yet, Include the episode I used for this tutorial.
The Brush "Cry", I found that brush over at Deviantart website, But I dont remember who created it.