Green Hornet Tut
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Program: Photoshop CS5
Difficulty: Easy
Translatable: I think so, though it uses selective coloring
Steps: 10
1. Find a screencap and crop it. I took one from the new Green Hornet film and it became this
2. Deciding it was way too dark, I duplicated my base layer and set it to Screen at 100%.
3. This lightened up the image way too much, so the base layer was duplicated again and dragged up to the top and set to Soft Light 100%. This darkens the image and brings about a bit more contrast.
4. I wanted a bit more of a sharper, darker contrast and the Brightness/Contrast layer just didn't work out for me. I ended up duplicating the base layer, setting it to Soft Light 100% and dragging it to the top. That worked perfectly...
5. But the colors bored me and it was a little too difficult to tell that the cabinet was broken. So I did a Color Fill Layer, using #0a1d36, and set it to Exclusion 100%. It takes everything to a sepia tint I'm fairly fond of. You could be finished here if you like and skip down to the text layers, but I wanted to keep playing.
6. I decided that, for this particular icon, there was too much orange that I didn't want and the colors were a little too washed out. I did a Selective Color Layer with the following settings:
Yellows 0, 0, 7, 0
Whites 0, 0, -60, 0
This layer helped turn everything into a natural, pinkish hue that I decided was perfect. But something was still missing, so...
7. First, I typed "OH" And then used the Free Transform tool to tilt the word and place it somewhere it seemed to suit. "SHIT" was typed next and angled in the same way as "OH" had been. I then changed the Font color to #093107 as this is a picture of the Green Hornet. Since it looked pretty boring, I set it to Vivid Light 100%. This brought in some black to the green and just made it look cool.
8. It wasn't quite cool enough, though. It didn't have a lot of depth, so I changed the Layer Style. Since "SHIT" was bigger, I used that. First, I added the Bevel and Emboss, changing the Technique to Chisel Hard. Everything else was left at it's original settings.
9. At this point, I decided that they looked perfect, but it was hard to see them. I tried Stroke and didn't like it and Shadow failed, too. Finally, I clicked Outer Glow and left it at the default settings. It was perfect, so I copied the layer style and pasted it onto "OH".
10. Almost. Now they could be seen too well, but reducing the Outer Glow looked ugly and nothing else worked. I ended up placing both text layers beneath the second Soft Light layer (step 4).
And that's it~
I hope it was useful and I'd love to see what anyone does with this!