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[lostanotherday]

any advices to get a coloring like in this icon? (by xquisitextreme_)

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[fearkills]

i think really all that was done was curves and a bright glowy ball brush... i usually get coloring similar to that when i use curves.

[lostanotherday]

do you have time to write some curves up? :) I would admire it so much.

[major_flan]

my favorite brightening strategies are as follows:

> you have your base
>> duplicate your base, set the duplicated base to screen
>>> duplicate your base again, drag the duplicated layer to the top and then set the layer to soft light. If the base is still rather dark, you can duplicate the screen layer.

sometimes this does not work so well... so i use ctrl-L (if you have adobe photoshop) and i drag the arrow on the first row all the way to the right, towards the middle (be careful you don't want to be too extreme!)

[lostanotherday]

thank you

[pattinsonism]

This isn't the same but it's as close as I could get..

Duplicate the base image and set it to screen at 100%
Duplicate it again and set it to screen but this time at 54%
Create a new layer and fill it with #0B253B, set it to exclusion at 100%
Create a new colour balance adjustment layer with the settings: 27, 32, 46 on midtones.
And then reate another with the settings: 68, 8, -14, again on midtones

The result:

[lostanotherday]

it looks great, thank you so much for writing and testing that for me :)

[wickedandcruel]

That's a really beautiful coloring. You should ask the maker. I'd love to know how to achieve that.

[lostanotherday]

yeah isn't it? :)
well I asked her once but she didn't answer. it was a long time ago thought.

[amazing_envy]

There was a tutorial with an icon similar to this, but I can't find it right now. XDDD But, since I already made icons with that tut, I played with it and got really close, actually.

(I use PS7, but since you didn't specify what program you're using, I hope this still works.)

> I cropped, sharpened, resized and such. Didn't do the same crop as the original, but that's okay.
> Image > Adjustments > Auto Contrast and Auto Levels
> Duplicated base, set it on Screen 55%
> New layer, filled it with F9AD81 on Multiply 40%
> New layer, filled it with 217B8E on Overlay 44%
> New layer, filled it with FFB3D5 on Overlay 47%
> New layer, filled it with 9CD9FF on Soft Light 64%
> New layer, filled it with 9CD9FF on Color Burn 27%
> New layer, filled it with E6E6E6 on Color Burn 100%
> Added default round brush and I'm done! ;DD

[lostanotherday]

wow thank you, very similar :) oh and I use pspx, sorry I forgot to say it, so I think it works well.
I'll definitaly try to mess around with this. maybe some colorbalance layer added?
thanks again!