Tutorial #5: Rose in yellow light
This tutorial was requested by lover_of_narnia at the Ask the Maker meme.
With Photoshop CS4, we'll be doing this:
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For this tutorial, I'm assuming you know your way around Photoshop a bit, but if you don't or if anything's unclear, let me know and I'll explain it better. :)
We start with this screencap by emmahyphenjane at killcolor.
I cropped the picture and then used the smudge tool to extend the background upwards:
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I duplicated this layer and set it to Auto Contrast (Image > Auto Contrast):
I duplicated this layer and set it to soft light:
I created a new layer between the base and the soft light layer and painted on it with a soft round brush (17 pixels) in an off-white colour at an opacity of around 25%. I painted around Rose's face and shoulder to highlight her. Because it's difficult to see, I've added a black color fill layer so you can see where I painted:
I duplicated this layer, both layers at 100% opacity. The icon now looks like this:
I created a Curves layer on top of all the layers with one point in the RGB channel. The point settings are: Output: 162 Input: 116.
I then created a new Vibrance layer in which I upped the vibrance to 64% to enhance the contrast and bring out the colours already present in the icon:
This icon was created for a challenge in which the theme was 'yellow', so I wanted this icon to bathe in yellow light. I like colouring with textures, so that's what I was going to do.
I added these textures by misarte and this texture by noisettee. I put the first one underneath the Vibrance layer, set it to soft light and created a layer mask to (slightly) erase the parts I didn't like over her face and back.
I set the second texture by misarte on top of the Vibrance layer to color burn at 45%, again masking the parts over her face because they were unflattering.
The texture by noisettee was put on top of that and put to multiply at 62%. I used the smudge tool to fade the yellow squiggly thing in the right upper corner of the original texture.
My layer palette now looked like this and the icon like this:
On top of all this, I added a new Brightness/Contrast layer, putting the brightness at 20 and the contrast at 8:
The last texture I added was this one. I'm pretty sure it was originally a texture by innocent_lexys, but I altered it too much to be certain which one it was, she has many of those beautiful yellow textures.
I set this to color burn at 55%:
Finally, I created a Selective color layer and upped the reds:
Cyan: -15 | Yellow: +11 | Black: +14
My layer palette now looks like this for the final icon and then I went back to the base and the soft light layer to smooth some rough edges with the blur tool and/or put a slight Gaussian blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur) on the soft light layer like I always do.
The end result is this:
Thoughts? Questions? Things that are unclear? Please leave a comment. :)
With Photoshop CS4, we'll be doing this:
-->
For this tutorial, I'm assuming you know your way around Photoshop a bit, but if you don't or if anything's unclear, let me know and I'll explain it better. :)
We start with this screencap by emmahyphenjane at killcolor.
I cropped the picture and then used the smudge tool to extend the background upwards:
>
I duplicated this layer and set it to Auto Contrast (Image > Auto Contrast):
I duplicated this layer and set it to soft light:
I created a new layer between the base and the soft light layer and painted on it with a soft round brush (17 pixels) in an off-white colour at an opacity of around 25%. I painted around Rose's face and shoulder to highlight her. Because it's difficult to see, I've added a black color fill layer so you can see where I painted:
I duplicated this layer, both layers at 100% opacity. The icon now looks like this:
I created a Curves layer on top of all the layers with one point in the RGB channel. The point settings are: Output: 162 Input: 116.
I then created a new Vibrance layer in which I upped the vibrance to 64% to enhance the contrast and bring out the colours already present in the icon:
This icon was created for a challenge in which the theme was 'yellow', so I wanted this icon to bathe in yellow light. I like colouring with textures, so that's what I was going to do.
I added these textures by misarte and this texture by noisettee. I put the first one underneath the Vibrance layer, set it to soft light and created a layer mask to (slightly) erase the parts I didn't like over her face and back.
I set the second texture by misarte on top of the Vibrance layer to color burn at 45%, again masking the parts over her face because they were unflattering.
The texture by noisettee was put on top of that and put to multiply at 62%. I used the smudge tool to fade the yellow squiggly thing in the right upper corner of the original texture.
My layer palette now looked like this and the icon like this:
On top of all this, I added a new Brightness/Contrast layer, putting the brightness at 20 and the contrast at 8:
The last texture I added was this one. I'm pretty sure it was originally a texture by innocent_lexys, but I altered it too much to be certain which one it was, she has many of those beautiful yellow textures.
I set this to color burn at 55%:
Finally, I created a Selective color layer and upped the reds:
Cyan: -15 | Yellow: +11 | Black: +14
My layer palette now looks like this for the final icon and then I went back to the base and the soft light layer to smooth some rough edges with the blur tool and/or put a slight Gaussian blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur) on the soft light layer like I always do.
The end result is this:
Thoughts? Questions? Things that are unclear? Please leave a comment. :)