Tutorial #5
Tutorial #5
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Involves Selective Colouring. Made in PhotoShop CS2, but should work in other versions of PS.
Someone asked about the colouring for this icon in the post (can't remember who, sorry!) so I decided to throw together a quick tutorial.
Start off with your image. Crop it the way you like and sharpen if you want. I usually leave that to the end, but that's just me. For this I used a lovely base made by karanna1.
Right, first we're gonna duplicate that layer and set it to Screen, 90% to brighten it up.
Next, duplicate the base layer again and set it to Soft Light 100% for some contrast.
Then go to New fill or adjustment layer, and choose Hue / Saturation. Set Saturation to +8. It doesn't look like it's made a lot of difference, but it does at the end :)
Next, make a solid colour layer filled with #fff468 set to Soft Light, 30%.
We shall fix the fugly with a Selective Colour layer to start bringing out all the colour. Pop these settings in;
Reds: -87, +100, +30, +30
Yellows: -71, +20, +100, -8
Neutrals: +60, +30, -36, -10
Which should leave you with something like this, depending on your image of course;
Now another SC layer to brighten the reds and lighten the blues;
Reds: -70, -7, +81, 0
Yellows: +2, +6, -77, -14
Neutrals: -6, 0, -10, 0
Which will hopefully make it come out like this;
Then the last SC layer (promise);
Cyans: +100, 0, -12, 0
Blues: +95, 0, -22, 0
Whites: +100, 0, -40, 0
Which should leave you with something like this;
Nearly done! Then I took this texture by dusty_memories;
And set it to Multiply 100%. But I decided I wanted it to look a bit darker/grungier, so I duplicated the texture but set it to 26% opacity.
Which gave me this;
Finished :)
Other icons made with a similar colouring;
So, give this a go if you like, and let me know how you get on with it :) Remember to try and be creative with this; experiment! You never know what you might come up with :D
Oh, and if you need help with anything just ask, and I'll try to give you a hand :)
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