maker activity (no. 25)

[bussbuss]

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[daynawashere]

21. That made the stem less green again, so let's do some Color Balance this time, masked so it's just on the stem. Result.

22. I want her dress to be more blue, so I picked a royal blue (#0d4291) and painted over the straps of her dress on a new layer, set to Color 40% Opacity. Result.

23. New layer. Clone Stamp (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-E). Desaturate, and Gaussian Blur however much you like. I did it with a radius of 10. This layer is going to increase the contrast, but I already think her hair is dark enough, so I erased this layer from her hair. Set the layer to Soft Light

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24. Almost done, I promise! Again, because it was for this challenge where it was supposed be really bright and light, I wanted to take the colouring a bit further. I picked a dark brown colour (#170e00) and set it to Screen, 100% Opacity. Result.

25. Then I picked a dark blue (#000217) and also set it to Screen, 100%. Result.

26. All this colouring has made the background really pixelly, so I copy-merged on a new layer (Ctrl-Shift-Alt-E) and used the blur tool to smooth out the background.


27. And, last step, increasing the contrast. With a new Hue/Saturation/Lightness adjustment layer, make Saturation -100 and set it to Soft Light. Resize to 100x100 and you're done.



And here's the link to the PSD again, because this probably made very little sense. Anyway, hope you find it useful? :)

Edit: Looking at the final icon again, I think I might have boosted the Vibrance one more time but forgot to save that in the PSD and therefore forgot it from the tutorial. This is basically it, though :P

[erzsebet]

Thank you so much for doing this! I never would have thought to change the Vibrancy layer to Color, or to play around with the Clone Stamp tool, so I'll definitely have to play around with this! :D