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Sep 18, 2006 15:52

Tutorial requested by gwendalavir

How to go from this
to this




01. Take your base. Don´t crop it yet.



02. Duplicate your base twice and set both to Screen.



03. Select the top layer and go to Image>Adjust>Color Balance. Adjust the following settings:
-Midtones; Cyan-Red -44 / Magenta-Green 0 / Yellow-Blue +100



04. With that same layer selected, go to Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation and set the saturation to +50



05. Now select the bottom layer, just at the top of your base. Go to Image>Adjust> Brightness/Contrast. Set the Brightness to +30 and set the Contrast to +40



06. New layer. Fill it with #000425 and set it to Exclusion (100%)



07. One more layer. Fill it with #C0E9EB and set it to Color Burn (90-100%)



08. Merge all the layers, duplicate that new base and set it to Soft Light (100%)



09. With your top layer selected, go to Image>Adjust>Hue/Saturation and set the saturation to +60.



10. Now you can see our base is too blue. We can fix that with a new Color Balance Layer, and adjusting the following settings:
-Midtones; Cyan/Red +19 / Magenta-Green +15 / Yellow-Blue -20



11. Merge all the layers.

12. Now it´s time to cropping!



13. I added a brush made by myself and set it to Lighten

>>


And you´re done!

This is a very useful technique but sometimes you will need that last Color Balance Layer in order to add some red/yellow to the icon.

Others icons using the same technique:




I'd love to see what you come up with!

You can find my other tutorial here

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