Mancalahour o14 yet another tutorial!
Icon making wasn't working for me tonight, so I decided to do another tutorial, requested by capelle over at ask the maker 2.0. Let me preface this by saying that it's not exact, because I don't save PSDs (usually) and the icon is several months old, so my style has changed since then. So this is the best recreation I could come up with. Hopefully it's close enough for capelle! ♥
I'm using PS CS5, tutorial includes both selective coloring and variations. Consider yourselves warned! It's also fairly simple, if you know your way around photoshop.
01. Using THIS CAP (apologies, I have no idea where I got my misfits caps. They've been on my hard drive for a long time!), I drag it onto a new 100x100 canvas, and then I use the free transform tool (Edit >> Free Transform) holding down Shift and resize and rotated it a bit.
This icon was created for marcasite's British TV Technical Challenge, the prompt was Close Crop. I would have gone even closer, but I thought her fingers and cigarette added a little something extra, like visual depth and sort of....character representation? Just couldn't crop it out!
02. Duplicate, set to Screen 100%
03. Duplicate again, above the screen layer, set this layer to Soft Light 81%
04. New Vibrance adjustment layer, +60 vibrance.
05. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E (this copies and pastes merged). I use Gaussian Blur on this layer at 6.5 radius. I create a layer mask for this layer, and use a medium gray soft brush to brush over most of Kelly except for her hand and the edges of her hair. Then I use a darker brush and brush again over most of her face and some of her hair. Full black brush one more time over the details of her face and the lighter, more prominent parts of her hair.
I do this because Misfits uses a blur filter relatively often in their show, so that the subjects, or parts of them, are in focus, and the rest is just a little fuzzy. So I use this method in a lot of Misfits icons because I feel it expresses the feeling of the show best. Also, her fingers are naturally out of focus, so it wouldn't make much sense to try to bring them into focus with PS. That probably wouldn't look too great.
Before the blur layer.
After the blur layer.
Not a huge difference, but whatever ;).
06. New Color Balance adjustment layer.
Shadows: +15, -3, +6
Midtones: +15, -20, -13
Highlights: -16, -1, +10
07. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E again. Image >> Adjustments >> Variations. The little slider is one mark LEFT of center.
Shadows: Yellow x2, Red
Midtones: Yellow, Red
Highlights: Blue x4, Cyan x2
- Gaussian Blur this layer at 0.5 radius, set to Soft Light 30%.
08. New Color Fill layer: #2b231f set to Screen 66%. Move this layer UNDER the layer in the last step.
09. New Color Balance adjustment layer.
Shadows: +5, 0, 0
Highlights: -10, 0, +15
10. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E again. Image >> Adjustments >> Variations. Slider in the same place as before. Make sure you click the little image that says ORIGINAL in the upper left hand corner. Always do this when you're using variations, or it will use the settings you used last.
Shadows: Red, Magenta
Midtones: Cyan, Yellow
Shadows: Yellow x2, Red
Lighter x1
- Same layer, Image >> Adjustments >> Vibrance, Vibrance 100%. Set layer to Screen, 25%.
11. Light and Dark blobs, blurred, set to Soft Light 55%. You guys will have to experiment here for yourselves, because I don't know how to accurately show my light blobs with transparancies.
12. New Selective Color adjustment layer.
Reds
cyan -20
yellow +25
black -6
Neutrals
yellow -7
black +6
Blacks
cyan -2
black -1
13. New Color Balance adjustment layer.
Shadows: 0, 0, -9
Highlights: -6, 0, +19
14. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E. Filter >> Sharpen >> Sharpen, Edit >> Fade Sharpen 55%. Then I masked out the parts I wanted to stay blurry, like her hand, and the lower right and top left corners.
Et Voila! Here's what my layer palette looks like when I'm finished:
And to kill two birds with one stone, check out TurboRumble! Wanna join me in my first round?
Rules & Information | Round 6 Sign Ups | Round 6 Themes | Round 6 Submissions
1. Comments are ♥.
2. This tutorial is for instructional? purposes only. Please don't recreate this icon and claim as your own.
3. watch/join?
I'm using PS CS5, tutorial includes both selective coloring and variations. Consider yourselves warned! It's also fairly simple, if you know your way around photoshop.
01. Using THIS CAP (apologies, I have no idea where I got my misfits caps. They've been on my hard drive for a long time!), I drag it onto a new 100x100 canvas, and then I use the free transform tool (Edit >> Free Transform) holding down Shift and resize and rotated it a bit.
This icon was created for marcasite's British TV Technical Challenge, the prompt was Close Crop. I would have gone even closer, but I thought her fingers and cigarette added a little something extra, like visual depth and sort of....character representation? Just couldn't crop it out!
02. Duplicate, set to Screen 100%
03. Duplicate again, above the screen layer, set this layer to Soft Light 81%
04. New Vibrance adjustment layer, +60 vibrance.
05. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E (this copies and pastes merged). I use Gaussian Blur on this layer at 6.5 radius. I create a layer mask for this layer, and use a medium gray soft brush to brush over most of Kelly except for her hand and the edges of her hair. Then I use a darker brush and brush again over most of her face and some of her hair. Full black brush one more time over the details of her face and the lighter, more prominent parts of her hair.
I do this because Misfits uses a blur filter relatively often in their show, so that the subjects, or parts of them, are in focus, and the rest is just a little fuzzy. So I use this method in a lot of Misfits icons because I feel it expresses the feeling of the show best. Also, her fingers are naturally out of focus, so it wouldn't make much sense to try to bring them into focus with PS. That probably wouldn't look too great.
Before the blur layer.
After the blur layer.
Not a huge difference, but whatever ;).
06. New Color Balance adjustment layer.
Shadows: +15, -3, +6
Midtones: +15, -20, -13
Highlights: -16, -1, +10
07. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E again. Image >> Adjustments >> Variations. The little slider is one mark LEFT of center.
Shadows: Yellow x2, Red
Midtones: Yellow, Red
Highlights: Blue x4, Cyan x2
- Gaussian Blur this layer at 0.5 radius, set to Soft Light 30%.
08. New Color Fill layer: #2b231f set to Screen 66%. Move this layer UNDER the layer in the last step.
09. New Color Balance adjustment layer.
Shadows: +5, 0, 0
Highlights: -10, 0, +15
10. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E again. Image >> Adjustments >> Variations. Slider in the same place as before. Make sure you click the little image that says ORIGINAL in the upper left hand corner. Always do this when you're using variations, or it will use the settings you used last.
Shadows: Red, Magenta
Midtones: Cyan, Yellow
Shadows: Yellow x2, Red
Lighter x1
- Same layer, Image >> Adjustments >> Vibrance, Vibrance 100%. Set layer to Screen, 25%.
11. Light and Dark blobs, blurred, set to Soft Light 55%. You guys will have to experiment here for yourselves, because I don't know how to accurately show my light blobs with transparancies.
12. New Selective Color adjustment layer.
Reds
cyan -20
yellow +25
black -6
Neutrals
yellow -7
black +6
Blacks
cyan -2
black -1
13. New Color Balance adjustment layer.
Shadows: 0, 0, -9
Highlights: -6, 0, +19
14. Ctrl + Shift + Alt + E. Filter >> Sharpen >> Sharpen, Edit >> Fade Sharpen 55%. Then I masked out the parts I wanted to stay blurry, like her hand, and the lower right and top left corners.
Et Voila! Here's what my layer palette looks like when I'm finished:
And to kill two birds with one stone, check out TurboRumble! Wanna join me in my first round?
Rules & Information | Round 6 Sign Ups | Round 6 Themes | Round 6 Submissions
1. Comments are ♥.
2. This tutorial is for instructional? purposes only. Please don't recreate this icon and claim as your own.
3. watch/join?