#75 - A tutorial!!
this tutorial was requested by adriftingsea
First, I'll start off with with an apology for taking so long. I mean seriously, this took a very long time to write for multiple reasons. I've actually written this tutorial like five times but kept losing it! UGH. But anyway, here it is!
First off, I started by cropping the image into the size I wanted. Here is a similarly colored screencap because I don't have the original :(
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I went from the first (the original form of the cap - why the hell is it so dark!?) to the second by adjusting the channel mixer and color balance levels.
Color Balance levels:
Channel Mixer:
Then, this weird green thing:
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Then, I added my brightness/contrast and curves layers:
to yield:
I then added textures and a duplicate of the previous steps stamped with different settings to start getting the color of the icon.
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screen @ 83 and soft light @ 100 x2 respectively
MORE BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST!
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YASS, it's coming together! I then colored Hook's face more peachy to bring the color out.
+ peach coloring set on overlay @100 --->
Then I added a texture that looks to be absolutelybatty's (this one perhaps?) set to soft light @ 100
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Then, I stamped all layers and set the stamped layer to hard light @ 53%
+ hard light stamped layer ---->
Then I stamped all the layers (yes, I love stamping - it's control-shift-alt-e on a PC and even though I have a mac, I can't remember the keystrokes for PS on mac) and tilited it
+ tilt ---->
And yeah, the icon is pretty much done. Just some last minute touches!
I added a warming filter (85) at 25% density photo filter and erased a lot of it. Then, I stamped and sharpened it.
+ photo filter + sharpen ---->
And then I stamped one more time, set it to softlight and erased up the face a little just to bring out the colors
+ stamped layer set to soft light ---->
AND WE ARE DONE!!!
We went from
to
If you have any questions, drop me a comment!
Please do not copy this tutorial exactly and use this for learning purposes :)