tutorial VII: the breakfast club

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cherrysunsets asked me for a tutorial for the 'the breakfast club'-icons from this post. so here it is:

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01
crop your picture (mine was a cap by _jems_) and create a new curves adjustment layer with the following settings:

RGB screen
1st (the one that is usually in the lefthand corner):
I:5 | O:3
2nd
I: 52 | O: 111
3rd
I:121 | O:193

Red srceen
1st
I:140 | O:150

Blue srceen
1st
I:107 | O:114
2nd
I:147 | O: 164

02
make a new selective color adjustment layer with these settings (opacity 19%!):

Reds:
-100 | 0 | 0 | 0

Yellows:
-26 | 0 | 0 | 0

Whites:
-100 | 0 | 0 | 0

Neutrals:
-29 | -5 | +16 | +10

03
make a new color balance adjustment layer with the following settings:

Shadows:
-20 | 0 | +9

Midtones:
+5 | -4 | +18

Highlights:
+7 | 0 | -23

04
add a hue/saturation adjustment layer

Reds:
S: -7

05
make another selective color adjustment layer with these settings

Reds:
0 | 0 | +18 | 0

Yellows:
0 | 0 | +26 | 0

Neutrals:
0 | 0 | +3 | -5

06
fill a new layer with #230505 and set it to exclusion (100%)

07
and another color fill layer with #020513 to exclusion (100%)

08
make a 3rd selective color adjustment layer with these settings:

Reds:
-3 | 0 | +18 | +22

Yellows:
-17 | 0 | +21 | -29

Neutrals:
0 | 0 | -3 | +2

09
make a 2nd hue/saturation adjustment layer with this setting:

RGB
S: +2

10
a brightness/contrast adjustment layer with these settings:

B: +11
C: +24

11
one last step: a new color balance adjustment layer with the following settings:

Midtones:
-4 | 0 | +11

Highlights:
-12 | 0 | +14

other icons with this (or a very similar) coloring




- no, this time i won't upload the psd-file just because i think it's important to find out what's behind the technique and not just paste a new cap/pict into it. i hope you understand this.
- i'd love to see what you come up with!