Sylar tutorial
Yet another tutorial, just coz I can.
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I’m not entirely sure how this works with other images as I haven’t actually tried it much.
Step 1. Crop your image. Try to make sure there is plenty of space around your subject.
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Step 2. Sharpen you base if need be. Create a layer below your image and fill it with a colour as close to the background colour as you can get. I used #46736B. Using the smudge tool, blend the line at the top of your image into the colour fill layer.
Merge all.
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Step 3. Duplicate your image and set it to Screen.
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Step 4. Create a new layer and fill it with #1F0000 set it to Exclusion 100%.
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Step 5. Create another new layer and fill it this time with #BFC122 on Darken 30%.
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Step 6. Make a Selective Color layer with these settings:
R: -100, 0, +100, +100
Y: -100, 0, +100, +100
G: -32, -9, +20, 0
C: +100, 0, -100, +100
N: -16, -3, +7, 0
B: 0, 0, 0, +10
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Step 7. Make yet another layer flood filled with #CC423B and set it to Soft Light 72%.
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Step 8. Now for some textures! First I used this texture from unmasked_icons on Difference 100%. Then I erased the texture over the person because it looked far too dark.
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Step 9. Next I used this texture from distractiions and set it to Multiply 75%.
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Step 10. My icon looked a bit dark so I filled a new layer with white (#FFFFFF) and set it to Soft Light 85%. Then, lowering the opacity on my eraser I erased a little bit over the person.
DONE!
PSD can be downloaded here.