8D BLENDING TO -PLAIN- BACKGROUND.
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This tutorial does not teach you coloring, just the technique of blending it into the bg, I guess.
What should I tag this if it's not about coloring, mihaa?
Start off with your base 8D this was originally TAN!YeSung but...that wouldn't work out too well so I gave it a black and white gradient map layer.
My tutorials should be predictable already. Duplicate base, set to SCREEN 100%.
Duplicate base again, set it to MULTIPLY 70%.
It looks a little more...flat?IDK. But the blacks are darkened and the whites are toned down. Make a new CURVES layer and give it the following settings:
point 1:76, 46
point 2: 152, 156
topright point: 255, 235
New CURVES layer to make the blacks more gray 8D
bottomleft point: 0, 53
1st point: 115, 105
2ns point: 197, 194
Erasing some of the image so that it blends well in the end. I didn't -really- erase it, I took the eyedropper tool and clicked on the background color, made a new layer, then used that color and a big soft brush with low opacity (62 is good) to color some of YeSung's face off.
I wanted to get rid of some of the highlights, so I made everything more gray by making a new, normal layer and filling it with a dark gray, like #d5d5d5. Set this layer to DARKEN. Darken makes the white parts this color.
Texture time 8D
Take this texture and set it to MULTIPLY 100%.
Some more grayness to add since the texture itself is a purplish-gray. Make a new layer and fill it with a very light gray, like #ebebeb. Set this layer to MULTIPLY 70%.
Now to lighten it 8D
Make a new CURVES layer and give it the following settings:
1st point: 87, 108
2nd point: 128, 165
~And that's it, you're done!
Some more examples:
These are plain ones with just blending into the background. Like in this tutorial, you can always add textures depending on your image~~
Would anyone want me to make a master icon tutorial including how to make good crops/coloring/textures?:c Y/N?