Tutorial: Chloe Sullivan x 2

[relyko]

shelly505 was asking for coloring on these two icons by nyonyo, so I tried to recreate them for her.

original:
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:mine


1. Prep the base. Crop, sharpen, whatever. Some people do this at the end, it's really up to you.
2. CURVES: rgb: 56/134
3. COLOR BALANCE: Midtones: 63/0/-48
4. COLOR FILL: #B9B9D0 set to Softlight 100%
5. BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST: 0/10




original:
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:mine
*Looking at them now, I imaging just decreasing the saturation a bit and decreasing the amount of red would fix this up*


1. CURVES: rgb: 130/181
2. COLOR BALANCE: midtones: 27/0/-27
3. COLOR FILL: #f5998c Softlight 100 %
4: NEW LAYER: Using a big, soft brush color in #fdc0b2. example softlight 100%
5: COLOR FILL: #fae7de Multiply 100%
6: GRADIENT: using a solid gradient from #ffffff to #78797c, on Radial, align it to about Chloe's cheek bone. example set to Softlight 50%