⇛ autumn ( nine • my blue heaven )

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OKAY SO, THIS TUTORIAL WAS REQUESTED BY lanvaldear... a long time ago rofl. Sorry for taking so long, first time someone's loved my icons so much to ask for a tutorial. Anyway, here we go! I didn't have the actual psd, so the crop is a bit off but whatever. Will be going from:

this
to this
in Adobe Photoshop CS2. Uses Selective Colouring.

❶ Crop your base.
❷ Make a new Hue/Saturation layer, and set the Saturation input to 42.
❸ Create a new Brightness/Contrast layer, setting the Brightness to 18, and the Contrast to -8.
❹ Make a new Selective Colour layer. Use the following settings:
REDS: -100 +100 +100 0
YELLOWS: -100 +100 +100 +100
CYANS: +100 +100 +100 -52
NEUTRALS: +22 -2 +3 -27

❺ Make a new Colour Fill layer and fill it with #001c46. Set it to Exclusion at 100%.
❻ Make a new Colour Fill layer and fill it with #4f4f4f. Set it to Soft Light at 100%.
❼ Make a new Channel Mixer layer. Use the following settings:
RED: +88 +15 -18
BLUE: -13 0 +100

❽ Make a new layer, and set this texture ( by ??? ) at Soft Light 100%.

Here are some other examples:



And voila! You have a pretty icon. ♥ Remember to experiment and show me your results!