Paris Icon Tutorial

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Make this icon coloring. Involves Selective Coloring. Photoshop CS3. Not Translatable. .PSD file included.
NOTE: I recently edited this tutorial due to several errors. So I'm sorry if the tutorial did not work for you before.


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00. Prepare your base (Sharpen, crop, etc.)

01. Create a new layer, fill it with the color #bdaf4e. Set it to Soft Light 100%.

02. Now for Selective Coloring. (Go to Layers>New Adjustment Layer>Selective Coloring

REDS: -100, 0, -29, -12
YELLOWS: -100, -100, -100, -100
CYANS: +100, 0, 0, 0
BLUES: +100, 0, 0, 0
WHITES: -18, 0, +30, +8
NEUTRALS: +22, +15, +8, +6

03. Make another Selective Coloring Layer.

REDS: -100, 0, 100, 0
YELLOWS: -76, 0, -100, 0
CYANS: +31, 0, 0, 0
WHITES: -48, 0, 0, 0
NEUTRALS: +7, -12, -9, -6

04. Create a Fill Layer (Layer>New Fill Layer>Solid Color..) and fill it with #030829. Set it to Exclusion at 100%.

05. Make a third Selective Coloring layer.

REDS: -100, 0, 36, 0
YELLOWS: -100, 0, -100, 0
NEUTRALS: +24, 0, -21, 0

06. Create a Brightness/Contrast (Layer>New Adjustment Layer> Brightness/Contrast).

BRIGHTNESS: 0
CONTRAST: +13

07. Make a new Hue/Saturation Layer (Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Hue/Saturation)

MASTER:

HUE: 0
SATURATION: +13
LIGHTNESS: 0

08. Create a Color Balance Layer (Layers>New Adjustment Layer>Color Balance).

MIDTONES: +35, +21, +5
HIGHLIGHTS: -28, +4, +9
SHADOWS: -19, +6, +21
Set this Layer to 60%.
Make sure "Preserve Luminosity" is un-ticked.

09. And finally the Curves Layers (Layers>New Adjustment Layer>Curves).

RGB: Input: 109, Output: 113
REDS: Input: 142, Output: 102
Set this Layer to 46%.

And you're done!

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.PSD FILE