Icon Tutorial from Moonie #1!

[mooniepoo]

Here's an icon tutorial that I made!

From this:
To this:



Icon tutorial

From this:
To this:

Photoshop CS3. Not translatable, probably. Dx

Here are the steps to acheive this coloring!

1. Do whatever to prepare your icon base.
Crop, resize, sharpen...etc.

2. Create new fill layer
LAYER > NEW FILL LAYER > SOLID COLOR
Set to Exclusion. You may change the opacity if you'd like, but I usually keep it at 100%.
Fill with #2a0e42.

3. Let's do some selective coloring!
LAYER > NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER > SELECTIVE COLORING

BLUES
Cyan: +14
Magenta: +42
Yellow: +100
Black: -16

MAGENTAS
Cyan: -83
Magenta: +37
Yellow: -57
Black: -93

WHITES
Cyan: -15
Magenta: +10
Yellow: +24
Black: -14

NEUTRALS
Cyan: +13
Magenta: +8
Yellow: +4
Black: +2

4. Time for Brightness/Contrast!
LAYER > NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER > BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST

BRIGHTNESS: +12
CONTRAST: -5

5. DUPLICATE YOUR BASE
Right click on your Background layer. Drag to top.

Set to Luminosity at 19%

6.CREATE NEW FILL LAYER
LAYER > NEW FILL LAYER > SOLID COLOR

Fill with #df81fa
Set to Soft Light at 54%

7. SELECTIVE COLORING YET AGAIN
LAYER > NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER > SELECTIVE COLORING

MAGENTAS
Cyan: +16
Magenta: -22
Yellow: +8
Black: 0

NEUTRALS
Cyan: +9
Magenta: +1
Yellow: 0
Black: +20

You're done!

Samples of others using this coloring::