Tutorial 10: Yuuko
And Yuuko's back! :D
Requested by nakimas.
How to go from
to
in Photoshop. Uses Selective Coloring, so probably not translatable.
1. Get your base ready! I used this gorgeous Yuuko image from xxxHolic.
2. You should all by tired from this step by now, but I did it for many icons lately. D: Anyway, gray exclusion layers help a lot when you want to brighten up your image without relying on screen or soft light duplicates all the time. So create a new layer and fill it with #3b3b3b on Exclusion, 50%.
3. Way better already. For clearing up things, drag a Soft Light, 100% duplicate of your base to the top.
4. Nice, but we want it to be more colorful. Create a Hue/Saturation... adj. layer and set the master saturation to 40 (depending on your image you should lower it when your chara starts looking like a nuclear victim).
5. Time to play with the colors! Make a Selective Color... adj. layer and put in these settings (set to Normal, 100%):
Reds: -100 30 55 100
Yellows: 0 -20 0 0
Cyans: 25 -30 0 -25
Neutrals: 55 0 -10 -30
This mainly accentuates blueish colors and gives white areas a green aura, I've been using it a lot lately. <3
Duplicate this SC layer and lower the opacity to 40%.
6. For some light effects, take this lens texture by gravira and this one (by ?) and set both to Screen, 100%:
Wtf it's washed out and ugly, but it'll turn out very pretty later, I promise!
7. To make it even uglier take this texture by bambinainnero, set to Multiply, 100%.
8. More lights! Take this texture (by ?), again on Screen, 100% for the washed out horror and fix everything with a Soft Light, 100% duplicate of your base:
9. I promised you, didn't I? :D But not finished yet. Don't know why, but I always want Yuuko icons to have a magical feeling (maybe because she's the Dimension Witch, LOL), so I took this light texture by expose42 on Screen, 100% for more sparkles. Add some (tiny) text if you want, and that's it!
Questions? Just ask! :D
Other examples:
Be creative and experiment however you want, and I'd love to see your results! I'm curious what you come up with. :D
Like what you see? Friend soleil_icons for future updates. More tutorials are here.
Requested by nakimas.
How to go from
to
in Photoshop. Uses Selective Coloring, so probably not translatable.
1. Get your base ready! I used this gorgeous Yuuko image from xxxHolic.
2. You should all by tired from this step by now, but I did it for many icons lately. D: Anyway, gray exclusion layers help a lot when you want to brighten up your image without relying on screen or soft light duplicates all the time. So create a new layer and fill it with #3b3b3b on Exclusion, 50%.
3. Way better already. For clearing up things, drag a Soft Light, 100% duplicate of your base to the top.
4. Nice, but we want it to be more colorful. Create a Hue/Saturation... adj. layer and set the master saturation to 40 (depending on your image you should lower it when your chara starts looking like a nuclear victim).
5. Time to play with the colors! Make a Selective Color... adj. layer and put in these settings (set to Normal, 100%):
Reds: -100 30 55 100
Yellows: 0 -20 0 0
Cyans: 25 -30 0 -25
Neutrals: 55 0 -10 -30
This mainly accentuates blueish colors and gives white areas a green aura, I've been using it a lot lately. <3
Duplicate this SC layer and lower the opacity to 40%.
6. For some light effects, take this lens texture by gravira and this one (by ?) and set both to Screen, 100%:
Wtf it's washed out and ugly, but it'll turn out very pretty later, I promise!
7. To make it even uglier take this texture by bambinainnero, set to Multiply, 100%.
8. More lights! Take this texture (by ?), again on Screen, 100% for the washed out horror and fix everything with a Soft Light, 100% duplicate of your base:
9. I promised you, didn't I? :D But not finished yet. Don't know why, but I always want Yuuko icons to have a magical feeling (maybe because she's the Dimension Witch, LOL), so I took this light texture by expose42 on Screen, 100% for more sparkles. Add some (tiny) text if you want, and that's it!
Questions? Just ask! :D
Other examples:
Be creative and experiment however you want, and I'd love to see your results! I'm curious what you come up with. :D
Like what you see? Friend soleil_icons for future updates. More tutorials are here.