Tutorial #3 (I think)
ok I am back ... somewhat ... but Ducky had asked me to make a tutorial of my current icon ... I tried to recreate it but this was the best I could do X____X
and yes I spelled "example" wrong ... thanks blissful_9 for telling me *headdesk*
Made with Adobe Photoshop CS3 (NOT TRANSLATABLE, that I know, you may have alternatives in other programs ^_^)
going from this
to this
Ok i grabbed my base (I took a pic of Keiichiro from the new NEWS shoot for the Birthday Rose CM).
I cleaned up the base a little and I erased Yamapi (sorry!), and i shrunk the image a bit to my liking and I colored the base as close as i could to the normal background.
Ok, NEXT .. duplicate your base and set to screen, you may need to screen it a few times, depends on how dark or how light your pic is. Mine is screened at 82%.
Next SELECTIVE COLOR (feel free to mess around with your own settings, this is just what I did)
Reds -15, +100, +26, +36
COLOR BALANCE
Midtones : -70, 0, 0
SELECTIVE COLOR
Reds : -100, -49, +58, 0
Greens : +100, -97, +100, 0
Cyans : +100, 0, +40, 0
COLOR BALANCE
Midtones : +32, 0, 0
Next I added a texture from bambinainnero, from the "Colorblind" set found HERE
And then ON THE TEXTURE I added a color balance layer
Midtones : -100, -3
MERGE THE COLOR BALANCE LAYER TO THE TEXTURE ... otherwise you will get the color balance layer on the icon as well.
And it came out like this,
I added the texture to my base and I set it to Multiply
As you can tell it looks a bit dark, then I took a SOFT BRUSH ERASER and I erased around Keiichiro, so you can see him better ^_^ (aren't I nice).
And then I added text to what I wanted ... I've been favoring the "Perpetua" font A LOT lately and I set that to Italic. Then my result ...
TA DA!!
I didn't make other examples, sorry ... but feel free to play around with your icon and mess with settings, this is just what I did ^___^
...and no psd...
Enojy!
NOTE : I will be changing the layout sometime in the near future (maybe today)... as much as I love looking at Neko-Koya, but my birthday is FAR OVER ... but Ducky lost the code for the old layout T^T ... but I'll see what I can do about the layout <3
and yes I spelled "example" wrong ... thanks blissful_9 for telling me *headdesk*
Made with Adobe Photoshop CS3 (NOT TRANSLATABLE, that I know, you may have alternatives in other programs ^_^)
going from this
to this
Ok i grabbed my base (I took a pic of Keiichiro from the new NEWS shoot for the Birthday Rose CM).
I cleaned up the base a little and I erased Yamapi (sorry!), and i shrunk the image a bit to my liking and I colored the base as close as i could to the normal background.
Ok, NEXT .. duplicate your base and set to screen, you may need to screen it a few times, depends on how dark or how light your pic is. Mine is screened at 82%.
Next SELECTIVE COLOR (feel free to mess around with your own settings, this is just what I did)
Reds -15, +100, +26, +36
COLOR BALANCE
Midtones : -70, 0, 0
SELECTIVE COLOR
Reds : -100, -49, +58, 0
Greens : +100, -97, +100, 0
Cyans : +100, 0, +40, 0
COLOR BALANCE
Midtones : +32, 0, 0
Next I added a texture from bambinainnero, from the "Colorblind" set found HERE
And then ON THE TEXTURE I added a color balance layer
Midtones : -100, -3
MERGE THE COLOR BALANCE LAYER TO THE TEXTURE ... otherwise you will get the color balance layer on the icon as well.
And it came out like this,
I added the texture to my base and I set it to Multiply
As you can tell it looks a bit dark, then I took a SOFT BRUSH ERASER and I erased around Keiichiro, so you can see him better ^_^ (aren't I nice).
And then I added text to what I wanted ... I've been favoring the "Perpetua" font A LOT lately and I set that to Italic. Then my result ...
TA DA!!
I didn't make other examples, sorry ... but feel free to play around with your icon and mess with settings, this is just what I did ^___^
...and no psd...
Enojy!
NOTE : I will be changing the layout sometime in the near future (maybe today)... as much as I love looking at Neko-Koya, but my birthday is FAR OVER ... but Ducky lost the code for the old layout T^T ... but I'll see what I can do about the layout <3