Tutorial #5: Kate Winslet
How to go from
to
using Photoshop Elements
As requested by irishborn12
1. Start with your base and sharpen to your liking. Mine is of the lovely Kate Winslet.
2. Duplicate your base twice. Set the layer closest to the bottom on screen, 100%, and the one on top to soft light, 100%. The number of times you duplicate it depends on how light or dark your base is. It should now look something like this
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3. Create a new layer and fill it with a nice turquoise color (#99DDF6). Set the layer on color burn, 100%
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4. Create another new later and fill it with a light pink color (#F2A5D2). Set the layer to soft light, 50%
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5. Create another new later and fill it with a very pale yellow color (#FDEBD0). Set the layer on color burn, 100%
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6. Take this gradient and set it on soft light, 60%
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7. Paste this light texture four times. Leave the first two where they are, but move the other two to the corners (one to the top left corner, and the other to the bottom right). Set all of them to screen, 100%.
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8. Finally, create a new adjustment layer to enhance the brightness/contrast. To do that on my program, I go to Layer>>New Adjustment Layer>>Brightness/Contrast. I leave the Brightness on 0 but change the contrast to +20. It should look something like this:
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And that’s it! :)
Other icons made using a similar technique:
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If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask; I'll try my best to help if anything is confusing. I'd love to see what you come up with if you use this tutorial :)
Enjoy!