Me, a tutorial, and some icons!

[erniemay]

V odd as officially I now live in the flat alone. I feel so much more responsible for it now - tho Nikki will be popping over to check up on me and pick up her mail. She's coming over tomorrow for coffee and natter. It's been a quiet weekend with a little bit of essentials shopping, new trousers for work, that kinda thing, I have done alot of

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[anonymous]

What program do you use to make your icons?

[erniemay]

Photoshop CS

Who's this?

[finnystix]

That's a great tutorial! I use PS7, but I think I can definitely use a couple of those tricks for myself. (And those icons at the bottom of your post are just gorgeous, by the way.)

[erniemay]

Cool, thanks! I hope it helps. I used to have PS7 and I can't think on anything I used in this tutorial that can't be done in that version.

[lovergirl933]

That's great! Adding this to memories.

[erniemay]

Thanks, I hope it's useful for ya

[burningbeacon]

Thanks for the tutorial! Adding to memories. =D

[erniemay]

:D

[pidgehuss]

What did you do with the levels and the selective colors? I know how to use those layers, but what color did you affect with selective colors and what levels did you set it to for the levels layer?

[erniemay]

I can't remember the exact settings. I think that on the selective colour layer I increased the black and white, and lightened the neutral colours, I didn't change any of the other colours.

The effect of the levels layer was quite subtle, just increasing the contrast ever so slightly. I was very careful to enhance the colour rather than drowning it in light or dark. I always prefer to use selective colour and levels in increase contrast rather than the contrast/brightness layer which I find can be really harsh.

Hope this helps!