I did find it hard, probably because although I do a lot of monochrome or graded-colour icons, trying to use blatantly unattural colour didn't come at all natural to me...
Thank you for the votes! :) This was a really hard challenge! I normally love making icons that have bright colours in them, but I always try to get them as natural as possible, and just tinker with brightness and contrast... this was something entirely different!!
All of the icons I made had one or two layers in common - a 'color' and a 'hard light' or 'darken' layer. I use PSP and tried a lot of different methods to change the original colours. The only way I could come up with was to pick a colour from the palette that was several shades darker than I wanted to use and with the paint brush on a new layer, paint over the areas I wanted to change with the selected colours, and then set that layer to 'color'. I found that generally wasn't dark enough, so I filled another layer with a dark colour and set it to 'darken' or 'hard light'. Some worked, some didn't so it was definitely a trial and error challenge :)
but I always try to get them as natural as possible, and just tinker with brightness and contrast... this was something entirely different!!
I know, it goes against all one's instincts! It was double challenge because it wasn't just unnatural colours, but trying to make it look good at the same time.
I played around a lot with the others, but 'alien dawn' was actually very simple. As far as I remember, it was a sunset picture with a transparent layer set to 'colour' on which I did two separate rectangular selects into which I poured two colours I liked. Then I added plain white text.
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I did find it hard, probably because although I do a lot of monochrome or graded-colour icons, trying to use blatantly unattural colour didn't come at all natural to me...
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All of the icons I made had one or two layers in common - a 'color' and a 'hard light' or 'darken' layer. I use PSP and tried a lot of different methods to change the original colours. The only way I could come up with was to pick a colour from the palette that was several shades darker than I wanted to use and with the paint brush on a new layer, paint over the areas I wanted to change with the selected colours, and then set that layer to 'color'. I found that generally wasn't dark enough, so I filled another layer with a dark colour and set it to 'darken' or 'hard light'. Some worked, some didn't so it was definitely a trial and error challenge :)
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I know, it goes against all one's instincts! It was double challenge because it wasn't just unnatural colours, but trying to make it look good at the same time.
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