Tutorial Veronica Mars

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It's a tutorial for PHOTOSHOP users.

We'll be going from
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1. We'll be starting with this base:

2. Duplicate backgroundlayer and set it to screen at 30 opacity.
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3. Create new adjustment layer->curves
RGB: input:44; output:72
RED: input:249; output:251
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4. Create another new adjustment layer->curves (this step is optional if your base is very light you can just skip it)
RGB: input:50; output:80
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5. New adjustment layer->selective color
REDS: -100,+40,+40,+5
YELLOWS: -30,-40,-80,0
NEUTRALS: +30,+10,+10,-30
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6. New adjustment layer->selective color
REDS: -100,+50,+60,0
NEUTRALS: +70,-30,-30,-10
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7. New adjustment layer->color balance
MIDTONES: -30,-15,-20
SHADOWS: -15,+5,+20
HIGHLIGHTS: -3,+2,-5
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8. We'll be using this texture:

Past it on your icon and go to Image->Adjustments->Desaturate
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9. Set texture to multiply opacity 100%
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10. Now with eraser get rid off parts that are covering importnat parts of your icon. I recomend you to use a big soft round brush at low opacity, I used 31%
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11. Paste this texture on your icon:

Set it to multiply opacity 50% and again with round brush erase it from important parts use just a little bit new a black border from the previous texture
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12. New adjustment layer->selective color (I'm using it because my icon looks a little bit washed out, if yours look ok then just skip this step.)
NEUTRALS: 0,0,0,+10
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13. Just add some text if you want. I used font diediedie and I wrote: "Veronica"
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Other icons made with this tutorial: