Tutorials and Icon help

[Emsan]

^^ Lol I will try not too haha. It's a really good technique. Anyway, I'm on MSN now

[Luc]

Emma (Emsan) requested a tutorial for . It's simpler that it looks

1. Prepare your base (crop, sharpen, ect...)

2. Duplicate your base and set it on scree, the opacity depends entirely on how dar the base is. You made need to do this twice.

3. Create a new selective colour layer and use the following settings...

RED:

C: -62

M: +100

Y: +100

B: +100

YELLOW:

C: -100

M: 0

Y: +100

B: 0

NEUTRAL:

C: +58

M: -11

Y: -28

B: -17

Done. I told you it was easy, didn't I?

[Emsan]

Yey thanks Luc!

I love your coloring sooo much!

Just look! haha

Oh and by the way, I added a hue/saturation layer to spice it up a bit.

[Luc]

That looks awesome Em ! The hue/sat layer adds so much to it. I really like them .

[Zetti]

Can I ask because I am kind of stupid. Is it set to relative or absolute?

[Luc]

It's set to relative

[Zetti]

Cool thanks

[Emsan]

Katie wanted a tutorial on this coloring:

So here goes

Step 1

First of all take your base and crop it.

Step 2

Make a new curves layer to make the icon brighter, (layer>new adjustment layer>curves). Use these settings:

RGB

Output: 157

Input: 89

Step 3

Now I added a selective color layer, (layer>new adjustment layer>selective color). Use these settings:

Reds: -100 | 0 | +100 | 0

Neutrals: 0 | 0 | +8 | 0

Step 4

Make another selective color layer, (layer>new adjustment layer>selective color). Use these settings:

Cyans: +100 | 0 | +100 | 0

Neutrals: +17 | 0 | +10 | 0

Step 5

And add another selective color layer, last one I promise! (layer>new adjustment layer>selective color). Use these settings:

Cyans: +100 | 0 | 0 | 0

Neutrals: +11 | 0 | -9 | 0

Step 6

Now I want it to become a bit brighter so I added a brightness/contrast layer, (layer>new adjustment layer>brightness/contrast). Use these settings:

Brightness: +38

Contrast: 0

Step 7

Now I wanted the colors to be more visible so I added a hue/saturation layer, (layer>new adjustment layer>hue/saturation). Use these settings:

Saturation: +15

Then just add some text and you are done! I sharpened mine once to.

[Courtz]

Nice tuts.

[Courtz]

I've been asked to do a tutorial for some of my Twilight icons so here we go.

We will be going from this: To this:

Step 1

First crop your base and if it's dark duplicate the layer and set it to screen so it's lighter, sharpen it if you need to as well.

Step 2

Make a new levels layer with these settings; RGB Input: 10, 1.25, 255

Step 3

Make a new brightness/contrast layer with these settings; Brightness +6 Contrast +16

Step 4

Now we are doing a new colour balance layer. The settings are;

Midtones: +44, 0, -44

Step 5

Do a new hue/saturation layer with the opacity on 10% with these settings; Saturation +20

Step 6

Do another hue/saturation layer with the opacity on 60% and set it to soft light with these settings; Saturation +20

Step 7

Now do a channel mix layer with these settings;

Red: +100, -6, -6

Green: +8, +100, -6

Blue: +6, +100

Step 8

Make a new layers level with these settings; RGB Input: 23, 0.88, 247 Blue Input: 17, 0.93, 228

Step 9

Do another levels layer with these settings; RGB Input: 48, 1.57, 255 RGB Output: 0, 233

Step 10

Now do a new fill layer with the colour #bfdee7 and set it to soft light 54%

Step 11

Now another fill layer with #ecddd2 setting it at colour burn 100%

Step 12

Now one last fill layer with #bddae3 set to darken at 50%

And there you have it. I also like to add light/smokey textures like this:

And set to lighten and erase around the faces etc. But you can play around with textures yourself.

Hope this is helpful.