#2 Tutorial --> Supernatural coloring

[captain_yavanna]

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01.Open your base and duplicate it . Set it on screen, the second with an opacity of 40%

02.Make a new color balance layer :
Midtones : +17/+5/+13
Shadow : +1/+7/+37
Highlights : +17/+2/-22

03.Make a new hue/saturation layer :
Saturation : +14

04. Make a new color layer with #548ba9 and set it on darken with an opacity of 22%

05.Make a new hue/saturation layer :
Saturation : +29

06. Make a new channel mixer layer :
Reds : 108/-16/+10
Green : 0/+100/0
Blue : -2/0/110

07.Make a new color balance layer :
Midtones : 0/0/-32
Shadow : +4/+4/+42
Highlights : 0/-3/-+67

08.Make a new brightness/contrast layer, set the brightness on -8 and the contrast on +3

(I added a black color layer #000000 behind this one)

09. Add a gradient layer with an opacity of 24%

AND YOU'RE DONE !

I used this coloring on most of the icons of my last post with some various settings :



On some of them I use this texture
set on lighten instead of the gradient layer.

Hope you understood everything. If you got any question, please ask:)