tutorial two

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today we are going from
this:
to this:

Program: Photoshop CS2
Uses: Curves, Selective Colouring, and Colour Balance



Start with your base.


Duplicate it twice and set both layers to screen. The middle layer should be at 100% and the top layer should be at 40%. Your icons should look like this.


Make a new layer and fill it with 684718 and set that to Soft Light 100% (depending on the picture, you may want to decrease the opacity amount.) Your icon should look like this.


Now add a Curves layer (Layers>New Adjustment Layer>Curves)

RGB
Point One:
Input: 132
Output: 124

RED
Point One:
Input: 255
Output: 241

Point Two:
Input: 170
Output: 191

Point Three:
Input: 79
Output: 78

Point Four:
Input: 0
Output: 17

GREEN
Point One:
Input: 128
Output: 136

Your icon should look like this.


Now add a Selective Colouring layer. (Layers>New Adjustment Layer>Selective Colour)
(For different pictures you may want to fool around with this step.)

REDS
Cyan: -38
Magenta: -9
Yellow: -4
Black +50

NEUTRALS
Cyan: -4
Magenta: -3
Yellow: +4
Black -24

Your icons should now look like this.


Now add a Colour Balance layer (Layers>New Adjustment Layer>Colour Blance)

Midtones
-29, -20, +25

Highlights
-23, +6, +53

Shadows
+7, -2, -28

And you're DONE!


Other icons made with similar colouring