Quick and sweet tut - vibrant colors.
Ok this is a quick tut on how to get vibrant colors in your icons. And for once I am ctually posting something under a real cut, so please take a peak:
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Ok, so first off I start with the basics, I grab a screencap from VM Caps. I crop it, and sharpen it and set it to screen a couple times, you know the usual jazz.
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New layer> Fill #1E4400
Exclusion 43%
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Duplicate the original image and bring it to the top
Softlight 100%
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Fill with #CAA6FF
Color burn 46%
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Fill with #A6FFED
Color Burn 100%
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#0006FF
Normal 16%
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#000249
Exclusion 100%
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Duplicate the original image (bring to top)
Screen 46%
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Duplicate the original image once more (bring to top)
Softlight 100%
And that is it, your icon has been made.. vibrant-ish. If you liked this tutorial, have comments, or would like to show me your results PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave a comment, I am really interested to see what people think of this tut.
from this:
to this:
Ok, so first off I start with the basics, I grab a screencap from VM Caps. I crop it, and sharpen it and set it to screen a couple times, you know the usual jazz.
>
New layer> Fill #1E4400
Exclusion 43%
>
Duplicate the original image and bring it to the top
Softlight 100%
>
Fill with #CAA6FF
Color burn 46%
>
Fill with #A6FFED
Color Burn 100%
>
#0006FF
Normal 16%
>
#000249
Exclusion 100%
>
Duplicate the original image (bring to top)
Screen 46%
>
Duplicate the original image once more (bring to top)
Softlight 100%
And that is it, your icon has been made.. vibrant-ish. If you liked this tutorial, have comments, or would like to show me your results PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave a comment, I am really interested to see what people think of this tut.