Tutorial #7 - Dark Yellowish coloring - PSCS2 - Translatable
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01. Take your cap and crop it, do a standard base prep, that is, sharpen the image, preferably with the unsharp mask... (settings: amount 50%, radius 2.0 pixels, threshold 5 levels) tool, duplicate the base twice, set the middle layer to screen and the top layer to soft light, play with the opacity of the layers until it looks right, no two images will be the same, this one was screen: 10%, soft light 100%, merge all. You should now have something that looks like this:
02. Duplicate your base, set to screen, 100% opacity.
03. Duplicate your base again, drag to the top and set to screen, 100% opacity.
04. Duplicate your base a third time, drag to the top and set to soft light, 100% opacity.
your image should look too light and too bright, the color effects are very dark so it needs to be overly bright at the start, if it doesn't look bright enough to you, add an extra screen layer below the soft light layer.
05. New color fill/raster layer, fill with #1E40D7
set to exclusion at 50%.
06. New color fill/raster layer, fill with #9EC2CE
set to color burn at 100%.
07. New color fill/raster layer, fill with #EACF7E
set to multiply at 30%.
08. Duplicate your base drag to the top and set to soft light, opacity 50%.
09. Layers > New Adjustment Layer >> Brightness/Contrast: Settings - Brightness = -10 Contrast = +16.
10. Add any decoration, text, borders etc. Make sure your layers palette looks something like this:
Merge all and you're done!
Other icons made using this technique:
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01. Take your cap and crop it, do a standard base prep, that is, sharpen the image, preferably with the unsharp mask... (settings: amount 50%, radius 2.0 pixels, threshold 5 levels) tool, duplicate the base twice, set the middle layer to screen and the top layer to soft light, play with the opacity of the layers until it looks right, no two images will be the same, this one was screen: 10%, soft light 100%, merge all. You should now have something that looks like this:
02. Duplicate your base, set to screen, 100% opacity.
03. Duplicate your base again, drag to the top and set to screen, 100% opacity.
04. Duplicate your base a third time, drag to the top and set to soft light, 100% opacity.
your image should look too light and too bright, the color effects are very dark so it needs to be overly bright at the start, if it doesn't look bright enough to you, add an extra screen layer below the soft light layer.
05. New color fill/raster layer, fill with #1E40D7
set to exclusion at 50%.
06. New color fill/raster layer, fill with #9EC2CE
set to color burn at 100%.
07. New color fill/raster layer, fill with #EACF7E
set to multiply at 30%.
08. Duplicate your base drag to the top and set to soft light, opacity 50%.
09. Layers > New Adjustment Layer >> Brightness/Contrast: Settings - Brightness = -10 Contrast = +16.
10. Add any decoration, text, borders etc. Make sure your layers palette looks something like this:
Merge all and you're done!
Other icons made using this technique:
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