tutorial #15: rashida jones

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Five steps total involving selective colouring, levels, and colour balance.

1] Prep your base however you usually would.

2] Create a new layer and flood fill it with #F8F8DE. Set to Soft Light @ 100%.

3] Create a Selective Colouring Layer. Set to the following:

REDS: 17, 40, -29, 42
YELLOWS: 36, 35, -52, 38
NEUTRALS: 3, -9, -6, 16

4] Create a Levels Layer. Set to the following:

RBG
input: 0, 0.75, 255
output: 0, 236

RED
input: 0, 0.88, 230
output: 0, 255

Green
input: 10, 0.87, 255
output: 0, 255

BLUE
input: 0, 0.96, 255
output: 0, 243

5] Create a Color Balance Layer. Set to the following:

SHADOWS: 19, 10, 16
MIDTONES: -28, 6, 31
HIGHLIGHTS: -3, 10, -1

make sure the preserve luminosity is checked.

6] Merge and add any text or brushes you want. Wicked simple right?

::other icons made with this::







and for those who want it here is the psd.

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