Omg another one.

[dinklebert]

Going from this:
to this:

With Photoshop 7



Duplicate your base layer and set it to Screen. Put it to an opacity that makes it bright, and clear, but not blinding. I used 50%.



New Selective Colour Layer:

REDS:
C: -100
M: 100
Y: 100
B: -30

YELLOWS:
C: -100
M: 100
Y: 100
B: -40

NEUTRALS:
C: 35
M: -33
Y: -56
B: 0



Select the whole image and go to Edit, Copy Merged, then Paste. Set that layer to Soft Light.

Delete the screen layer.



New Colour Balance Layer:

Midtones: -63, 3, -53
Shadows: 13, -20, 17
Highlights: 8, -6, -7



You can leave it here, or continue…

Duplicate the base layer and bring it to the top. Set it to Luminosity 25-50% (you don't always have to do this...)



Fill a new layer with 001071 on Exclusion. I used 60% on this one, but you can play around with it.



New layer. Fill with either D2FCFF(light blue) OR FFE6F9(light pink) on Colour Burn 100%. For this, I used the light blue.



And that’s all. Woot.

Some other icons made with this colouring:






I love seeing what people make =]