Tutorial #20 - Chase Crawford

Sep 02, 2008 17:13

Learn how to make the following.

from this
to this

this icon was made for Challenge #67 @
starsstills

Made in Photoshop CS.
Involves: curves, color balance, channel mixer

Step 1: Open up a new file 100x100 and add this texture to it by

Step 2: Then open up the picture of Chase and i used the pen tool and clicked around the background like this and then i deleted the background. you should have something like this

Step 3: After that get the easer tool and set it to a soft round brush at 20px for the Master Diameter and i just went around Chase and eased abit of him so that bits of him are transparent like this . and then i resized him so that it can fit into the middle of the icon and now drag to the icon where you put this texture.


Step 4: Curves
Input : 100 Output: 158


Step 5: Channel Mixer
Output channel: Red

source channels:
RED: +82
GREEN: -6
BLUE: +16
CONSTANT: 0


Step 6: Color Balance

MIDTONES: +65, +6, -32
SHADOWS: +14, 0, -29
HIGHLIGHTS: 0, 0, 0


Step 7: Hue/Saturation

Saturation : +12


Step 8: i added some text and thats about it.


well hope you enjoyed the tutorial. :)

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program: photoshop, tutorial: colouring

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