Tutorial #1
Since people keep askin for this kind of colouring i finally decided to make a tut! :)
Just ask u do not usin this tut for every single icon cos its kinda boring to see the same coloring everywhere ;)
ok i thought this icon is ok for a tutorial...so GO
from this to
PS. Actually its a bit differ from the icon in my entry before but i never save psd files (and im not icon robot lol)...anyway
ok so what u have to do is:
1) take your base and do what u always do - crop, resize, sharpen icon (btw just a hint...i reduce my cropped image to 300px, then sharpen once and only then i reduce to 100px ...its just make 100x100 pic looks way better then u will sharpen already resized pic ...but its all up to you and besides for some pix this way cant work out)
2) so u have something like this now
then just lets say copy this base twice and set both layers to screen (the second one with 25% opacity):
3) ok finally lets get to coloring
Actually its really simple but i must say it looks good ;) So go to Layer-->New Layer Adjustment-->Selective color ...here are the options:
REDS:
Blue -100
Yellow +30
YELLOW:
Blue -75
Yellow +8
NEUTRALS:
Blue +22
Black +10
then duplicate this 'selective color' layer and set to 33% opacity
so u will get something like this:
4) Now go to Layer-->New Layer Adjustment-->Curves
we going to work only with "Blue" one
this curve must look something like that:
and thats it!! you must get this:
Again it depends on pic so of course some options may vary but i hope i helped you somehow anyway :)
other my icons i made using this coloring
Just ask u do not usin this tut for every single icon cos its kinda boring to see the same coloring everywhere ;)
ok i thought this icon is ok for a tutorial...so GO
from this to
PS. Actually its a bit differ from the icon in my entry before but i never save psd files (and im not icon robot lol)...anyway
ok so what u have to do is:
1) take your base and do what u always do - crop, resize, sharpen icon (btw just a hint...i reduce my cropped image to 300px, then sharpen once and only then i reduce to 100px ...its just make 100x100 pic looks way better then u will sharpen already resized pic ...but its all up to you and besides for some pix this way cant work out)
2) so u have something like this now
then just lets say copy this base twice and set both layers to screen (the second one with 25% opacity):
3) ok finally lets get to coloring
Actually its really simple but i must say it looks good ;) So go to Layer-->New Layer Adjustment-->Selective color ...here are the options:
REDS:
Blue -100
Yellow +30
YELLOW:
Blue -75
Yellow +8
NEUTRALS:
Blue +22
Black +10
then duplicate this 'selective color' layer and set to 33% opacity
so u will get something like this:
4) Now go to Layer-->New Layer Adjustment-->Curves
we going to work only with "Blue" one
this curve must look something like that:
and thats it!! you must get this:
Again it depends on pic so of course some options may vary but i hope i helped you somehow anyway :)
other my icons i made using this coloring