Tutorial #11 > Danny Messer
Made with Adobe Photoshop CS3. Not translatable.
Level: Medium. Uses selective coloring.
As always, please remember that tutorials are just guides, and that you may need to adjust the coloring or brightness depending on your selected image.
1. Crop your image to 100x100 px. (For an easy way to crop/resize, check out this tutorial.)
2. Duplicate your base and set to screen 100. Depending on the brightness of your cap, you may need to make more than one screen layer. For this icon, I had two.
3. Select your top screen layer. Go to Filter > Sharpen > Sharpen.
4. Layer > new adjustment layer > hue/saturation. Set master saturation to +20.
5. Layer > new adjustment layer > selective color
REDS
Cyan: -50
Magenta: -10
Yellow: 20
Black: -10
YELLOWS
Cyan: -60
Yellow: -20
Black: -10
WHITES
Cyan: 50
Magenta: -30
Yellow: 20
NEUTRALS
Cyan: 10
Magenta: 4
Yellow: 5
Black: -4
6. Layer > new adjustment layer > selective color
REDS
Cyan: -20
YELLOWS
Cyan: -40
NEUTRALS
Cyan: 10
And you're done!
It's a fairly simple way to achieve some coloring, but don't feel that you have to stop there. Here are some other icons I made using the same steps, but only the first one was the exact same. The other two, I added some color fill and color balance layers.
For some other great tutorials, check out my tutorial list.