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[krinklegraphics]

ah, yes, an update from me, once again. This is just a tutorial, but an icon post will be coming up either later tonight or tomorrow morning. :)

Get a Selective Coloring look, without Selective Coloring.

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Step 1:

Prep your base. Normally, I crop, resize and sharpen mine. Depending on how dark it is, sometimes I duplicate it and set to to screen. In this case, I duplicated it and set it to Screen at 60%.

Step 2:

New Color Balance layer.

Settings:

Midtones: 40, 27, 0

Shadows: -50, 21, 51

Highlights: 0, 0, -20

Make sure Preserve Luminance is checked.

Result:

Step 3:

New layer. Fill with #9FC3F5 (
). Set on Softlight at 50%.

Result:

Step 4:

New Layer. Fill with #DEF5B7 (
). Set on Softlight at 50%.

Result:

Step 5:

New Layer. Fill with #100B4F (
). Set on Screen at 52%.

Result:

Step 6:

New Layer. Fill with #F9F0E5 (
). Set on Burn at 100%.

Result:

Step 7:

New Layer. Fill with #F6A788 (
). Set on Softlight at 100%.

Result:

Step 8:

New Layer. Fill with #DBDBDB (
). Set on Burn at 100%.

Result:

Step 9:

New Hue/Saturation/Lightness Layer. Set Saturation to +30-50 (depends on image). On this icon, I set Saturation to +40.

Result:

Optional, Step 10:

I decided I wanted to give it an older look, so I took a lovely scratchy texture (by rxyangl) and moved it around until I found a spot I like, then I set it to Screen at 100%.

Result:

Other icons made with this technique:





I would LOVE to see what you made out of this. :)