Tutorial 002
How to go from:
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using Photoshop CS3 Extended
1. First, we use a curves layer to lighten the picture. While it's not particularly dark at the moment we will be adding a colour burn layer later will make it dark. How much lighter it needs to be will depend on the original image so play around but I usually make it subtle.
My settings were:
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2. Now create a new layer and fill it with a light yellow. In this case I used #e8e49e. Set the layer to soft light at 100%. Don't worry if your icon looks very light and washed out just now, this will be sorted later.
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3. Create another new layer and fill this one with a light pink. I used #f28eb4. Again, set the layer to soft light at 100%.
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4. Create a new layer and this time fill it with a light orange (#e8c49e). Set this to color burn. Mine was set to 86%.
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5. Since the orange colour is overpowering on the icon, we use a contrasting colour, in this case a medium blue (#457fa8), to cancel this out. Create a new layer and fill it with the blue, then set to color burn at 55%. As you will see this also makes the icon darker and have more contrast.
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6. The blacks in the icon still have a red/orangey tint so i created a new layer and filled it with a light blue (#b7dff1), then set it to linear burn at 71% to make the shadows darker.
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7. Since the icon is dark again, I used a levels layer to brighten it, particularly to make the whites lighter.
My settings were:
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8. The strongest colour in the icon is currently the green. To break this up a bit I decided to increase the reds in the icon: particularly the car and partly Alex's face. I did this using selective colouring. This part really depends on the original picture, but try to increase a colour that isn't featured in the icon much. My settings were as follows:
Red: Cyan: -61
Magenta: +81
Yellow: +100
Neutrals: Cyan: -16
Magenta: +14
Yellow: +13
Black: -4
Blacks: Black: -8
The method should be set to relative.
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9. The icon is still to dark so I made a final curves layer:
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10. Next I added this texture (by mefan,I edited it to up the contrast and remove a black corner) as a new layer:
Set this to linear burn at 25%.
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11. Duplicate the texture and set it to soft light at 25%.
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12. Finally I created a new layer. Using the gradient tool with the following settings
I made a small radial gradient with the colour #dcdad6. I then used the smudge tool with the brush set at 40 and the strength about 40%, so that I was left with something like this:
(but without the black background).
The layer was then set to lighten at 31%. I placed this roughly on Alex's shoulder so that the added light makes her the focus on the icon.
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That's your icon finished. Since this will obviously not have the same result for every picture try going back and altering the colours/opacity of the soft light and burn layers.
If you like what you see friend this community for updates.
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using Photoshop CS3 Extended
1. First, we use a curves layer to lighten the picture. While it's not particularly dark at the moment we will be adding a colour burn layer later will make it dark. How much lighter it needs to be will depend on the original image so play around but I usually make it subtle.
My settings were:
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2. Now create a new layer and fill it with a light yellow. In this case I used #e8e49e. Set the layer to soft light at 100%. Don't worry if your icon looks very light and washed out just now, this will be sorted later.
>
3. Create another new layer and fill this one with a light pink. I used #f28eb4. Again, set the layer to soft light at 100%.
>
4. Create a new layer and this time fill it with a light orange (#e8c49e). Set this to color burn. Mine was set to 86%.
>
5. Since the orange colour is overpowering on the icon, we use a contrasting colour, in this case a medium blue (#457fa8), to cancel this out. Create a new layer and fill it with the blue, then set to color burn at 55%. As you will see this also makes the icon darker and have more contrast.
>
6. The blacks in the icon still have a red/orangey tint so i created a new layer and filled it with a light blue (#b7dff1), then set it to linear burn at 71% to make the shadows darker.
>
7. Since the icon is dark again, I used a levels layer to brighten it, particularly to make the whites lighter.
My settings were:
>
8. The strongest colour in the icon is currently the green. To break this up a bit I decided to increase the reds in the icon: particularly the car and partly Alex's face. I did this using selective colouring. This part really depends on the original picture, but try to increase a colour that isn't featured in the icon much. My settings were as follows:
Red: Cyan: -61
Magenta: +81
Yellow: +100
Neutrals: Cyan: -16
Magenta: +14
Yellow: +13
Black: -4
Blacks: Black: -8
The method should be set to relative.
>
9. The icon is still to dark so I made a final curves layer:
>
10. Next I added this texture (by mefan,I edited it to up the contrast and remove a black corner) as a new layer:
Set this to linear burn at 25%.
>
11. Duplicate the texture and set it to soft light at 25%.
>
12. Finally I created a new layer. Using the gradient tool with the following settings
I made a small radial gradient with the colour #dcdad6. I then used the smudge tool with the brush set at 40 and the strength about 40%, so that I was left with something like this:
(but without the black background).
The layer was then set to lighten at 31%. I placed this roughly on Alex's shoulder so that the added light makes her the focus on the icon.
>
That's your icon finished. Since this will obviously not have the same result for every picture try going back and altering the colours/opacity of the soft light and burn layers.
If you like what you see friend this community for updates.