Icon Tutorial 001

[dirtysmudges]

Hi. This is my first tutorial featuring Kristen Bell.

We are going from this
 to this

Made with Adobe Photoshop CS2. Involves color balance and selective color.

1. The first and most important step is the crop your image. I start with a high quality image and then crop it down to about 150 by 150 pixels. Next, I open a new document at 100 by 100 pixels. Copy and paste the 150 by 150 icon onto the blank 100 by 100 canvas. Go to your tools and select the move tool.  You can now drag the icon around until you get the nicest position. If it doesn't look right, change the 150 to something higher or lower and mess around.

2. LAYER -> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> COLOR BALANCE
Midtones: -33 | 10 | 23

3. LAYER -+ NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> SELECTIVE COLOR
REDS:
-100
0
-100
0

YELLOWS:
-100
+69
+100
+22

NEUTRALS:
+18
-13
-18
0

4. LAYER -> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> SELECTIVE COLOR
Reds:
-58
+33
+42
0

Yellows:
-100
-27
-24
-27

Neutrals:
-21
+10
-1
0

5. LAYER -> NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -> SELECTIVE COLOR
Reds:
-100
0
+44
0

Yellows:
0
-32
+33
0

Whites:
-100
0
-4
0

Neutrals:
+69
-19
-19
0

6. Set the last selective color layer to softlight @ 100%.

Other icons made using the same tutorial.