Selective Color Tutorial (Elisha Cuthbert)
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using PS CS2 (not translatable)
1. Take your base, crop and resize it to 100x100.
I used
.
2. Duplicate your base three times. Set the first two duplication layers to soft light at 100% and sharpen the second soft light layer (filter> sharpen> sharpen). Set the final duplication layer to screen at 80%. Also, up the saturation on this layer. (Image> adjustments> hue/saturation. set the saturation to 50)
3. Add a new fill layer using #fffc00. (layer> new fill layer> solid color) set this to soft light
4. Add a selective color layer (layer> new adjustment layer> selective coloring)
red
cyan: -100
magenta: 0
yellow: 100
black: 100
yellow
cyan: -23
magenta: 0
yellow: -20
black: 0
neutral
cyan: 67
magenta: -19
yellow: -80
black: 13
5. another selective color layer
red
cyan: 100
magenta: 0
yellow: 100
black: 0
yellow
cyan: 0
magenta: 0
yellow: -80
black: 0
neutral
cyan: 0
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 15
black
cyan: 0
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 15
6. it still looks a little off from what I want it to look like so I decide to add another selective color layer just to play with the greens and reds.
yellow
cyan: 100
magenta: -50
yellow: -50
neutral
cyan: 25
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: -10
7. still not quite where I want it to be so I add one more selective color layer (I know, I know!)
yellow
cyan: 100
magenta: -50
yellow: -50
black: 0
neutral
cyan: 0
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 10
8. one more selective layer coloring, just to get rid of a little more yellow.
yellow
cyan: 100
magenta: -50
yellow: -50
black: 0
neutral
cyan: 20
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 0
9. merge all and you're done!!
That's all that I did to it, and it was pretty easy. the key is to play around with the settings depending on what you want the icon to look like. Each picture is going to be different so these settings might not work with all pictures but just play around!
friend the journal for other tutorials and icons :)
to
using PS CS2 (not translatable)
1. Take your base, crop and resize it to 100x100.
I used
.
2. Duplicate your base three times. Set the first two duplication layers to soft light at 100% and sharpen the second soft light layer (filter> sharpen> sharpen). Set the final duplication layer to screen at 80%. Also, up the saturation on this layer. (Image> adjustments> hue/saturation. set the saturation to 50)
3. Add a new fill layer using #fffc00. (layer> new fill layer> solid color) set this to soft light
4. Add a selective color layer (layer> new adjustment layer> selective coloring)
red
cyan: -100
magenta: 0
yellow: 100
black: 100
yellow
cyan: -23
magenta: 0
yellow: -20
black: 0
neutral
cyan: 67
magenta: -19
yellow: -80
black: 13
5. another selective color layer
red
cyan: 100
magenta: 0
yellow: 100
black: 0
yellow
cyan: 0
magenta: 0
yellow: -80
black: 0
neutral
cyan: 0
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 15
black
cyan: 0
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 15
6. it still looks a little off from what I want it to look like so I decide to add another selective color layer just to play with the greens and reds.
yellow
cyan: 100
magenta: -50
yellow: -50
neutral
cyan: 25
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: -10
7. still not quite where I want it to be so I add one more selective color layer (I know, I know!)
yellow
cyan: 100
magenta: -50
yellow: -50
black: 0
neutral
cyan: 0
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 10
8. one more selective layer coloring, just to get rid of a little more yellow.
yellow
cyan: 100
magenta: -50
yellow: -50
black: 0
neutral
cyan: 20
magenta: 0
yellow: 0
black: 0
9. merge all and you're done!!
That's all that I did to it, and it was pretty easy. the key is to play around with the settings depending on what you want the icon to look like. Each picture is going to be different so these settings might not work with all pictures but just play around!
friend the journal for other tutorials and icons :)