Icon Tutorial - 1st Ever

[stiffy_byng]

1st tutorial ever.

As requested by sugared. :)

-Made on PS CS 2
-Involves Selective Coloring
-Not Translatable, Sorry!

From this example picture

Comments

[finding_jay]

Fantastic! Thanks so much for making.

[stiffy_byng]

No problem! Hope it turns out to be useful. :D

[foreverbm]

I'm going to try this right now, it looks fanastic. Thank You!

[stiffy_byng]

You're welcome! :)

[foreverbm]

Ok, I tried it, but didnt do the beginning as you said, with making the lines cause I couldnt quite work it out yet, but will keep trying but I am happy with my result for my first time at trying this.
Thank you again,adding to mems!

[stiffy_byng]

I think the way the pictures are placed looks cool---nice diagonal effect. Which part didn't work? Not that it matters, because the icon came out with spaces anyway. It doesn't matter how you get there as long as you get the effect you're looking for. :D Thanks for trying the tut! If you have any other questions let me know though.

[sugared]

Woo I feel so special ! Thaaank you for this

[stiffy_byng]

Hee! I was inspired and unlazy for once sugared. ;) Glad you liked it. Love your color technique, great blues, esp. w/the crying face. :)

I was trying to figure out how you can get bright reds with color balance and color layers. Selective color is the only way I've ever seen nice popping red but I'm sure there's a way.......

[sugared]

Thank you so much :]

Uhm, let's see. The way I did that first one was just with different color layers. I have two tuts that I use when coloring. The one I used on that one is just different color layers [one with multiply, one with soft light and one with exclusion I think ]. I never really use selective colors & I get reds to pop just fine. If you want I can post the links to those tuts and you can try them out :]

[stiffy_byng]

Sure that would be great! Thanks! :D I always want to know every way to do every coloring.

[potatopower]

Wow, awesome technique. Three images at the same icon, cool.
I'll try this today :) Thanks for sharing.

[stiffy_byng]

Hope it works out for you! :)