tutorial #2

[mesnica]

twinkletwilight asked me for a tutorial for this icon

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[mesnica]

You're welcome :))

[douxmist]

this is lovely! thanks so much^^

[mesnica]

Thanks :)

[meganlovesjared]

whoa.. thank you for this.
i've been wondering how to get such a dark picture so light and colorful like that for a long time.
you darn life saving you :)

[mesnica]

Thanks :)) In this pics, the colors were all there already, I just had to bring them out. It's harder on really dark pics, and I usually work with colorful light textures on those (you can see that in my other tutorial that's also posted in this comm much better).

[girl3744]

very nice tutorial^^
i just got lost a bit on step 4
this is what i got...looks a bit odd

[mesnica]

Hmm... I can't actually say from this. I put a screenshot of my layer order in the post, maybe it's that? Otherwise, can you upload your psd? I should be able to find out what the problem is when looking at that.

[girl3744]

Here's my PSD
thanks^__^

[mesnica]

Well, the good news are, you did everything correct. The bad news: my photoshop seems to have become its own life form.

I downloaded your psd, and did step 4 with the action I've saved. It came out as it should according to the tutorial. Then, I did the same step once more, using the Auto Options by going to Edit - Auto Level etc, and it came out like yours. At that point, I tried to use my action again, and it came out like yours again. It worked up to that point, so I can only guess that either I've seriously changed the default settings for Levels at one point (and they now corrected themselves) or something even more weird is going on.

I'm going to see that I find another way to go from step 3 to step 4. Give me a bit of time, and thank you very much for letting me know about this!

[mesnica]

Thank you :)