Tutorial - Black and White

[burymyregret]

Today we're gonna go from this:

to
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Requested by tune.


Tutorial made using PS7.

1. Once you’ve cropped and reduce the size of your icon to 100x100pixels, take your base and desaturate it. (Ctrl + Shift + U)

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2. It’s clearly too dark, so duplicate your base and set it to screen 100%.

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3. Take this texture by peoplemachines, paste it on top and set it to soft light 100%.

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4. Now, duplicate your base once again and bring to the top and set to soft light 100%

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5. Flatten your image.

6. Go to Image - Adjustments - Brightness/Contrast and set Brightness at +5 and Contrast at +20.

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7. Take this texture by lovelamp, paste it on top and set it to screen 100%.

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8. Take this texture by exit47, paste it on top and set to screen 100%. I moved it closer to the top so it wasn't covering any part of Veronica and it was just a light accent.

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9. Finally, take this texture by peoplemachines, paste it on top and set to screen 100%.

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Flatten and you're all done!
Hope that was helpful. :)
Comments are appreciated.