Icon tutorial

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Tutorial requested by anon at iconsecrets. :D
I had to re-create a part of it, because I didn't understand something in the PSD I made..
So it doesn't look exactly the same, but I hope it's close enough!

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Involves:
Levels
Gradient and color fills
Vibrance (can be replaced by hue/saturation)
Black & white
Color Balance


1. Duplicate your base and go to Image >> Auto tone. Set this layer to 47%.


2. Add a gradient fill with the color #54260d at the bottom and #c1b9b9 at the top. Put this layer at 10%.


3. Add a new Levels layer with these settings:
RGB: 8, 1,00, 255
RED: 0, 1,08, 250


4. Add 2 Vibrance layers (you can do a Hue/Saturation layer instead, with lower settings)
Put the first one at Vibrance +84 and the second one at +58.


5. Add a black & white layer with these settings:
75, 104, 40, 60, 20, 80


6. Stamp your layers (ctrl+shift+alt+e), and go to Filer >> Blur >> Gaussian blur, with Radius at 4 pixels. Set this layer to Soft Light.


7. Stamp your layers again, set the layer on Screen 62%.


8. Add a new color fill layer with the color #6662e4. Set this layer on Multiply.


9. Stamp your layers, set the layer to Screen 63%.


10. Add a new color fill layer, with the color #120406. Set the layer to Lighten.


11. Add a new Color Balance layer with these settings:
Midtones: 0, -15, 0


12. Now add this texture by innocent_lexys. Set it to Screen.


13. Stamp your layers again. Set the layer to Soft Light 32%.


14. Add a new Color balance layer with the these settings:
Midtones: 0, -52, -71


15. Add a new gradient fill layer with the color #2d143a at the bottom and #e4ceeb at the top. Set this layer to Soft Light 10%.


16. Final step! Stamp your layers, and go to Filter >> Sharpen >> Sharpen


I'm sorry this is so long! You could probably skip a few of these steps and get a similar result.

Comments

[rebel.livejournal.com]

Oooh, pretty! Thank you for posting this!