Vibrant Color Tutorial

You're ready to create an icon but you're not certain where to begin. You have all the brushes, text, masks, and borders to make any icon out there but coloring has to be done first. In this tutorial we'll be going step by step from preparing an image to turning it into a base and then a simple finished icon. We'll turn this into this. The coloring we'll be using can be used on just about any scan, screen cap, and photograph out there with bright colors and blue sky in the background. This works especially well on those brightly colored animation screen caps. In the end, you'll have a wonderful vibrant coloring that you can use as a part of any icon you want. This tutorial was written using Photoshop CS but can be translated to any program that includes Hard Light layer settings, Brightness/Contrast adjustments, and Hue/Saturation adjustments.

( Image rich tutorial this way )