A Cowby, Vampire and Doctor walk into a bar.

Went a little icon crazed today. Made three new tutorials. Made using PS CS, not sure if it's translate.

Tutorial 1 - Go from This to this in 5 steps. Uses Selective Coloring

Tutorial 2 - Go from This to this. Uses Selective Coloring and masking.

Tutorial 3 - Go from This to this Super Easy.



Tutorial 1 - Turks from Scrubs.

1-1) Ok, open up a new 100x100 pixel base and open up the image you wish to use for this icon. Resize it until it fits the way you want it to.

This is what my canvas looked like.

1-2) Duplicate base and drag it to the top. Set this layer to Screen. Go back to the base and sharpen it once.

This is what I had.

1-3) Open up a new Selective Color Layer above the other layers. To get to the Selective Coloring layer. On the layer window there is a little black/white circle. Click on that adn select Selective Color. Ok, when the new box opens up go to Red and select the following:

Red
Magenta -12
Yellow 36
Black 20

On the drop down box choose Cyan and input the following:

Cyan
Cyan 100
Magenta -70
Black 32

You should have the following.

1-4) On that little black/white circle on the layer window choose Brightness/Contrast layer. Input the following:

Brightness 17
Contrast 27

This is what it should look like.

1-5) Last step. Ok. open up another Selective Coloring layer and input the following.

Neutral
Cyan 25
Black 12

Ok, and now we are done. This is what I have for my final outcome.


Tutorial 2 - Vincent from DoC


2-1) Crop your image to a 100x100 base. Sharpen the base once. You should have this.

2-2) Go to our new friend the white/black circle on the layers window. Select the Selective Color layer and input the following under Red:

Red
Cyan -98
Magenta 55
Yellow 55
Black 65

You should see this

2-3) Go back to the circle and once again choose another Selective Coloring layer. And input the following:

Red
Cyan -84
Magenta 46
Yellow 52
Black 60

You should see this

2-4) Open up thses two layers (if these are yours please tell me and I will credit ^__^) Move them around so they aren't covering the base picture. Set both to Screen.

You should have something that looks like this

2-5) Ok, now time to get a bit creative. Your going to grab that big picture of Vincent andn drag it to the top of the layer list. Free transform in and move it around until you like it. I moved the picture to the right side of the icon. Ok, now go to Image>Adjustment>Selective Color. This is going to just color the mini Vincent picture. Now input the following:

Red
Cyan -72
Magenta 52
Yellow 41
Black 63.

Now change the opacity to 91% and grab your eraser. Set the eraser to 81% opacity and make sure the brush has soft edges. Erase any parts that are coving the main picture of Vincent.

You should have somehting similar to this.

2-6) Add some texts and you are done. I added darkness falls in Times New Roman in 7.5 Crisp. Also added some tiny text brushes. And this was my final product.


Tutorial 3 - Spike from Cowboy Bebop

3-1) Take the image resize and crop it to a 100x100 pixel base. Sharpen it once. You should have a base that looks like this.

3-2) Duplicate the image, set it to the top of the list and set it to Screen. Your image should look like this.

3-3) Take this texture (Not sure who it belongs to, just let me know and I will credit. Set it to Screen at the top of the layer list. Your base should look like this.

3-4) Take this brush an place it to the left of Spikes' head. Now take this texture and set it to screen at the top of your list. Your image should look similar to this.

3-5) Duplicate the base picture, drag it to the top of your layer list and Desaturate the image and set it to Color Burn. This is what is should look like.

3-6) Now add some texts and light textures and it's all done. Here's my finished icon.


Hope you enjoyed these tuts!