First icon tutorial!
As requested by 
xinederella! It's a simple tutorial, just an alternative way to get a bright colouring. I hope it isn't too radioactive D:
This tutorial is made using Photoshop CS3.
Anyway, on to the tutorial. Right, first get your screencap. Now obviously this type of colouring doesn't work with everything. It best works with caps that have some kind of red/orange and blue in them as the selective colouring just enhances those colours.
So, get your screencap . So just a simple Aang screencap, it's already pretty bright and got some really nice colour in it.
So, first step: Crop your icon. That's pretty simple, I don't need to explain that right?
So second step: Depending on your cap, you will probably need to set it to screen. I set this cap to Screen 52%. The cap was already pretty bright so I just decreased the opacity a bit so that it didn't glare.
So third step: Sometimes I then add a soft light layer to add a bit of contrast. Not always necessary, up to the icon makers opinion. In this instance I set it once again to 52% opacity.
Should be looking something like this perhaps:
So fourth step: Selective colouring time! If you don't know where the selective colouring It's the thing that looks like a sun with a dark and light side... Press that sun, and then scroll up to "selective colouring".
Settings for this icon:
Right, so after those setting my Aang icon looked like this:
So it went from -->
to 
Then you can just add text and what not to the icon :D
Other icons using this colouring, or very similar
Just remember that every icon is different, the selective colouring steps wont work the same for every cap. There might be minor differences, don't necessarily follow this with no variations.
Erm, that's it! This was my first tutorial by the way ^^
Sorry about getting the rules wrong the first time D:
xinederella! It's a simple tutorial, just an alternative way to get a bright colouring. I hope it isn't too radioactive D:Anyway, on to the tutorial. Right, first get your screencap. Now obviously this type of colouring doesn't work with everything. It best works with caps that have some kind of red/orange and blue in them as the selective colouring just enhances those colours.
So, get your screencap . So just a simple Aang screencap, it's already pretty bright and got some really nice colour in it.
So, first step: Crop your icon. That's pretty simple, I don't need to explain that right?
So second step: Depending on your cap, you will probably need to set it to screen. I set this cap to Screen 52%. The cap was already pretty bright so I just decreased the opacity a bit so that it didn't glare.
So third step: Sometimes I then add a soft light layer to add a bit of contrast. Not always necessary, up to the icon makers opinion. In this instance I set it once again to 52% opacity.
Should be looking something like this perhaps:
So fourth step: Selective colouring time! If you don't know where the selective colouring It's the thing that looks like a sun with a dark and light side... Press that sun, and then scroll up to "selective colouring".
Settings for this icon:
Right, so after those setting my Aang icon looked like this:
So it went from -->
Then you can just add text and what not to the icon :D
Just remember that every icon is different, the selective colouring steps wont work the same for every cap. There might be minor differences, don't necessarily follow this with no variations.
Erm, that's it! This was my first tutorial by the way ^^