Screen Caps Icon Tutorial

Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2

Translatable: YES!

Involves: Curves & Levels & Color Balance

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Examples







1) Crop your base to 100x100.



2) New Adjustment Layer: Curves

RGB: (192,239) (58,133)



3) New Adjustment Layer: Levels

Input: 15, 1.40, 255



4) New Raster Layer: #bde4ff. Multiply @ 20%.



5) New Raster Layer: #35210c. Exclusion @ 70%.



6) Duplicate the base, drag it to the top. Screen @ 100%.



7) Duplicate the layer in step 6 and change the opacity to 25%.



8) New Adjustment Layer: Brightness/Contrast

Brightness: 1

Contrast: 10



9) New Adjustment Layer: Color Balance

Midtones: -5, -5, -10

Shadows: +10, -10, -10

Highlights: +5, +5, +5


10) New Adjustment Layer: Hue/Saturation

Master Saturation: +10






*Optional: Sharpen your image if needed.



Examples (These were all screen caps!)





I'd love to see results!!