petite_boleyn wrote in icon_tutorial 😈devious

Listens: "Mama", My Chemical Romance

Joker Tutorial

How to go from this:    to this: .

- Made in CS2
- Selective Color
- Difficulty: Easy

Now, don't get me wrong, I LOVE The Dark Knight to death, particularly The Joker. The only problem with the movie is that most caps are either too blue or too yellow. So I devised a way to fix it. 

1. New Selective Color Layer:

RED: 100, 0, -100, 0
YELLOW: 100, 0, -100, 0
CYAN: -100, 0, 100, 0
BLUE: -100, 0, 100, 0

2. Make a new layer. Fill it with a bright orange color and set it to Soft Light 30%.

3. New Curves Layer:

Input: 111
Output: 141

4. Up the Saturation of the whole icon to +30.

5. Create a new layer, fill it with a dark blue, and set it to Exclusion 100%.

6. Create a new layer, fill it with a dark brown, and set it to Exclusion 100%.

7. Duplicate your base, desaturate it, bring it to the top, and set it to Soft Light 100%.

8. The last step is to make a new layer, fill it with a light tan, and set it to Multiply 100%.

9. (Optional) I typed up "Let's put a smile on that face", rotated it, and stuck it where I wanted it. I also put some tiny text below that. (also rotated).

I really hope this is useful to somebody!  And I'd love to see what you can come up with!

PSD @ http://www.sendspace.com/file/7mm548