As per request of Silvery. Me making mah icons.

So I'm going to start with this one:

:and pretty much all of the same "set" will be basically the same steps.

To start with, I get a ton of my pictures (including this one) from Rawr Caps.

So, get the picture, put on 100x100, size, duplicate.
Set duplicate to screen 100%.
Sharpen the top layer.



Make a new fill layer with brown, set to exclusion.
Make a new channel mixer layer.
Reduce the red and blue under the red channel by around 10.



Selective Color. I have fun with this. HIGH SATURATION!


Because there is little blue and mucho other colors, I do a lot of high numbers to bring the blue out. This isn't always the case.



To make it more contrasted, add a new levels layer. Bring the shadow (left side) in to about 17, and the light (right) in til it looks good enough.



To finish, I like to add a little speck of "light glare." Brush a spot of white onto it and do a gaussion blur.

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Nurr tutorial ftw! It's just in time for me to use my darling Selective Coloring before my trial of CS5 runs out. I will definitely stop studying for my test later tonight and have fun with this tutorial. Thank youuuu!

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i'm back for a little! i'll see how this visit goes.

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You're welcome!

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