We Have An Emergency - Tutorial #10

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03 July 2008 @ 01:11 pm

Tutorial #10

using Photoshop 7

Someone told me I should do a tutorial for this icon, so here it is...

1) Crop your image, ect..

2) Go to Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Curves

RGB
Input: 102
Output: 115

3) Go to Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Selective Color

REDS -100/0/0/0
CYANS 0/0/-100/0
NEUTRALS 0/-18/-17/0

4) Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Selective Color

REDS -100/-16/+100/0
YELLOWS 0/+10/-100/0
BLUES 0/+24/0/0
NEUTRALS 0/-10/-17/0

5) Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Selective Color

REDS -100/-19/+100/0
YELLOWS 0/+22/-100/0
CYANS 0/+12/-27/0
BLUES 0/30/0/0
NEUTRALS 0/+4/0/-10

6) Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Selective Color

REDS -100/+11/+100/0
YELLOWS 0/+20/-20/0
NEUTRALS 0/-14/-15/+5

7) Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Selective Color

REDS -100/-24/+60/0
YELLOWS 0/+14/-100/0
CYANS 0/+24/-33/0
BLUES 0/+19/-100/0
NEUTRALS 0/-14/-16/+10

8) Go to Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Color Balance

MIDTONES +10/+10/+10
SHADOWS +10/+10/+10
HIGHLIGHTS -9/-10/-10

Make sure Preserve Luminosity is checked.

9) Go to Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Channel Mixer

RED +114/-16/-6
GREEN 0/+106/-8
BLUE 0/-8/+108

10) You can brushes, textures or text. I pasted this texture (by peoplemachines)

and set it to multiply 100%.

That's it. If you need any help please let me know. Hope you like it. :)

PSD file-
http://www.box.net/shared/2zma4k8ysw

Other icons made with this tutorial:

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mundodeamor on July 3rd, 2008 06:50 pm (UTC)

great effect! :)

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vomitcupcakes on July 3rd, 2008 06:56 pm (UTC)

hey! it only works in your pic..

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mew_ichigo786 on July 3rd, 2008 07:01 pm (UTC)

i tried it on other images and it works fine... sometimes the icon might turn all blue and ugly. go to the first curves layer and boost up the red settings. hope that helps.

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darknumb on July 3rd, 2008 06:58 pm (UTC)

beautiful tutorial, snagged the psd, thanks! :)

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whyarewedead on July 3rd, 2008 08:40 pm (UTC)

this is awesome!

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lustdrunk on July 3rd, 2008 08:54 pm (UTC)

lovelovelove the coloring! <33

i might make this into a photoshop action and post it at

psactions. you'd get full credit for the coloring. :] is that okay?

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mew_ichigo786 on July 4th, 2008 02:48 am (UTC)

sure. :)

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neliux_art on July 3rd, 2008 11:50 pm (UTC)

amazingg tutorial..
thank:]

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cajaalonso on July 4th, 2008 12:32 am (UTC)

i love the colouring,sooo pretty!

taking the psd,haha yeah I'm lazy

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rainbowchelita on July 4th, 2008 01:04 am (UTC)
Awesome Tuto!

Thanks :D

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x_fei on July 5th, 2008 04:29 am (UTC)

pretty. :D

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melaniejo on July 5th, 2008 09:23 pm (UTC)

this is beautiful. thanks. taking the psd. btw..what font did you use for the paramore text??

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mew_ichigo786 on July 6th, 2008 01:40 am (UTC)

Printed Dash.

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melaniejo on July 6th, 2008 02:50 am (UTC)

thanks so much hun!

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discobreakdownn on July 6th, 2008 02:19 pm (UTC)

this is so amazing
i LOVEEEEEE this :DD

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iseestripes on July 16th, 2008 11:40 am (UTC)

wow, great tutorial (:
hope you don't mind but i added it and another of yours to a big tutorial list i have on my journal (cause i'm hopeless - it's easier than having mems for me.)
if you want me to remove them just let me know (:
anyway, yeah, love the colouring.

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