| 1) Take your original image and crop, sharpen and smooth as required. (I actually like to duplicate the base, sharpen it and then reduce the opacity as desired) |
|
 |
| 2) Duplicate your base and set it to screen, opacity 67. |
|
 |
| 3) Duplicate your base again and set it to soft light, opacity 25. |
|
 |
| 4) Duplicate your base again, desaturate it and set it to soft light, opacity 37 |
|
 |
| 5) Create a gradient fill layer (or create a new layer and fill it with a gradient) and using this gradient (from Advanced Photoshop I think) set the layer to pin light, opacity 26 |
 |
 |
| 6) Create a Selective Colour adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Colour) and set it to:
Reds: -81 -16 +23 0
Yellows: +33 +18 -44 0
Neutrals: +3 0 +5 0 |
|
 |
| 7) Create a Selective Colour adjustment layer and set it to:
Reds: +13 -4 -6 0
Yellows: +14 0 -6 -25
Neutrals: +17 +1 -3 -4
|
|
 |
| 8) Create a Selective Colour adjustment layer and set it to:
Reds: -25 +4 +7 0
Yellows: 0 +8 +9 0
Neutrals: -3 0 0 0 |
|
 |
| 9) Create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation) and set it to:
Satuation: +11 |
|
 |
| 10) Create a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast) and set it to:
Brightness: +4
Contrast: +8 |
|
 |
| 11) Paste this desaturated version of a texture by (?) into a new layer, above the screened copy of the base and below the two soft light layers, and set it to screen, opacity 57. I also erased part of the texture so that it wasn't covering Fernando. |
 |
 |
| 12) Create a new layer between the hue/saturation layer and the brightness/contrast layer. With a large soft brush paint on the layer with the colour #005395. Set it to lighten, opacity 100. On this icon the blue is down the left hand side.
|
|
 |
| 13) Add a large soft orange (#C83827) circular brush onto a new layer and set it to lighten, opacity 100. On this icon it's down in the bottom right corner. |
|
 |
| 14) To finish the icon off I added some decorative text below the screened version of the base (above the sharpened copy of it) and changed the opacities until I was happy with how they looked. |
|
 |
| My layers look like this. |
|
|
| Another icon made with similar layers is this one. The main difference is the addition of an exclusion layer between the screened and soft light versions of the base. Create a new layer and flood fill it with #160744 and set it to exclusion, opacity 24. The layers for this icon look like this. |
|
 |