So, according to link, most of toi want a tutorial for the Emilia icon. But, since many have been asking for the other two on seconde place as well, I decided to make a tutorial for each of the three of them. toi can find whichever toi want below.
The program I use is Adobe Photoshop CC, any other version photoshop should have similar if not the same settings I'm using. If you're using another program, tell me and I'll see what I can tell you.
This one is for this icon:
This icone was actually pretty easy. I don't remember having much struggle with it except for the side of her face being way too red, but that resolution is for later. Let's get to it.
First, take your original image. I made this icone for a 20in20 icontest on LJ, and the theme was profile, so I chose this beautiful profil icone of the beautiful Emilia.
My conseil to toi is to get larger images, because when toi resize them to smaller sizes, their quality becomes amazing.
After you've cropped and resized your image (I usually éditer 100x100 icons, working on lager ones and then resizing them does not work well with me, I only like the view of the original image when resized.) toi cut out the original background. Apply some brightness edits (brightness/contrast, levels, curves, etc.) to brighten your icone up a bit if toi want as well.
After this, toi apply the background par going to file > open and selecting the background of your choice. I got mine from a user I don't remember on Livejournal.
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Next, I added a levels layer with the custom preset, set on RGB, and these settings: 20, 1.00, 244 to add some depth and color to Emilia.
Then I added a photo filter layer on color. The color is a nice pinkish one, #ff6a6a. The density is 25% and the 'preserve luminosity' box is checked.
Afterwards I added a vibrance layer.
Vibrance: +43, Saturation: +12.
It looked all too not right for me, so I set a curves layer. It's gonna take a while explaining exactly how I did it, but here's a screenshot of the path:
At this point I guess I decided to make the lights on Emilia similar to the bg, so I darkened/redenned her up with another vibrance layer. This time the vibrance is set to 100 and saturation to -12.
This made the icone way too deep, so I brought out its couleurs par making a gradient fill layer.
I selected the black and white gradient and changed the black box's color to #b49c87, and the white box's to #ffe4a3. I didn't change any other settings except setting the layer's opacity to 73%.
Still, I felt the icone was missing something, so I added another gradient, this time a normal black and white one, without changing anything to its settings.
As toi can clearly see, her hair looks pretty good, but her face is way too red. I remember struggling with this a little, as I've a dit previously. I created a vibrance layer, and it either went too far ou too back, I ended up with setting the vibrance to -6, saturation to -15, and letting it go.
Of course, there was also her frown that sort of ruined the view, so I crossed it out with a white brush. The brush I used was a tilted, very thin oval that toi can find in calligraphic brushes. I always suggest toi make a new layer when drawing on your art, because then you'll be able to erase just the parts toi don't want instead of going back in history and erasing the whole thing
To add a little softness to the icone I stamped the layers again and went to filter > filter gallery > brush strokes> angled strokes. I don't remember the settings exactly, it's all up to toi anyways, but I suggest toi keep the sharpness at 0. This is for the background, mostly, which means we will erase it from the focus (Emilia), so only pay attention to the strokes on the background.
toi can either erase it with an eraser ou a layer mask (I prefer the latter). Set your eraser ou brush to a big, soft cercle one, (around 65 pixels) and blob on the focus and a bit around it as well until the strokes are only visible at the edges. It will only montrer as if you've softened the edges, really. Set the opacity to 43%.
Next, stamp the layers one plus time and go to Image > adjustments> variations. Click on 'original' (top left corner for those who don't know) then on yellow, red, lighter in that order. Set the layer to screen and opacity to 43 %.
Looks pretty good but I still thought something's missing. So I took another texture from LJ.
I set it to soft light and erased the white cercle and the are around it par blobbing with that same brush.
To finally get rid of the not so great looking cheek under the covered eyes, I set another texture.
I set it on soft light and erased it so its yellow parts would only cover Emilia's cheek.
Optional: Add text (I used A Little Sunshine) and you're done. If toi have any questions, feel free to ask.
The program I use is Adobe Photoshop CC, any other version photoshop should have similar if not the same settings I'm using. If you're using another program, tell me and I'll see what I can tell you.
This one is for this icon:
This icone was actually pretty easy. I don't remember having much struggle with it except for the side of her face being way too red, but that resolution is for later. Let's get to it.
First, take your original image. I made this icone for a 20in20 icontest on LJ, and the theme was profile, so I chose this beautiful profil icone of the beautiful Emilia.
My conseil to toi is to get larger images, because when toi resize them to smaller sizes, their quality becomes amazing.
After you've cropped and resized your image (I usually éditer 100x100 icons, working on lager ones and then resizing them does not work well with me, I only like the view of the original image when resized.) toi cut out the original background. Apply some brightness edits (brightness/contrast, levels, curves, etc.) to brighten your icone up a bit if toi want as well.
After this, toi apply the background par going to file > open and selecting the background of your choice. I got mine from a user I don't remember on Livejournal.
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v
Next, I added a levels layer with the custom preset, set on RGB, and these settings: 20, 1.00, 244 to add some depth and color to Emilia.
Then I added a photo filter layer on color. The color is a nice pinkish one, #ff6a6a. The density is 25% and the 'preserve luminosity' box is checked.
Afterwards I added a vibrance layer.
Vibrance: +43, Saturation: +12.
It looked all too not right for me, so I set a curves layer. It's gonna take a while explaining exactly how I did it, but here's a screenshot of the path:
At this point I guess I decided to make the lights on Emilia similar to the bg, so I darkened/redenned her up with another vibrance layer. This time the vibrance is set to 100 and saturation to -12.
This made the icone way too deep, so I brought out its couleurs par making a gradient fill layer.
I selected the black and white gradient and changed the black box's color to #b49c87, and the white box's to #ffe4a3. I didn't change any other settings except setting the layer's opacity to 73%.
Still, I felt the icone was missing something, so I added another gradient, this time a normal black and white one, without changing anything to its settings.
As toi can clearly see, her hair looks pretty good, but her face is way too red. I remember struggling with this a little, as I've a dit previously. I created a vibrance layer, and it either went too far ou too back, I ended up with setting the vibrance to -6, saturation to -15, and letting it go.
Of course, there was also her frown that sort of ruined the view, so I crossed it out with a white brush. The brush I used was a tilted, very thin oval that toi can find in calligraphic brushes. I always suggest toi make a new layer when drawing on your art, because then you'll be able to erase just the parts toi don't want instead of going back in history and erasing the whole thing
To add a little softness to the icone I stamped the layers again and went to filter > filter gallery > brush strokes> angled strokes. I don't remember the settings exactly, it's all up to toi anyways, but I suggest toi keep the sharpness at 0. This is for the background, mostly, which means we will erase it from the focus (Emilia), so only pay attention to the strokes on the background.
toi can either erase it with an eraser ou a layer mask (I prefer the latter). Set your eraser ou brush to a big, soft cercle one, (around 65 pixels) and blob on the focus and a bit around it as well until the strokes are only visible at the edges. It will only montrer as if you've softened the edges, really. Set the opacity to 43%.
Next, stamp the layers one plus time and go to Image > adjustments> variations. Click on 'original' (top left corner for those who don't know) then on yellow, red, lighter in that order. Set the layer to screen and opacity to 43 %.
Looks pretty good but I still thought something's missing. So I took another texture from LJ.
I set it to soft light and erased the white cercle and the are around it par blobbing with that same brush.
To finally get rid of the not so great looking cheek under the covered eyes, I set another texture.
I set it on soft light and erased it so its yellow parts would only cover Emilia's cheek.
Optional: Add text (I used A Little Sunshine) and you're done. If toi have any questions, feel free to ask.