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severalplums2010-06-26 03:11 pm
pensnest) wrote in severalplums2010-06-26 03:11 pm
Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #95 by pensnest
Hi all, thanks for the votes, and sorry I'm just squeaking in with this tutorial—it's show week this week so there has been a lot of time spent on rehearsals, on the programme, on costumes, and on lolling around recovering!
Anyway. This icon was made (with quite a lot of frustrated screeching) in PS CS5, but it is actually very 'old school' and completely translatable.
I wanted a very close crop, so selected a square from the original picture, opened a 100x100 new document and put the cropped square into it, then rescaled the lily until it fitted where I wanted it to. I often find that I need to do this when I'm not quite sure how best to crop from the original.
I copied the base twice, set the lower to Color Burn and the upper to Multiply, which as you can see gives much more colour and definition to the flower.
But I had the idea of the colour change in mind, and did a very simple Color Fill layer using efd8a2, a medium yellow. Set to Color.
Of course, this has made it all rather bland, so I copied the base layer twice more, this time setting the lower one to Multiply and the upper to Color Burn. Fortunately for everybody's patience I don't keep track of all the messing about and swapping of layers that lies behind into such a simple statement!
I did a Merge Visible layer, and duplicated it (didn't really need to duplicate it, but I'm in the habit of doing that). I applied a Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur of 7.0 to the duplicate of the Merged layer, and after some fiddling set this to Hard Light, which softens up the rather sharp edges and gives it a lovely glow.
Finally I wanted a bit more of a blush effect on the inner petals, so I used a small soft-edged brush at a low opacity, with colour f6d1d1 (pale rosy pink) to paint a little colour into the petals on a new layer. Then I duplicated this layer, applied a Gaussian Blur again. Both these layers set to Multiply. It's subtle, but there is a difference.
So there we are, very simple indeed! The most frustrating part was having to cope with an updated program, grrrr.
Here's the Layers palette.
Anyway. This icon was made (with quite a lot of frustrated screeching) in PS CS5, but it is actually very 'old school' and completely translatable.
I wanted a very close crop, so selected a square from the original picture, opened a 100x100 new document and put the cropped square into it, then rescaled the lily until it fitted where I wanted it to. I often find that I need to do this when I'm not quite sure how best to crop from the original.
I copied the base twice, set the lower to Color Burn and the upper to Multiply, which as you can see gives much more colour and definition to the flower.
But I had the idea of the colour change in mind, and did a very simple Color Fill layer using efd8a2, a medium yellow. Set to Color.
Of course, this has made it all rather bland, so I copied the base layer twice more, this time setting the lower one to Multiply and the upper to Color Burn. Fortunately for everybody's patience I don't keep track of all the messing about and swapping of layers that lies behind into such a simple statement!
I did a Merge Visible layer, and duplicated it (didn't really need to duplicate it, but I'm in the habit of doing that). I applied a Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur of 7.0 to the duplicate of the Merged layer, and after some fiddling set this to Hard Light, which softens up the rather sharp edges and gives it a lovely glow.
Finally I wanted a bit more of a blush effect on the inner petals, so I used a small soft-edged brush at a low opacity, with colour f6d1d1 (pale rosy pink) to paint a little colour into the petals on a new layer. Then I duplicated this layer, applied a Gaussian Blur again. Both these layers set to Multiply. It's subtle, but there is a difference.
So there we are, very simple indeed! The most frustrating part was having to cope with an updated program, grrrr.
Here's the Layers palette.