Icon Colorization

Step One: Crop your image so that it will be 100x100. This is the image I am using. Go ahead and use it if you would like to.

Step Two: Sharpen your base image.

Step three: Duplicate your base image and set it to screen 100%.

Step four: Duplicate your base again and set it to screen 45%.

Step five: Go to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Levels and put these settings: 44, 1,17, 255.

Step six: Go to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Color Balance and put these settings:
Midtones: 4, 11, 59 Shadows: 4, -11, 11 Highlights: 5, 5, 72.

Step seven: Go to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Selective Coloring
Reds: 8,7,-52,-11
Neutrals: 14,4,-8,11
Blacks: 9,14,30,-26


Step eight: Use this gradient and set it to soft light 100%.

Step nine: Use this gradient and set it to soft light 100%.

Step ten: Set this gradient to multiply 25%.

Step eleven: Make a new fill layer with the color cb2f45 and set to Exclusion 15%.

Final Step!

Step twelve: Duplicate base layer and drag it to the top. Sharpen it, again, and set it to soft light, 49%. And this should be your final outcome!
I hope you liked the tutorial!

nice!

Neato. ;]]]
Thanks for posting.

Author	chirocracy
Submitted on	Dec 31, 2008
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Reviewer	manny-the-dino
Approved on	Dec 31, 2008

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