[ 4 Comments ] Posted by risabesu about 412 days ago in Blog, Tutorials, Tutorials with PSDs

Hey everyone! How’s your new year going? We’re happy to say our new year is going good. KI placed 2nd in Divine Designs iPhone Instigation contest. Glad to have placed because it was entered on a whim. 8D Furthermore, I’m looking for more contests to join, just because it’s awesomely good fun. If anyone’s having any, feel free to use the comments to advertise.

Onto Tutorial Thursday, recently I got a request email and for this week’s tutorial we’re doing another adventure into reds. This tutorial is more intense with the colors. In all reality, it makes reds and oranges appear where there were none to begin with. So, let’s do this.

Alright. So first we take a cropped 100 x 100 base. Doesn’t matter really but the blander the colors, you’ll get about the same result as I got. This tutorial works especially well with manga bases that you’ve colored yourself. Get yourself a texture you’d like to use as a background. This icon works as well without a background. But, it’s your choice.

Your first layer should be your background. Second layer should be your cropped base. Set your base to multiply 100%. You can make any little edits you want now. Usually, if a part of the background runs through an important part of the icon, use a white or gray to cover up or “erase” some of the background so it doesn’t interfere with the icon’s subject.

Now let’s get to the adjustment layers.

Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation. You just need to edit ‘Master’ by entering these numbers into the field or adjusting the slider, kay? Whichever. Here ya go.

• Hue: -8
• Saturation: +54
• Lightness: 0

Next, Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color.

Reds -

• Cyan: +1%
• Magenta: +100%
• Yellow: +100%
• Black: -26%

Yellows -

• Cyan: -45%
• Magenta: +50%
• Yellow: -77%
• Black:  0%

Greens -

• Cyan: 0%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black:  0%

Cyans -

• Cyan: +100%
• Magenta: +80%
• Yellow: -100%
• Black:  0%

Blues -

• Cyan: 0%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black:  0%

Magentas -

• Cyan: 0%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black:  0%

Whites -

• Cyan: +77%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black:  0%

Neutrals -

• Cyan: +100%
• Magenta: -14%
• Yellow: +10%
• Black:  -8%

Blacks -

• Cyan: 0%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black:  0%

NEXT, Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color. When the color selector comes up, copy and paste hex code #f26d7d into the bottom field. Hit okay and then done. Fill layers are so easy. ;D

Next, Another Selective Color Layer.  Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color.

Reds -

• Cyan: -100%
• Magenta: +100%
• Yellow: +100%
• Black: 0%

Yellows -

• Cyan: +17%
• Magenta: -38%
• Yellow: -100%
• Black:  0%

Greens -

• Cyan: 0%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black:  0%

Cyans -

• Cyan: +100%
• Magenta: -50%
• Yellow: +1%
• Black:  +27%

Blues -

• Cyan: 0%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black:  0%

Magentas -

• Cyan: +98%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black:  0%

Whites -

• Cyan: -21%
• Magenta: -26%
• Yellow: -18%
• Black:  +24%

Neutrals -

• Cyan: -50%
• Magenta: -27%
• Yellow: -57%
• Black:  -6%

Blacks -

• Cyan: 0%
• Magenta: 0%
• Yellow: 0%
• Black:  0%

NEXT, Another beautiful and easy Fill Layer.  Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Color. When the color selector comes up, copy and paste hex code #d8d0a9 into the bottom field.

Okie doke. That wraps it up. And for you lazy peoples, there’s a psd. Once again, comment and let us know what you think and we’d love to see your results.

MOAR REDS 02 (93.6 KiB)

Commentators: Albelnox, Ka-chan, sachiko, Yvette,

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[ No Comments ] Posted by risabesu about 548 days ago in Blog

I love funny stuff. Like a lot. I love to laugh at things on facebook like statuses from the status shuffle application. And I love people’s anger. And when you combine funny and angry you get semi-anonymous hilarity most of the time. On facebook, you know who said it but what are you going to do? Hit the ‘dislike’ button. PFFT! They don’t have one. Or, man, what I would give for a “Do Not Care” button.

One of these days, I’ll go through my list of friends and weed out who I seriously could care less about and get rid of the ‘pity pancakes’ friends or the ‘oh I went to high school with him’ friends. Until then, I’ll laugh endlessly at their losing at life when they text facebook with their ‘Who wants to hang out at Spanky’s bar tonight?’

For now, though, since kurenaicons is practically done and ready to launch… I added 10 new icons to brighten your day. They’re all from 4-chan and all are equally hilarious.

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