Icon Recipe #2 -- How I Use Selective Color

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The bulk of this tutorial has inadvertently become "How I Use Selective Color (Hopefully for Good Rather than Neon-Colored Evil)" and I apologize upfront to GIMP and PSP users. I understand that those programs do not offer the selective color option but I have no idea how to replicate the effect in those programs as I've never used them.

avidrosette asked how I made the icon I'm using on this post. It was rather embarrassingly simple, I hate to admit. No textures. No brushes. Nothing fancy. It seems my fate that people only ask about the simplest of icons with the fewest cool "tricks." This possibly says something about misplaced pride over learning new and complex tricks (*g*) but which I'm determined to take as meaning one cannot overestimate the importance of good source material.

I started with a luscious, hi-res promo photo. It's hard to go wrong when you've gotten your hands on a gorgeous pic. Besides, who can mess up when starting with Kandyse McClure's beauty?

How I went

from: to:


( Involves several selective coloring layers )

...And, that's it! The reasoning behind selective coloring got a bit long but the icon itself is really quite simple. elfcat255, I know I still owe you the "How I Use Textures" post and I've been working on it. I find myself kind of saying "what tinamishi and sanami276 said" and pointing. :) I'm a bit intimidated. I've started it and have thought of a couple of tricks I use that aren't mentioned there but I don't have a whole lot that's new to add to their quite excellent posts.


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Icon Recipe #2 -- How I Use Selective Color

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

The bulk of this tutorial has inadvertently become "How I Use Selective Color (Hopefully for Good Rather than Neon-Colored Evil)" and I apologize upfront to GIMP and PSP users. I understand that those programs do not offer the selective color option but I have no idea how to replicate the effect in those programs as I've never used them.

avidrosette asked how I made the icon I'm using on this post. It was rather embarrassingly simple, I hate to admit. No textures. No brushes. Nothing fancy. It seems my fate that people only ask about the simplest of icons with the fewest cool "tricks." This possibly says something about misplaced pride over learning new and complex tricks (*g*) but which I'm determined to take as meaning one cannot overestimate the importance of good source material.

I started with a luscious, hi-res promo photo. It's hard to go wrong when you've gotten your hands on a gorgeous pic. Besides, who can mess up when starting with Kandyse McClure's beauty?

How I went

from: to:


( Involves several selective coloring layers )

...And, that's it! The reasoning behind selective coloring got a bit long but the icon itself is really quite simple. elfcat255, I know I still owe you the "How I Use Textures" post and I've been working on it. I find myself kind of saying "what tinamishi and sanami276 said" and pointing. :) I'm a bit intimidated. I've started it and have thought of a couple of tricks I use that aren't mentioned there but I don't have a whole lot that's new to add to their quite excellent posts.


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( Resource Credits/Links: )