Sorry that it was taken me so long to get back to your request. I've been thinking about how best to handle the other three icons you asked about because they're all made in essentially the same way:
1. Prepare base. Adjust lighting. 2. Add a yellow soft light layer. 3. Manipulate color so that you warm the reds/yellows (use selective coloring to add red/magenta/yellow to reds and yellows) and to cool the neutrals (add cyan/green/blue to neutrals), 3. Manipulate a little further using color balance to differentiate shadows/midtone/highlight coloring. 4. Adjust saturation and subtract some of the yellows. 5. Fiddle with lighting/contrast.
This was a really popular technique for several years. Every tutorial was "add yellow on soft yellow, slap on 3-5 selective coloring layers, call it done." I KNOW that I made these using various tutorials but one has been deleted and I can't find the other. I feel it would be wrong to write a tutorial for public use that is, essentially, somebody else's process. However, you want to know how I did it and I'm happy to show you.
Would you be able to use the *.psd files? I can upload them for you if that's sufficient. If you would feel more comfortable with an explanation of what I did, then I'll put one together for you. Just let me know what would be most useful. :D
ETA: I forgot to add that I don't use this method any more because I think it tends to compromise image quality with the soft light layer and the saturation layer. I think it's possible to get crisper images using other methods but I made icons for years using essentially this formula and got lots of comments about how crisp everything was so I might be full of it.
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Date: 2010-09-21 10:39 am (UTC)1. Prepare base. Adjust lighting.
2. Add a yellow soft light layer.
3. Manipulate color so that you warm the reds/yellows (use selective coloring to add red/magenta/yellow to reds and yellows) and to cool the neutrals (add cyan/green/blue to neutrals),
3. Manipulate a little further using color balance to differentiate shadows/midtone/highlight coloring.
4. Adjust saturation and subtract some of the yellows.
5. Fiddle with lighting/contrast.
This was a really popular technique for several years. Every tutorial was "add yellow on soft yellow, slap on 3-5 selective coloring layers, call it done." I KNOW that I made these using various tutorials but one has been deleted and I can't find the other. I feel it would be wrong to write a tutorial for public use that is, essentially, somebody else's process. However, you want to know how I did it and I'm happy to show you.
Would you be able to use the *.psd files? I can upload them for you if that's sufficient. If you would feel more comfortable with an explanation of what I did, then I'll put one together for you. Just let me know what would be most useful. :D
ETA: I forgot to add that I don't use this method any more because I think it tends to compromise image quality with the soft light layer and the saturation layer. I think it's possible to get crisper images using other methods but I made icons for years using essentially this formula and got lots of comments about how crisp everything was so I might be full of it.