[Tutorial #7] Vibrant, Neon IU

[aurora_amethyst]

Going from this: to this:

Requested by fallleaves

For this icon, I knew I wanted to use a cutout of IU from one of her concerts, but I still wanted to give sort of a "concert" feel. Or really more of an "electric" feel, maybe! ^^

So I started with this texture by heartfullcry.



Then I added another texture, also by heartfullcry, and set it to color, 100% opacity, to give the black and white texture a little more color!



I wanted to add a little pizzazz, lol, so I added this texture from heartfullcry (again!) and set it to screen, 100% opacity.



Next, I wanted to add a bit of brightness/contrast, so I created this radial gradient and moved it down. Then I set it to soft light, 100% opacity.



At this point, I added the cutout of IU to the icon.



Lastly, I added a vibrance layer with the following settings: vibrance: 100, saturation: 100. You probably could also use a hue-saturation layer to come up with a similar effect.



Voila! There you have it!

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Comments

[fallleaves]

Thank you, so awesome and quick. Can't wait to try.

[aurora_amethyst]

You're very welcome! I hope that you'll find it useful! ^^

[facethestrange]

This is such a great icon with gorgeous coloring, and it's fun to see the process behind its composition! ♡

[aurora_amethyst]

D'awww! Thanks for your lovely comment! I'm so glad you enjoyed the process! ^^

[fallleaves]

Love this, thank you for making it!

Quick question though. For the first grey heartfullcry texture, what setting is it? It just says 'So I started with this texture by [livejournal.com profile] heartfullcry.' with no step for that one. So a bit confused on it.

[aurora_amethyst]

No problem! I started with that texture as the background, so it was on normal, 100% opacity.