10 Tutorial | Alexis Bledel
So according to the poll, this icon coloring came out the winner. If people are still interested in the colorings for the other ones, feel free to still request them.

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..01 Grab your picture and crop to your liking, mine is of Alexis Bledel.



..02 We all know I love me my Color Balance. New Adjustment Layer. Layers >> New Adjustment Layer >> Color Balance. Put in the following settings (Preserve Luminance Checked):
Midtones: -40, -10, 15
Shadows: -75, -40, -55
Highlights: -10,-10, -20

Set this layer to Screen.

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..03 Duplicate the Color Balance layer you just made in Step 2, set the layer to Normal - 60%.

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..04 New Adjustment Layer. Layers >> New Adjustment Layer >> Color Balance. Put in the following settings (Preserve Luminance UNchecked):
Midtones: 0, -20, 100



..05 Flood fill with #E4CCBA, set to Multiply.

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..06 New Adjustment Layer. Layers >> New Adjustment Layer >> Hue & Saturation. Put in the following settings:
Master: 30



..07 New Adjustment Layer. Layers >> New Adjustment Layer >> Curves. Put in the following settings:
RGB: I: 70, O: 90
Green: I: 89, O: 92
Blue: I: 82, O: 86
Really you could just do the RGB setting, and skip the other settings. I was just messing around with the lines, and the settings hardly make a drastic difference.



..08 New Adjustment Layer. Layers >> New Adjustment Layer >> Brightness/Contrast. Put in the following settings:
Contrast: +10

Duplicate the Adjustment Layer you just made, set it to Soft Light - 60%.

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Now you're pretty much done. However, since the main focus of my icon is the eye, I thought I'd spruce it up a bit. If your icon doesn't have a main focus, wrap it up .. you're done!

..09 Copy Merged. (CTRL+SHIFT+C / Edit >> Copy Merged). Set as new layer (CTRL+L).

- Grab your Sharpen tool (under the tool palette). I made my settings somewhere around Size: 10, Hardness: 50, Opacity: 3.
Go over Alexis' eye once, in one montion. Meaning, don't click and then unclick and then click and then unclick. Just click on the eye, and drag around the eye/eyelashes. I also went over the earring for good measure.

- Grab your Dodge tool (under the tool palette). I made my settings somewhere around Size: 5, Hardness: 0, Opacity: 35.
Go over Alexis' entire eye (white's included). I also went over the earring.

- Grab your Burn tool (under the toolpalette). I made my settings somewhere around Size: 2, Hardness: 0, Opacity: 35.
Go over the outside of Alexis' eye, and eyeliner.

And that's it. Feel free to add any finishing touches, I just added text (bellaluna, in Babelsans - size 11 - kearning: -85)

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For those that need it, my layers:



And different outcomes using different pictures. The last one is using a screencapture, so remember that you will need to prepare your base before hand, with Screen/Softlight Layers.