I had to sit down and think about how to explain this since my coloring style is so dang messy lol
Ok, so! I have a 3 step process that usually results in me having at least 3 different psds open.
1) This is our "base." A few selective color layers, saturation, color balance, flat color layers, and whatever else you usually use. It's already technically been messed around with, but we aren't done yet! Copy+merge and paste it onto a new PSD.
2) More filters! I often like how the "base" icon looks, but there's certain aspects of it that I really don't like a lot of times too. However, if I took those aspects out of it, then I'd lose a lot of what I liked about the coloring. That's why I tend to play around with curves, color balance, and things like that on the icon itself afterwards.
3) After you're done with that, then just do whatever it is like you to do to icons after you've got your coloring on it.
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Ok, so! I have a 3 step process that usually results in me having at least 3 different psds open.
1) This is our "base." A few selective color layers, saturation, color balance, flat color layers, and whatever else you usually use. It's already technically been messed around with, but we aren't done yet! Copy+merge and paste it onto a new PSD.
2) More filters! I often like how the "base" icon looks, but there's certain aspects of it that I really don't like a lot of times too. However, if I took those aspects out of it, then I'd lose a lot of what I liked about the coloring. That's why I tend to play around with curves, color balance, and things like that on the icon itself afterwards.
3) After you're done with that, then just do whatever it is like you to do to icons after you've got your coloring on it.
Annnd, that's basically it!