TUTORIAL
 
 

Today, we’re going to make a nuzzly icon. i love the nuzzle. the nuzzle is so very underrated. okay, lets make with the pretty.
 
 
we’re going from to
 
 

take your base, mine is this picture from galeonline.net:
 

 
 

crop it, resize to 100×100, sharpen. you end up with this:

duplicate your base, set it to screen, opacity 100%
 
new adjustment layer, color balance – settings:
midtones: +11, +32, +50
shadows: -33, +14, +25
highlights: -11, +13, +53.
 
 

once you do that, you end up with this:

 
new adjustment layer, channel mixer – settings:
red
red -+142%
green – -60%
blue – 0
constant – 0
 
green
red – +8%
green – +78%
blue – +24
constant – +4
 
blue
red – -3%
green – +18%
blue – +84%
constant – 0
 
 

New adjustment layer, channel mixer – settings:
green
red – 0
green – +100%
blue – +6%
constant – 0
 
 once you do those, you end up with this:

 
 new adjustment layer, curves – settings:
rgb
first point – input: 92 output: 132
red
first point – input: 103 output: 121
second point – input: 61 output: 81
green
first point – input: 127 output: 123
second point – input: 83 output 78
blue
first point – input: 96 output 135
 
once you do that, your icon looks like this:

 
 new adjustment layer, color balance – settings:
midtones: +15 +8 +23
you end up with this:

 
 duplicate your base, drag it to the top, set it to screen – opacity 100%
 
 new adjustment layer, hue/saturation – settings:
saturation: -11
 
 duplicate your base, drag it to the top, set it to screen – opacity 42%

new adjustment layer, color fill – fill with #09192f, set to exclusion – opacity 60%
 
 take this texture from unmasked_icons, paste it, and set it to screen – opacity 30%

 
 merge visible: shift+ctrl+alt+e, set to softlight – opacity 58%, sharpen again.
 
 use your blur tool, brush 5px, strength 19% on their faces/brian’s neck if you need to, it’s up to you.
 
 flatten your image and you’re done! here is the final product:

 
 here is my layer palette:

 
 

Comments are lovely, and so are questions. If you do end up using this I would love to see what you make out of it!
 
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