Shades of Orange and Green Icon Coloring

This coloring tutorial will teach you how to achieve the soft orange color effect on your image while enhancing the appearance of green on the image. PSD file is included at the end of the post. Sample result of this coloring tutorial is shown below:




1. Open your image. Duplicate the image and set the duplicate layer to Soft Light with 50% opacity.

2. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color. Apply the settings below:
Reds: -100, 17, 84, 0
Yellows: -70, 0, -50, -33
Neutrals: 90, -10, -15, -20

3. Create another Selective Color layer. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Color. Apply the settings below:
Reds: -80, -30, -23, -6
Yellows: -87, -42, -25, -36
Whites: 27, 0, -20, 0
Neutrals: 21, 0, -15, 2

4. Increase the saturation of the image. Go to Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation. Increase the master saturation to +12

5. Finally, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels. This is my setting:
Input Levels: 40, 1.07, 255
Output Levels: 0, 255
Note that your setting doesn't have to be the same as mine. Just adjust the Input Levels by sliding the black pointer to the right or left until the coloring on your image becomes darker.

PSD File

Action File .atn
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