Tutorial 01

[acidic_icons]

Ooh. Hi there. And welcome to my very first tutorial. Are you excited?

Anywho, I'm sure you're not. But we're going to be making this icon :

Comments

[dark_angel869]

what font did you use in your icon?

[sweetest_potato]

The larger one is American Typewriter, and the teeny one is Bradley Hand ICT TT.

[phenomenologic]

May I ask, how do you use the smudge tool without the different colours running all over the place/the lines dissolving like really scary candle wax? When I try to use it (no matter how slowly I go), either the opacity is too low to make a difference, or...yeah... Is my hand just too unwieldy?

[sweetest_potato]

Lower the opacity of your smudge tool, to about 8% and that should be enough.

[phenomenologic]

(bows about a million times) Thank you thank you thank you thank you!

[sweetest_potato]

Lol. You're welcome. Glad I could help.

[__rockmonkey__]

I tried to download American Typewriter from fonts.com, and its like $150 dollars!! WTF? I tried dafont.com, but its not there! Where can I get it for free?

[sweetest_potato]

I had no idea it was that expensive, it just came with my computer. But you can get a whole load of free typewriter style fonts from dafont.com.

[mizugazipan]

added to mems.

[pc_timestwo]

Very helpful tut and that icon is so gorgeous :-)
May I ask though, how did you get the word 'glossed' to tilt at that angle - whenever I try that with text, it goes all out of focus and blurry?!

[sweetest_potato]

You can indeed. I did it by using free transform. I think it's edit>>free tranform.

Don't adjust the size or anything, because that will make it blurry, just roate it.

[pc_timestwo]

Thanks - that's what I do already though and it goes blurry.... maybe I am using the wrong fonts - will experiment!