Icon Tutorial

[mss_celestal]

* Made an icon by accident recently and was asked if I could make a tutorial for it. It's not the exact icon, but it's close. Hopefully it's helpful to everyone.
* I use PSP8, but it's mostly likely translatable in all versions and PS.

From this:
to this:

1. Make your base. Do whatever your heart desires here.



2. Add a Brightness/Contrast layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Brightness/Contrast). Contrast +50 and the Brightness +30



3. Add a Hue/Saturation/Lightness Layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Hue/Saturation/Lightness Laye). Saturation +25 and set layer to darken.



4. Duplicate base, move it to the top, and set to Soft Light at 50%. Sharpen the Soft Light layer at twice.



5. Merge all layers and go in with a soften brush at 15% Opacity to touch up the face.



6. Select the background, cut and paste it moving the person to the top.


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7. Overlay the red texture made by me over the background and set to darken.


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8. Overlay the blue texture made by me on top and set to lighten.


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9. Overlay the blue texture made by me on top and set to exclusion.



10. Preset tool shape using the Callout shape on top of the red texture



11. Text layer- 'Batman Beat the hell outta me' font (I kid you not, that is the font's name), 22pt, white.



Th-th-th-th-That's all, Folks...LOL!! Let me know what y'all think about it!!