Fun Backdrop colours - Photoshop

[fightstarr]

I love playing with wild colours in icons. There's no limit to what you can create. I often like to change the "backdrop" or background colour of an icon to something bright and fun. There is probably already a tutorial on this, but what will one more hurt?
From a lime green background to

Comments

[areyoudying]

Very nice. =]
+mems.

May I ask you what font you used? It looks really cool.

[fightstarr]

It's called Quesnell and you can get it here:
http://www.fontgarden.com/gallery/q/q.html

[areyoudying]

Thank you. =]

[cheeky_chimp]

Adding to mems to experiment later
this looks like a great tutorial! :)

[thisdelicateone]

im excited to try! mems. thanks!

[amortentia_gal]

interesting tutorial.

I love your icon of alexz!! I love Instant Star, and I love both soundtracks from it.

[riddler_]

Very cool! The orange background makes the icon look brighter.