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Jun 24, 2005 02:52

woo my first tutorial evah!

How to go from
to

I used PS CS to do this, but it can easily be translated into PSP :)

1. Choose a pic. Crop it to 100x100. Sharpen if needed. (I chose this, and I can't remember where I found it. Help?)

2. Duplicate your base, set to screen 100%, duplicate again and set to soft light 100%.

We now have this:


3. Create a new layer and fill it with a gradient. I used this

4. Set that layer to Overlay 100%

This is the result so far:


5. Create a new layer and choose another gradient. Mine was

6. Set to Hard Light 100%

This is what we got now:


7. Go to the base layer and duplicate it. Set it to soft light 100% and drag it to the top of the other layers.

You should get this:


8. Create a new layer and fill it with dark blue (I used #000349) and set that layer to Exclusion 100%

Whee!


9. Create yet another new layer *sigh* and add this light texture
put it above the Exlusion layer and set it to Soft Light 100%

Now we have this:


10. Once again, create a new layer and add this base

11. Set to Overlay 100%

12. Drag that layer and put it under the Exclusion layer (remember the dark blue filled one? Yep, that's it.)

You should get this:


13. Create a new layer right above the previous one (the one with the pink base from step #10) and add a few brushes of your choice. The color I used for the brush is #E5B2B9 and I used this mix of brushes:
. Blend mode set to Normal 100%

So far we have this:


14. Now you can stop here if you like. But you can also add a nice and simple border to the icon. To do so, create a new layer on the top of all of the others. Add a border brush, color #FFFFFF (aka white). I used this

And this is the final result:


By the end your layer palette should look like this:


Note: you can add a text if you want. I'd recommend doing it in white and putting it under the Exclusion layer for better effect :)

CREDITS:
Gradients from zephia
Light texture from fading_melody
Base from colorfilter
Brushes from Hybrid Genesis
Border brush from 10000_pixels

SQUEEEE!!!!!!! *iz ded*
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