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I've had requests to make a tutorial on this header over at flaire_icons. This is my first tutorial, sorry that it doesn't flow very well.
You are NOT meant to follow this tutorial with these pictures which is why I haven't provided the originals.
1. Right, first things first we need to crop the base. There’s a bit too much sky in there for me, I want to make the picture a better shape to be a header. In this case I crop it to 656x400
2. Next we make a new curves adjustment layer.
RGB:
Click on the top right corner
Input: 228
Output: 255
Bottom left corner
I: 21
O: 0
The others are a little more tricky, just try and copy what they look like as close as you can, if not, try and create something you looks good.
3. Flatten image.
4. Duplicate image and now we’re going to use the blur tool to fix the face.
17 px soft brush 100%
5. Flatten and sharpen once.
6. Next I put the font on; each line of text is a separate font layer. I used courier new, 12 pt, and anti-alias: -100.
7. Arrange your font how you like it and make a new layer under all your font layers. We want to just simply go under the text roughly to make it stand out. Use this brush at 17 px. Colour #EC7676, set to hard light 50%.
8. Create a new layer. Next we want to use this brush in #FFFFFF, leave it it’s normal size and put it in the bottom right corner.
9. Ok, open another picture and crop it to 213x134. Now me need to make another curves adjustment layer to get this picture looking similar to the main header.
RGB
Top right
I: 199
O: 255
Bottom left
I: 21
O: 0
Red:
Click in the center
I: 122
O: 142
10. Now we want to paste that below all the text layers on the header. Stamp this brush by 77words over the top. Do this on the same layer as it’ll save time.
11. Edit > Free transform and rotate it until it looks right. Then place this where you want it.
12. Ok, on the layers palette right click the font layers and rasterize them. Once you’ve rasterized them start with the top font layer and merge down until they’re all merged, including the pinky layer below them. You can now move this around until it looks right.
13. Flatten image.
THAT’S IT, YOU’RE FINISHED!
You are NOT meant to follow this tutorial with these pictures which is why I haven't provided the originals.
1. Right, first things first we need to crop the base. There’s a bit too much sky in there for me, I want to make the picture a better shape to be a header. In this case I crop it to 656x400
2. Next we make a new curves adjustment layer.
RGB:
Click on the top right corner
Input: 228
Output: 255
Bottom left corner
I: 21
O: 0
The others are a little more tricky, just try and copy what they look like as close as you can, if not, try and create something you looks good.
3. Flatten image.
4. Duplicate image and now we’re going to use the blur tool to fix the face.
17 px soft brush 100%
5. Flatten and sharpen once.
6. Next I put the font on; each line of text is a separate font layer. I used courier new, 12 pt, and anti-alias: -100.
7. Arrange your font how you like it and make a new layer under all your font layers. We want to just simply go under the text roughly to make it stand out. Use this brush at 17 px. Colour #EC7676, set to hard light 50%.
8. Create a new layer. Next we want to use this brush in #FFFFFF, leave it it’s normal size and put it in the bottom right corner.
9. Ok, open another picture and crop it to 213x134. Now me need to make another curves adjustment layer to get this picture looking similar to the main header.
RGB
Top right
I: 199
O: 255
Bottom left
I: 21
O: 0
Red:
Click in the center
I: 122
O: 142
10. Now we want to paste that below all the text layers on the header. Stamp this brush by 77words over the top. Do this on the same layer as it’ll save time.
11. Edit > Free transform and rotate it until it looks right. Then place this where you want it.
12. Ok, on the layers palette right click the font layers and rasterize them. Once you’ve rasterized them start with the top font layer and merge down until they’re all merged, including the pinky layer below them. You can now move this around until it looks right.
13. Flatten image.
THAT’S IT, YOU’RE FINISHED!