Burnt Edges tutorial
A while back, calen383 asked me to do a tutorial for how to make this icon, and I gave her a quick synopsis, 'cause I couldn't remember exactly how I made it, but I went back and tried with another icon and now I have a tutorial for you guys. It's a lot more simple than my previous tutorial, so... yeah. XD
With this tutorial, you can learn how to go from this to
in Photoshop 7
First we start with our base, crop and sharpen once. Then, duplicate the base, destaurate it (ctrl+shift+u), and set to 50% opacity.
Next, add a new exclusion layer in the color #242442
Then, duplicate the base again and move it above the exclusion layer. Set it to softlight.
Next, create a new layer, flip the cavas horizontal, and add this brush by quebelly three times in the color #242442 to the new layer.
Set the brush layer to Hard Light and then duplicate the base. Flip the canvas back.
In your layer pallet, deselect your original base so that it's not seen and then erase the edges of the base copy. The erasing doesn't need to be exact. Actually, the less you follow the lines, it'll give more of a burnt look. Once that's done, move the base copy above the brush layer.
After that, duplicate you brush layer, move it above the base and set it on screen.
Then, I merged the layers of the icon (DO NOT flatten the image. You'll lose the transparency of the icon) and added a small text brush (by terra_katta) on Linear Burn.
Finally, I added text in Century Gothic, erased some extra areas of color and saved it as a .gif so the background would remain transparent. The End! Lemme know what you came up with! :D
With this tutorial, you can learn how to go from this to
in Photoshop 7
First we start with our base, crop and sharpen once. Then, duplicate the base, destaurate it (ctrl+shift+u), and set to 50% opacity.
Next, add a new exclusion layer in the color #242442
Then, duplicate the base again and move it above the exclusion layer. Set it to softlight.
Next, create a new layer, flip the cavas horizontal, and add this brush by quebelly three times in the color #242442 to the new layer.
Set the brush layer to Hard Light and then duplicate the base. Flip the canvas back.
In your layer pallet, deselect your original base so that it's not seen and then erase the edges of the base copy. The erasing doesn't need to be exact. Actually, the less you follow the lines, it'll give more of a burnt look. Once that's done, move the base copy above the brush layer.
After that, duplicate you brush layer, move it above the base and set it on screen.
Then, I merged the layers of the icon (DO NOT flatten the image. You'll lose the transparency of the icon) and added a small text brush (by terra_katta) on Linear Burn.
Finally, I added text in Century Gothic, erased some extra areas of color and saved it as a .gif so the background would remain transparent. The End! Lemme know what you came up with! :D