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I'm finally posting! OHEMGEE.. Anyways, Sorry for the lack of.. anything! lol.. Being without internet sucks muchly... I can only get on twice a week for a few hours!!! Anyways, I wrote a tutorial up like 2 weeks ago, and now I'm finally posting it!!! As for icons, I'm hoping to post next week.. I made a shit ton of Kingdom Hearts icons, and a few POTC AWE icons, and I've been trying to find some good quality POTC DMC caps.. I'm planning to do some of that movie, and I might do a few of the first movie too, bc i watched it the other night and theres a few scenes I wanna do now :P I made up a new layout, and it MIGHT be up today.. If it won't take too long, because I really like it a lot.. I know, I'm a layout whore..
Also, I've been building a website w/ frontpage over the last week, since I literally hvae nothing to do... It'll be really nice, because it will have all my icons as of like the last 5 posts, as well as all of my non icon graphics, most of which i havn't had the time or patience to post here.. It'll also have all of my tutorials, as well as a few other things.. I hope to have it up w/in the next month, but first I have to figure out how to get it up, and since its pretty massive, it might take a while just to get up! I'll make sure to let you guys know when its up :)
ANYWAYS, on to the tutorial!!! And btw, I don't have a .psd file :( I tried to remember to save one, but I forgot.. again :P
How to go from THIS >>
to THIS >>
1. Get your cap and crop it. I crop everything with the cropper set to 100x100, so you won't have to worry about funny resizing. I then shrank the image to 200x200.
2. Duplicate the base and smart sharpen it. Delete the original base layer. My settings for smart sharpening are:
Amount: 104%
Radius: 64 pixels
Remove: Gauissian Blur
3. Create a new layer and fill it with a light tan color (#fee7ae) and set it to Multiply 100%.
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4. Create a new layer and fill it with a light pink color (#f1b2ff) and set it to Soft Light 70%.
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5. Create a new layer and fill it with a light cyan color (#c0fff8) and set it to Color Burn 70%.
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6. Create a new Color Balance layer (Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Color Balance). Settings for the Color Balance layer:
Color Levels: +100/-22/-58
Tone Balance: Midtones
Preserve Luminosity: Checked
7. I decided it was a little too dark at this point. I went down and duplicated the base layer, and set it to Screen 75% opacity. I know this is a little random stuck in here, but I tend to put off putting in a Screen layer sometimes until I think it actually needs it.
8. Create a new Color Balance layer. Settings for the Color Balance layer:
Color Levels: -14/0/+21
Tone Balance: Midtones
Preserve Luminosity: Checked
9. Resize the image to 100x100. I like all of my icons to have a soft look, because I hate oversharpening, so I always stamp all the layers into one new layer (Ctrl>Shift>Alt>E), Gaussian Blur the layer (Radius: .5), and set it to Darken at 40%. For the last step, I added some tiny text in the upper right hand corner of the icon in the blackish area.
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It's not EXACTLY the same as the original, but I think its the closest I've ever gotten in a tutorial!
Original Icon:
If anyone would like to request another tutorial for a different icon, you can drop me a comment HERE and I'll try to get to it ASAP :)
Also, I've been building a website w/ frontpage over the last week, since I literally hvae nothing to do... It'll be really nice, because it will have all my icons as of like the last 5 posts, as well as all of my non icon graphics, most of which i havn't had the time or patience to post here.. It'll also have all of my tutorials, as well as a few other things.. I hope to have it up w/in the next month, but first I have to figure out how to get it up, and since its pretty massive, it might take a while just to get up! I'll make sure to let you guys know when its up :)
ANYWAYS, on to the tutorial!!! And btw, I don't have a .psd file :( I tried to remember to save one, but I forgot.. again :P
How to go from THIS >>
to THIS >>
1. Get your cap and crop it. I crop everything with the cropper set to 100x100, so you won't have to worry about funny resizing. I then shrank the image to 200x200.
2. Duplicate the base and smart sharpen it. Delete the original base layer. My settings for smart sharpening are:
Amount: 104%
Radius: 64 pixels
Remove: Gauissian Blur
3. Create a new layer and fill it with a light tan color (#fee7ae) and set it to Multiply 100%.
>>>>>
4. Create a new layer and fill it with a light pink color (#f1b2ff) and set it to Soft Light 70%.
>>>>>
5. Create a new layer and fill it with a light cyan color (#c0fff8) and set it to Color Burn 70%.
>>>>>
6. Create a new Color Balance layer (Layer>New Adjustment Layer>Color Balance). Settings for the Color Balance layer:
Color Levels: +100/-22/-58
Tone Balance: Midtones
Preserve Luminosity: Checked
7. I decided it was a little too dark at this point. I went down and duplicated the base layer, and set it to Screen 75% opacity. I know this is a little random stuck in here, but I tend to put off putting in a Screen layer sometimes until I think it actually needs it.
8. Create a new Color Balance layer. Settings for the Color Balance layer:
Color Levels: -14/0/+21
Tone Balance: Midtones
Preserve Luminosity: Checked
9. Resize the image to 100x100. I like all of my icons to have a soft look, because I hate oversharpening, so I always stamp all the layers into one new layer (Ctrl>Shift>Alt>E), Gaussian Blur the layer (Radius: .5), and set it to Darken at 40%. For the last step, I added some tiny text in the upper right hand corner of the icon in the blackish area.
>>>>>
It's not EXACTLY the same as the original, but I think its the closest I've ever gotten in a tutorial!
Original Icon:
If anyone would like to request another tutorial for a different icon, you can drop me a comment HERE and I'll try to get to it ASAP :)