//tutorials: 001
Hello, and welcome to owlicon's Icon Lesson #1!
Today, we are going from this to this - keep in mind that I did this on Adobe Photoshop CS, but I think it'll be simple fore others to translate it. Yarr!
//tutorial.001
// I started with this cap (by indilime - thank you!).
// First, I selected this area, and then resized it to 100x100. I sharpened it twice ( Filter >> Sharpen >> Sharpen ):
// I softned their skins with the Blur tool with the Soft Round brush at 5px.
// Although, it's too dark, isn't it? So I adjusted its contrast and brightness ( Image >> Adjustments >> Brightness/Contrast ). I set the Brightness to +5 and the Contrast to +40. Then I duplicated the base twice. The one directly above the base had its Saturation changed to -37 ( Image >> Adjustments >> Hue/Saturation ) and then was set to Soft Light (100%). The top layer I set it to Screen (100%).
// I used a gradient made by 77words and set it to Color Burn at 33%.
// I then filled a new layer with a dark red ( I used #401400 ) and set it to Color Dodge at 55%.
// From which I came with this:
// Now I grabbed a light texture from ashke_icons.
// I set it to Screen at 100%.
// For the text (Tori Amos: "General Joy") I used Georgia at 6px, type Crisp and space at 200.
// Finally, for the border, I used teh_indy brush:
// And I was done. :D
That's all for today's lesson! Hope it was hopeful. :)
Today, we are going from this to this - keep in mind that I did this on Adobe Photoshop CS, but I think it'll be simple fore others to translate it. Yarr!
//tutorial.001
// I started with this cap (by indilime - thank you!).
// First, I selected this area, and then resized it to 100x100. I sharpened it twice ( Filter >> Sharpen >> Sharpen ):
// I softned their skins with the Blur tool with the Soft Round brush at 5px.
// Although, it's too dark, isn't it? So I adjusted its contrast and brightness ( Image >> Adjustments >> Brightness/Contrast ). I set the Brightness to +5 and the Contrast to +40. Then I duplicated the base twice. The one directly above the base had its Saturation changed to -37 ( Image >> Adjustments >> Hue/Saturation ) and then was set to Soft Light (100%). The top layer I set it to Screen (100%).
// I used a gradient made by 77words and set it to Color Burn at 33%.
// I then filled a new layer with a dark red ( I used #401400 ) and set it to Color Dodge at 55%.
// From which I came with this:
// Now I grabbed a light texture from ashke_icons.
// I set it to Screen at 100%.
// For the text (Tori Amos: "General Joy") I used Georgia at 6px, type Crisp and space at 200.
// Finally, for the border, I used teh_indy brush:
// And I was done. :D
That's all for today's lesson! Hope it was hopeful. :)