[tutorial] sakura - soft look

[fuyou]

Another tutorial, because I'm bored. And I like to help people make nice looking icons. :D

We are going from this to this:

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[snm_queen]

The texture in step 09 is by immoral @ icontemplation. ^^ Pretty coloring~

[fuyou]

Thank you for letting me know, I'll edit the post. :D

[haebin]

[fuyou]

No problem. That came out really pretty! :D

[haebin]

[bluesoul92]

Ohh thank you well y make this Icon whith your tutorial whith a image of Nami of One Piece [img]http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/inuyugi/WildFire/OPIconSensual.jpg[/img]

[fuyou]

That looks awesome! :) And glad it helped you out!

[shiroki_tenshi]

Very pretty and good tutorial! :)

I'm learning how to make icons (unfortunately, I'm very PS7 illiterate...hahaha), so, um, yeah. How do you make the borders in the end? And how do you know what textures, gradients, brushes, etc. to use? Or do you just fool around with textures (and so on), which is what I do...^^

[fuyou]

Thank you. :)

Yup, it's all about experimentation. Which basically boils down to me opening various textures, thinking "oooh, I wonder what this will look over , with this setting..." and it all congealed together into sometimes good, and sometimes (MANY times) bad results. XD; But yeah, just experiment with different settings, different colours, that sort of thing.

And to get the border, I just used the select tool (top left of the tool pallete) to draw a rectangle three pixels wide and as wide/long as the icon, and filled it with white, repeating for all four sides. If that makes sense, let me know if it's confusing. PS7 can be a tricky little beast sometimes. ^_^;

But I hope that helps you!

[fuyou]

Ack, ignore the crappy editing there *sweatdrop*.

[shiroki_tenshi]

Hahaha, I see. I love experimenting because it's fun.

Ah, so that's how you make borders? Lol I never knew. Or you could use a border brush, right?

Awesome, thanks for the help. :D