reall_goodchild (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} reall_goodchild) wrote,@ 2006-01-29 14:53:00 |
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| Current mood: | creative |
| Current music: | BoA ---> Everlasting |
Tutorial 3
A simple tutorial on how to make this icon:
Step 1: Preparing Your Base I'd just discovered the Everlasting music video by BoA and fell in love with all the images so I screen capped and set out to make icons. So to start I took one of the images from the the video:  and cropped it down to 100x100, so it looked like this:  Now I found that that was way too blurry for my liking, so I used the sharpen tool twice. Then, I wasn't sure whether it was light enough or not, so I duplicated it and set it to Screen. Then it was too light so I thought I'd see what it would look like with a bit more contrast, so I instead set the layer to Soft Light(100%), where it looked good, so I kept it like this:  I liked how it looked, so I decided that it would be fine for my base. I merged the layers and moved on. Step 2: Blue Exclusion Layer To start, I made a new raster layer. I filled it in with a dark blue (#003371) and set the layer to Exclusion(25%-35%).  >>  Step 3: Green Burn Layer Next I made another new raster layer and filled it with a pale green (#A3C9A1). I set this layer to Burn(33%).  >>  Step 3: Texture I like to try and use at least one texture in all my icons. For this one, I decided to use a texture from the Inner City base set by yumei_k found HERE. There are several textures from the pack that would work. Ones containing blues, beiges and blacks work best for this tutorial. For this specific icon though, I chose this texture: I pasted it onto it's own layer and set it to Soft Light(100%). Now your icon should look like this:  Step 4: Extras From here on out, it's all up to you as to what you put on the icon. For this icon, I chose to add text and a border. The text is Sell Your Soul set to sie 7 (Alone) or size 1 for the tiny text. The border was simple. I went to Selections > Select All, then went back and went Selections > Modify > Contract and when the pop up box came up, I set it to 3 pixels. Then I went Selections > Invert and painted it in white. Then I went a repeated the same steps again, only this time I only contracted by 1 pixel. I filled it in with a dark green that was found on the icon using the eyedropper tool (#34825C). So all you have to do is add what you want and you're finished! Huzzah! Other Icons Made Using a Similar Method:     |
If you have any questions or you found this confusing, leave a comment and I'll try to clear it all up for you. ^^
