Ella ([info]exotik) wrote in [info]uniquedismay,
2005-10-10 12:20:00
  • Mood: working
  • Music: Rilo Kiley - I Never
Here's my first icon tutorial. I'm going to make it public after all since pretty much all the tutorials I've seen are public too. This is made for Photoshop 7.0, but I'm pretty sure you can follow it with PSP. You should know the basics of icon making, meaning layers, modes etc. So here goes.

Learn how to make this icon:



I started off with this picture of Mischa and cropped it to 100x100.



Then I duplicated the layer by right clicking the little picture in the layer palette and choosing "Duplicate Layer..." I set the duplicate to screen.



I noticed that it made Mischa's face a bit too bright, so I used the eraser tool and removed the screen from her face.



Then make a new layer. Fill it with #C3AC9D and put the mode on Darken.



Then duplicate the Background layer, drag it over the Darken layer and change the mode on Soft Light. Then Desaturate the layer.



Then go and duplicate the Background layer once more and drag it above all the other layers. Set the mode to soft light. You can sharpen it if you feel that it needs it.



Then I used a brush by [info]trash_graphics. Colour #C6B38E and the blend mode normal. I moved it a little to the right so it didn't cover any of Mischa's face. I had to remove part of it by using the eraser tool, this depends of the picture you use, if it doesn't seem to bother you then you can leave it.



Then the icon still didn't look good. The brush didn't really seem to match the icon. So I made a new layer and filled it with #C7B48F and put the mode on Color and lowered the opacity to 25%.



It still looked a bit too over-saturated for me, so I made another new layer and filled it with #AD9786, set the mode to Color and lowered the opacity to 74%.



Now I was pretty satisfied with it. Then I added text: Courier New, bolded, size pt 6 and flipped it around by going Edit-->Free Transform.



And voilá, you're done!

Feedback and stuff is welcome and feel free to add this to your memories. If you want to show me what kind of icons you got made, that's cool too. I thought it was fun to make this, so you can expect more tutorials in the future!
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[info]didodiva

October 10 2005, 11:15:01 UTC 6 years ago

That came out really great! Thanks for the tutorial.

[info]wildchild199

October 10 2005, 11:42:38 UTC 6 years ago

Ohh added to memories. thanks!

[info]customer_mimi

October 10 2005, 11:52:47 UTC 6 years ago

saving to memories, the icon looks really good!

[info]my_givenchy

October 10 2005, 12:48:53 UTC 6 years ago

result looks great.
added to mems;)

[info]kaegome

October 10 2005, 14:42:15 UTC 6 years ago

Beautiful icon! Lovely tutorial!
*Memories this* Thanks for sharing :)

-Britney

[info]lasciviae

October 10 2005, 15:50:18 UTC 6 years ago

Hiya!
What a pretty tutorial. I had to comment because this is the very first time (that I know of at least) where someone has used my brushes as a tool for their tutorial. So you can imagine how excited I was to see this on my flist page, and very flattered that it is part of your overall design, but at the same time dissapointed to see you have credited multiple other people for the creation of this set, and none of them made them. I did, and they are from my community, [info]trash_graphics and can be found here. Would you please consider changing that in this tut to reflect the true creator of this set, as they took me over a month to create. (meh, I work ungodly hours).

Thanks a bunch, and again am happy to be part of this tut.

[info]exotik

October 10 2005, 16:05:38 UTC 6 years ago

Ahh I'm sorry, I wasn't sure at all who made it so I made a random guess. I'll credit you right away.

[info]inspirations

October 10 2005, 18:10:02 UTC 6 years ago

added to mems, thanks!♥

[info]poodleskirt

October 10 2005, 21:29:27 UTC 6 years ago

Great tutorial, thanks!

[info]taylorbeauti

October 11 2005, 01:44:04 UTC 6 years ago

i love this! I am so glad you did a tutorial, because you are so good at icon making! feel free to make more!

saving to my memories!
oh and I got this..Image hosted by TinyPic.com
with a tiny bit of adjusting..

[info]exotik

October 11 2005, 20:30:40 UTC 6 years ago

Looks good! Glad you found it helpful.

[info]engaged_paupo

October 11 2005, 20:00:40 UTC 6 years ago

Beautiful.
Adding to memories.

[info]jaysus

October 12 2005, 05:48:34 UTC 6 years ago

ohhh that's nice ^__^

[info]isenanao

October 12 2005, 09:53:50 UTC 6 years ago

It's beautiful. Adding to memories.

[info]soniced_up

October 12 2005, 18:55:04 UTC 6 years ago

I love this tutorial. Really pretty. I messed around with the blending and colors a tiny bit and this is what I got...

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

definitly saving to mems. Thanks a bunch for this.

[info]__luckylala__

October 30 2005, 15:49:44 UTC 6 years ago



ooh, will try this one!

[info]pixxielove

November 23 2005, 09:26:12 UTC 6 years ago

I get lost...

Then I used a brush by [info]trash_graphics. Colour #C6B38E and the blend mode normal. I moved it a little to the right so it didn't cover any of Mischa's face. I had to remove part of it by using the eraser tool, this depends of the picture you use, if it doesn't seem to bother you then you can leave it.

okay I made it into a brush and then I get lost on how to blend it to show on the picture. I can't get the brush to show up like your. So I need help. here is what I have so far.
Image hosted by Photobucket.com

[info]hot_radcliffe

February 23 2006, 16:48:40 UTC 6 years ago

Re: I get lost...

yeah, I'm having the same problem. :/

[info]pixxielove

February 23 2006, 22:12:12 UTC 6 years ago

Re: I get lost...

well I'm glad its not just me.

[info]domilorlando

January 13 2006, 15:31:39 UTC 6 years ago

Thanks for the tutorial :) Adding to memories.

[info]midnightdreamz

July 8 2006, 05:10:28 UTC 5 years ago

great tutorial!!

i really liked this tutorial.. it gives it a very classie look thanks alot!!

this is how mine came out...althoug it was kind hard to find the brush

[info]november86

September 10 2006, 21:23:30 UTC 5 years ago

lovely

[info]littlele5ive

July 8 2007, 06:54:45 UTC 4 years ago

Nice tutorial!!
Adding to me mems!! :D
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