ex_dgtall wrote in alienating 😦busy

tutorial: hugh jackman

A few people asked me how I made the fur seal icon (from the previous post) so I decided to make a tutorial.
No fur seals this time.
Let's take Hugh Jackman picture and have more fun :)
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resize and crop your image.
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duplicate the layer and set it to screen. then create new layer, fill it with black and set to overlay
(2 optional things: if your image is too dark it can be nesessary to duplicate screen layer a couple more times. and if it's not black and white just create a new layer, fill it with black abd set to color). so we have this:
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then I took this textrure by dearest, take a piece and set it to darken (erase some parts if nesessary).
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choose "custom shape" tool, choose heart and put it on top of all layers (color dark red). set this layer to multiply
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then add text if you want. and here it is:
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NOTE: in the fur seal icon you can see that the half of the icon is dark and half is light. to get this - simply cut a part of your base with polygonal lasso tool. works best if your image has light background)