tutorial

Made in psp8

The icon was made following a lot of mentallystoned's tutorial, but just tweaked a bit and for psp. (I hope she doesn't mind:S)

The starting image


Chose what part you want on the icon. Crop it down to that.


You can either resize it to 100x100px but you lose a lot of the quality that way so i prefer to ...File/new/width 100 height 100/ selections/select all. Then go to your cropped image ... edit/copy. Now back to your selected new blank image ... edit/paste into selection.

example of the resize option->
example of copy/paste into selected area ->

see the icon is of a higher quality the second way!:P

Now we have our base.

1.) Adjust/Brightness and contrast/Automatic contrast enhancement ... bias (select darker) strength (select normal) appearance (bold).
2.) Adjust/Brightness and contrast/clarify ... strength of effect (select 5)
3.) Adjust/Brightness and contrast/levels ... channel (RGB) Input levels (10 / 0.89 / 248) Output levels ( 0 / 255). Click ok.
4.) sharpen
5.) Duplicate base. Turn the duplicate black & white. I chose the channel mixer method.



6.) set this layer to 'screen' at 50% opacity.
7.) new layer. Flood fill with #D1B7AB . Set this to 'multiply' at 40% opacity.
8.) new layer. Apply this texture from mentallystoned . Set it at 'soft light 100% opacity.

So far

9.) new layer. Another of mentallystoned's textures. Set it to 'screen' and 100% opacity.
10.) New layer. Apply this gradient. . It comes with psp8 and is called 'black-white'. Set it to 'Lighten' and 100% opacity.

so far


11.) New layer. Another psp8 gradient. It's called 'Raindrop', i positioned it at angle 128. It's basically transparent expect for the bottom right corner which is faded white. This is a example of it on a yellow bg . Set it to 'normal' with 74% opacity.

12.) New vector layer. Add your text. I chose lyrics from her song 'Breathe on me' . The 'breathe' is font is Trebuchet MS in size 15 , in bold and lowercase. Using the select tool i 'cut' the bottom of the letters. The the small text is Times new roman size 3 bold in caps and a space between each letter. I kept the font at 'normal' but lowered the opacity so it looked faint.

13.) Now using the select tool and the 'raindrop' gradient again i added a border around the icon. And lowered the opacity to 66% for the faint look.

example of border on yellow bg

My pallette at the end with the both text pieces merged and the border merged.


and the end result (saved in PNG format)