.Tutorial PSP 8.
Hi, this is my first tutorial. I hope nobody else has done one like this lol. Okay, it's a full icon tut using psp 8, though it's so easy, you can definitely use PS as well. Here's the icon we are going to be making:
1. First take the picture, I am using a picture of the very lovely Emilie de Ravin, and crop it to about 75x72. Then, create a new layer, and fill it with dark blue (we're talking old school here!) and set to exclusion, 100%. Then duplicate the whole thing, and set the top layer to soft light. Your icon should look like this so far:
2. Make a new image, 100x100 and with a white background. Add your image base from before. I usually put this layer in the right handside corner, but you don't have to. Carefully, with a round eraser on 35% opacity and size 16%, erase round the two inside edges of the top layer. You may need to do this more than once. It'll look like this:
3. Create a new layer, and set it on screen (opacity anything between 90 and 70 %). Using the selection tool, select random rectangles on the image, and fill in different colors. I won't tell you which colors, because it depends which picture you are using, or just what you prefer, but I would stick to dark colors because they come out light on screen and if you use light colors to start with you won't be able to see the picture as well. I usually begin with half the picture in a base color, and then add colors in different places over the top. Add in a few white lines too here and there.
4. Then all you have to do image wise, is select a little section of the original picture you had (about 35x35) and crop it. Add a light border (I picked lilac) and then copy it over to your icon. Place it in the opposite corner to your colored picture, and overlap it a little into the colored picture. It'll look something like this:
5. Now just add text. I usually make a new layer, pick a pretty font and make it really small (5 or 6), but this time I used a brush. I can't remember who made it, so I won't post it, but it's just some little handwritten like sentence. I picked the same color as the border, and then once I'd added the text, erased any parts overlapping the little picture.
You're done!
Hopefully this was easy enough to understand. Please comment, and feel free to ask me if you have any questions or problems :)
Hi, this is my first tutorial. I hope nobody else has done one like this lol. Okay, it's a full icon tut using psp 8, though it's so easy, you can definitely use PS as well. Here's the icon we are going to be making:
1. First take the picture, I am using a picture of the very lovely Emilie de Ravin, and crop it to about 75x72. Then, create a new layer, and fill it with dark blue (we're talking old school here!) and set to exclusion, 100%. Then duplicate the whole thing, and set the top layer to soft light. Your icon should look like this so far:
2. Make a new image, 100x100 and with a white background. Add your image base from before. I usually put this layer in the right handside corner, but you don't have to. Carefully, with a round eraser on 35% opacity and size 16%, erase round the two inside edges of the top layer. You may need to do this more than once. It'll look like this:
3. Create a new layer, and set it on screen (opacity anything between 90 and 70 %). Using the selection tool, select random rectangles on the image, and fill in different colors. I won't tell you which colors, because it depends which picture you are using, or just what you prefer, but I would stick to dark colors because they come out light on screen and if you use light colors to start with you won't be able to see the picture as well. I usually begin with half the picture in a base color, and then add colors in different places over the top. Add in a few white lines too here and there.
4. Then all you have to do image wise, is select a little section of the original picture you had (about 35x35) and crop it. Add a light border (I picked lilac) and then copy it over to your icon. Place it in the opposite corner to your colored picture, and overlap it a little into the colored picture. It'll look something like this:
5. Now just add text. I usually make a new layer, pick a pretty font and make it really small (5 or 6), but this time I used a brush. I can't remember who made it, so I won't post it, but it's just some little handwritten like sentence. I picked the same color as the border, and then once I'd added the text, erased any parts overlapping the little picture.
You're done!
Hopefully this was easy enough to understand. Please comment, and feel free to ask me if you have any questions or problems :)