Common tricks for PS6 = quickie icon.
(There was an introduction to this tutorial. Must've been left on the cutting room floor or something.)
Prerequisites: Photoshop 6, the DVD for Go
Ichi: Get a screenshot. Took mine straight off the Go DVD.
Ni: Resize to 100x100. Select it all and copy it for the next step. (Seeing as it's a touch dark and all.)
San: Let's brighten this up, yes? New layer, paste, change blending mode to Screen. Finally, You Can See Taye Diggs.
Yon: Do your text (on a new layer, quite obviously... but I think Photoshop does that automatically anyways). This font's the ever-popular Arial Black, 10pt, smooth anti-aliasing (as I'm at work, I can't check on what the default is... one of the choices is "Crisp"). Color? Why, that's 78/125/44 (#4E7D36, I believe, if you just HAVE to have it in hex). Go into "Blending Options" (I'm fairly certain that's the exact name... I'm at work right now) and slap a drop shadow on there, just to help define the text a touch. I just fiddled with the settings until I saw something that I liked, which is generally good form, actually. Default settings, just change the following. (I'm not sure if some of these need changing, as I'm lazy and not doing this ALL. OVER. AGAIN.):
Opacity: 75%
Distance: 2px
Spread: 0%
Size: 1px
Contour: The one DIRECTLY UNDER the default. Should look like a rapidly-rising curve which smoothly flattens out. (Not sure if it's in that position for everyone.)
Go: Well, you'll need a backdrop for the text, no? Kind of hard to make it out, Foreground color's 39/58/151 (hex sez #273A97). New layer, 'neath the text one. Select a rectangle roughly the size of the text. Fill with the foreground color. Layer blending is HARD LIGHT. (I originally did Soft Light and it would have been badass, if you could read "THANK".)
Roku: Take up Japanese again, of course. Either that or post it and demand credit from those who want to use this icon? Hell, maybe learn a little something more about Photoshop beyond "copying a layer and putting it on screen mode brightens it up".
EDIT: Yeeeeesh. I know that sometimes tone doesn't come across on the Intarweb, but that doesn't mean you can PROJECT it either. :)
I was hoping for constructive criticism, not "STOP TALKING DOWN TO US!" Because I wasn't, you know.
If you want more graphical explanations... you'll just have to wait. We don't have Photoshop here. :P
Prerequisites: Photoshop 6, the DVD for Go
Ichi: Get a screenshot. Took mine straight off the Go DVD.
Ni: Resize to 100x100. Select it all and copy it for the next step. (Seeing as it's a touch dark and all.)
San: Let's brighten this up, yes? New layer, paste, change blending mode to Screen. Finally, You Can See Taye Diggs.
Yon: Do your text (on a new layer, quite obviously... but I think Photoshop does that automatically anyways). This font's the ever-popular Arial Black, 10pt, smooth anti-aliasing (as I'm at work, I can't check on what the default is... one of the choices is "Crisp"). Color? Why, that's 78/125/44 (#4E7D36, I believe, if you just HAVE to have it in hex). Go into "Blending Options" (I'm fairly certain that's the exact name... I'm at work right now) and slap a drop shadow on there, just to help define the text a touch. I just fiddled with the settings until I saw something that I liked, which is generally good form, actually. Default settings, just change the following. (I'm not sure if some of these need changing, as I'm lazy and not doing this ALL. OVER. AGAIN.):
Opacity: 75%
Distance: 2px
Spread: 0%
Size: 1px
Contour: The one DIRECTLY UNDER the default. Should look like a rapidly-rising curve which smoothly flattens out. (Not sure if it's in that position for everyone.)
Go: Well, you'll need a backdrop for the text, no? Kind of hard to make it out, Foreground color's 39/58/151 (hex sez #273A97). New layer, 'neath the text one. Select a rectangle roughly the size of the text. Fill with the foreground color. Layer blending is HARD LIGHT. (I originally did Soft Light and it would have been badass, if you could read "THANK".)
Roku: Take up Japanese again, of course. Either that or post it and demand credit from those who want to use this icon? Hell, maybe learn a little something more about Photoshop beyond "copying a layer and putting it on screen mode brightens it up".
EDIT: Yeeeeesh. I know that sometimes tone doesn't come across on the Intarweb, but that doesn't mean you can PROJECT it either. :)
I was hoping for constructive criticism, not "STOP TALKING DOWN TO US!" Because I wasn't, you know.
If you want more graphical explanations... you'll just have to wait. We don't have Photoshop here. :P