Veronica Mars icon tutorial

Hey guys, I've been using this community for a while to get tips for icons and I thought I'd post 2 tutorials I just put in my journal. Both were done in Photoshop.


tutorial #1

i started with this cap.



crop it and resize it to 100x100.



duplicate the bottom layer twice, setting both to "screen" in blending options.



add this gradient. it's a basic transparent/grey gradient in photoshop.



leave the blend mode to "normal" at 100%



add a new layer, blending mode set to "exclusion" at 20% with the color #05459D.



add some text with the font "Chaparral Pro" in the color #A0A0A0 set to "screen" at 100%. i added a 2px line under the main text and smaller text in 2px below that.



flatten and save and you're done.



tutorial #2

start with this cap.



crop is and resize it to 100x100.



duplicate the bottom layer twice and set them both to "screen" in the blending modes.



place this light texture as a new layer. (from wickedripeplum)



set the blend mode to "screen" at 70%



add text in white with "Century Gothic" at 6px. set the blending mode of the text to "soft light".



create a new layer and place the heart brush (from teh_indy) in white over text, with blending mode set to "soft light".



save and you're done.

Screencaps were done by me, feel free to use them.