quack wrote in icon_tutorial little heavy on the gradients

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tutorial!

To make this icon: in PS7


Start with this nice picture of Mr. Folds cropped & resized it, sharpened and fade at 50%.

I used this gradient from this set by hermintage and set it to screen


Now a new layer, I filled it with a random dark blue (003378) and set it to exclusion, putting it under the screen layer, then played around with the opacities.

I then duplicated the base and set it to soft light.

I took this gradient (by crumblingwalls) and put in between the two soft lighted ones, and set it to lighten


I used this brush from this set by dactyliotheca then added the text 'folds' in the font Violation, the color black, size 14


Final Layer placement
screen: 51
Exclusion: 27
folds :100 soft light
base copy: soft light 37
lighten: 100
border: 100
base: 100