Buffy/Spike icon tutorial
Ok, first ever tutorial coming up. I used PSP7, and it should be fairly easy to translate, though I can't be sure as I've never used anything else.
In this tutorial we will be going from this:
to this: 
in only 6 easy steps.
1) I started off with a screencap that I got from here and resized it to 100x100.
2) It was WAY too dark, so I duplicated the background and set the blend mode to screen at 100% opacity.
3) Created a new layer, applied a gradient by
crumblingwalls, and set the blend mode to multiply at 100%.
Here is the gradient:
And here is the icon with the gradient applied:
4) Created another new layer and applied a default gradient to it, and set the blend mode to overlay, once more at 100% opacity.
Here is the gradient:
And here is the icon with the gradient applied to it:
5) Added the text "I can be alone" in the font Ernest at 7 pt. and the text "with you" in the font Carpenter ICG at 16 pt. Both fonts are fill white and stroke null. The text looked too bright, so I set the blend mode to soft light, opacity 100%.
6) To finish the icon, I created one more new layer and picked a border brush in black, though I can't for the life of me remember where I got it from.
Here is the brush:
The blend mode is normal and the opacity is, what? You guessed it; 100%.
And, viola, here is the finished icon:
Again, that was my first tutorial, so if anything is unclear or you need any help with it, let me know, and I will be glad to assist you. Feedback is welcomed and greatly appreciated. :)
In this tutorial we will be going from this:
to this: in only 6 easy steps.1) I started off with a screencap that I got from here and resized it to 100x100.
2) It was WAY too dark, so I duplicated the background and set the blend mode to screen at 100% opacity.
3) Created a new layer, applied a gradient by
crumblingwalls, and set the blend mode to multiply at 100%.Here is the gradient:
And here is the icon with the gradient applied:
4) Created another new layer and applied a default gradient to it, and set the blend mode to overlay, once more at 100% opacity.
Here is the gradient:
And here is the icon with the gradient applied to it:
5) Added the text "I can be alone" in the font Ernest at 7 pt. and the text "with you" in the font Carpenter ICG at 16 pt. Both fonts are fill white and stroke null. The text looked too bright, so I set the blend mode to soft light, opacity 100%.
6) To finish the icon, I created one more new layer and picked a border brush in black, though I can't for the life of me remember where I got it from.
Here is the brush:
The blend mode is normal and the opacity is, what? You guessed it; 100%.
And, viola, here is the finished icon:
Again, that was my first tutorial, so if anything is unclear or you need any help with it, let me know, and I will be glad to assist you. Feedback is welcomed and greatly appreciated. :)