tutorial: 10 Things I Hate About You icon!
I made this icon a few days ago, and I liked the way it turned out. Hopefully, someone will want to try this. [g]
Go from this:
To this:
I'm starting with the following cap, made by
peacefully, cropped and resized.
Then I use auto contrast (under image>adjustments), but I wasn't satisfied with the color on that, so I went to brightness/contrast (also under image>adjustments) and changed the settings to something I liked (in this case, 15 for brightness and 30 for contrast):
Next, I sharpened the image, duplicated the layer, and set it to screen. After that, I went back to image>adjustments, and clicked on desaturate. I changed the layer's opacity to 50%, and sharpened it once more, for good measure.
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Once that was done, I added another layer, filled it with a dark blue color (in this case, 1F1696), and changed the blending options to exclusion, then changed the opacity to 35%.
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After this, I went back to the original image, duplicated it, and dragged it on top of everything else I'd done.I set the blending options to screen. Once that was done, I went back to image>adjustments>brightness/contrast and changed the brightness to -10 and contrast to 35.
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Then I created another layer, and used a gradient fromnoctuidae's set of cream-colored gradients:
And then, I set the blending options to soft light.
Next, I added this texture made byeldritchlove:
Blending options: set on soft light at 25%.
Then I added the text (font: Bitch Cakes, size: 15, anti-alias: sharp, color: 000000), and moved it to the right corner.
And that is the final result. Hope I did an okay job at explaining this!
Go from this:
To this:
I'm starting with the following cap, made by
peacefully, cropped and resized.Then I use auto contrast (under image>adjustments), but I wasn't satisfied with the color on that, so I went to brightness/contrast (also under image>adjustments) and changed the settings to something I liked (in this case, 15 for brightness and 30 for contrast):
Next, I sharpened the image, duplicated the layer, and set it to screen. After that, I went back to image>adjustments, and clicked on desaturate. I changed the layer's opacity to 50%, and sharpened it once more, for good measure.
> Once that was done, I added another layer, filled it with a dark blue color (in this case, 1F1696), and changed the blending options to exclusion, then changed the opacity to 35%.
> After this, I went back to the original image, duplicated it, and dragged it on top of everything else I'd done.I set the blending options to screen. Once that was done, I went back to image>adjustments>brightness/contrast and changed the brightness to -10 and contrast to 35.
> Then I created another layer, and used a gradient from
noctuidae's set of cream-colored gradients:And then, I set the blending options to soft light.
Next, I added this texture made by
eldritchlove:Blending options: set on soft light at 25%.
Then I added the text (font: Bitch Cakes, size: 15, anti-alias: sharp, color: 000000), and moved it to the right corner.
And that is the final result. Hope I did an okay job at explaining this!