hey...first tutorial i'm posting, hope its helpful :) pretty easy Gilmore Girls icon i made in Photoshop 7.0
going from
to 
ok so we start with this base:
I went to Hue/Saturation and knocked the Saturation down to -75% and came back with this:
I then duplicated the base. I set the new layer to soft light, opacity 60%. Looks like this:
I then created a new layer and filled it with #021444:
Set this layer to exclusion, 100% opacity. The icon will look something like this:
I then added a light texture made by
miggy:
Set the texture to screen, opacity 75%. I found it looked better under the exclusion layer, but this could vary depending on the light texture. The icon should look something like this:
Last thing left was text. I didn't want to add anything really fancy, so i just wrote "disappointment" in ITC Garamond, size 8, and placed it next to Rory's head. The finished icon came out like so:
hope that helped, i'd love to see if you guys improved on it or did anything with it :)
going from
to ok so we start with this base:
I went to Hue/Saturation and knocked the Saturation down to -75% and came back with this:
I then duplicated the base. I set the new layer to soft light, opacity 60%. Looks like this:
I then created a new layer and filled it with #021444:
Set this layer to exclusion, 100% opacity. The icon will look something like this:
I then added a light texture made by
miggy:Set the texture to screen, opacity 75%. I found it looked better under the exclusion layer, but this could vary depending on the light texture. The icon should look something like this:
Last thing left was text. I didn't want to add anything really fancy, so i just wrote "disappointment" in ITC Garamond, size 8, and placed it next to Rory's head. The finished icon came out like so:
hope that helped, i'd love to see if you guys improved on it or did anything with it :)