bright and shiny textures tutorial
Make a shiny texture like this in PSP8 
(could translate in other programs)
Making bright and shiny tutorials isn't that hard!
All I do is take a regular image (somewhat colorful) and gaussian blur it with a radius of 15.
Before:
and
After:
I crop it into 100x100
I duplicate and set it to screen at a 42% opacity.
Now I just add brushes that are free to use in freebies (remember - if you want to make textures to give out as freebies make sure whatever brushes you use are okay to use in freebies and not just for personal use >_<)
Before I add the brushes I make sure my brush settings are like this:
I add some border and splater brushes and an "x" brush.
And that's basicially it.
Now I just cropped an image of hilary into the icon and set it to multiply and I got this:
(could translate in other programs)Making bright and shiny tutorials isn't that hard!
All I do is take a regular image (somewhat colorful) and gaussian blur it with a radius of 15.
Before:
and
After:
I crop it into 100x100
I duplicate and set it to screen at a 42% opacity.
Now I just add brushes that are free to use in freebies (remember - if you want to make textures to give out as freebies make sure whatever brushes you use are okay to use in freebies and not just for personal use >_<)
Before I add the brushes I make sure my brush settings are like this:
I add some border and splater brushes and an "x" brush.
And that's basicially it.
Now I just cropped an image of hilary into the icon and set it to multiply and I got this: