Alright, this is my first icon tutorial. Bear with me. I thought I'd give back to everyone...you've taught me so much. ^_^
We're going to make
from this.
Made in Photoshop 7.
1. I took this image from Veritaserum. I put it in Photoshop. Since it's way too big for what I'm doing, I went to Image>>Image Size and changed the width to 1000 and the height to 418. Much better.
2. Using the select tool (style set to fixed size, 100x100) I selected an icon-sized portion of her face. I didn't want to select her whole face; just a feature. I selected one of her eyes and made sure the eye was in a corner so I'll have room for what I'm going to do.
3. Copy (Ctrl-C) the 100x100 selection and paste it in a new window. DON'T close the original picture's window - you'll need it later. (And don't crop the selection within the window, either.)
4. Duplicate the first layer (of the 100x100 new window). Set the new layer to 100% screen. Duplicate the first layer again and set the newest layer to 100% overlay.
5. Rotate back to the other window (shift-tab). Since the image is too big for this selection, go to Image>>Image size and set the width to 600, height 251. With your rectangular marquee tool - style set to fixed size: 30px width, 20 px height - select a feature on Hermione's face (not the eye in the icon!) and copy it. I selected her other eye.
6. Rotate back to the icon window. Paste the 30x20 featurette of Hermione's face on the icon. Move it to the upper right corner.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6, but select a different feature on Hermione's face each time - I selected her mouth, her ear, her nose, and the curls in her hair. Don't put 'em all in the upper right corner, though! Put each featurette directly under the other. 5 little featurettes *should* run the height of your icon. If they don't... you've done something wrong... It should look like this now:
8. Link each of the featurette layers.
9. Select one of the featurette layers in your layer palette (the featurette layers should be linked). Using the move tool (V) move the featurettes over away from the right edge three pixels.
10. Select the layer that has the bottom-most featurette in your icon. Using your rectangular marquee tool (change the style to normal) select an area that spans over the featurette (widthwise) and above the bottom edge by two pixels.
11. Hit the delete key. It should delete the bottom two pixels of the lowest featurette.
12. Select the layer that has the top-most featurette in your icon. Using your rectangular marquee tool, select an area that spans over the featurette and below the top edge by two pixels.
13. Hit the delete key. It should delete the top two pixels of the highest featurette.
14. Double click a featurette layer in your layers palette. It should bring up the layer style window. Check stroke and outer glow. Click on stroke to edit its style. It should be Normal 100%, 1px white, outside. Click on outer glow to edit its style. It should be Screen 75% (noise 0%), white, technique: softer, spread: 0%, size: 5px. (Everything else should be left the way it is). Click OK.
15. Set the layer to Luminosity 90%.
16. Right-click the layer you've added style to in your layers palette. Click 'Copy Layer Style'. Right click that layer again and click 'Paste Layer Style to Linked'. (Your featurettes should be linked.) It makes it look like this:
17. Go back to layer three - your last Hermione duplicate - and make a new layer (shift-ctrl-n). Using a swirly effect brush or shape - I used the first brush in 'Swirled Deco Brush Set' by
hisatomi (found here). (It's for PSP, but I took the image pack and defined brushes from 'em.) If you don't want one of those, there are a few swirly custom shapes (Just rasterize the layer when you're done with the shape).
Using white, place your swirl right underneath the featurettes. It should give 'em a stripey look.
Skip ahead to step 20 if you don't want to add text.
18. Using 22pt white Arriere Garde as my font, I wrote 'Hermione' in the bottom right corner of my icon.
19. Double click the font layer. 'Layer Style' should come up. Check drop shadow (leave as is) and outer glow (set it to white).
20. Now the fun stuff. If you might add something more somewhere in your layers, select all (ctrl-a), copy merged (shift-ctrl-c), and paste into a new window. If you're totally done with the layers, merge the layers (shift-ctrl-e).
Go to Image >> Adjustments >> Variations. Play around with the midtones... I clicked more red, more yellow, darker, more blue, lighter.
You're done! If you want to add a border, you can. I hope you liked this tutorial (it wasn't too hard, was it?). if you have any questions, yell at me.
Some icons I did with similar techniques...:
Always credit if you used this tutorial. And I like comments. =D
We're going to make
from this.
Made in Photoshop 7.
1. I took this image from Veritaserum. I put it in Photoshop. Since it's way too big for what I'm doing, I went to Image>>Image Size and changed the width to 1000 and the height to 418. Much better.
2. Using the select tool (style set to fixed size, 100x100) I selected an icon-sized portion of her face. I didn't want to select her whole face; just a feature. I selected one of her eyes and made sure the eye was in a corner so I'll have room for what I'm going to do.
3. Copy (Ctrl-C) the 100x100 selection and paste it in a new window. DON'T close the original picture's window - you'll need it later. (And don't crop the selection within the window, either.)
4. Duplicate the first layer (of the 100x100 new window). Set the new layer to 100% screen. Duplicate the first layer again and set the newest layer to 100% overlay.
5. Rotate back to the other window (shift-tab). Since the image is too big for this selection, go to Image>>Image size and set the width to 600, height 251. With your rectangular marquee tool - style set to fixed size: 30px width, 20 px height - select a feature on Hermione's face (not the eye in the icon!) and copy it. I selected her other eye.
6. Rotate back to the icon window. Paste the 30x20 featurette of Hermione's face on the icon. Move it to the upper right corner.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6, but select a different feature on Hermione's face each time - I selected her mouth, her ear, her nose, and the curls in her hair. Don't put 'em all in the upper right corner, though! Put each featurette directly under the other. 5 little featurettes *should* run the height of your icon. If they don't... you've done something wrong... It should look like this now:
8. Link each of the featurette layers.
9. Select one of the featurette layers in your layer palette (the featurette layers should be linked). Using the move tool (V) move the featurettes over away from the right edge three pixels.
10. Select the layer that has the bottom-most featurette in your icon. Using your rectangular marquee tool (change the style to normal) select an area that spans over the featurette (widthwise) and above the bottom edge by two pixels.
11. Hit the delete key. It should delete the bottom two pixels of the lowest featurette.
12. Select the layer that has the top-most featurette in your icon. Using your rectangular marquee tool, select an area that spans over the featurette and below the top edge by two pixels.
13. Hit the delete key. It should delete the top two pixels of the highest featurette.
14. Double click a featurette layer in your layers palette. It should bring up the layer style window. Check stroke and outer glow. Click on stroke to edit its style. It should be Normal 100%, 1px white, outside. Click on outer glow to edit its style. It should be Screen 75% (noise 0%), white, technique: softer, spread: 0%, size: 5px. (Everything else should be left the way it is). Click OK.
15. Set the layer to Luminosity 90%.
16. Right-click the layer you've added style to in your layers palette. Click 'Copy Layer Style'. Right click that layer again and click 'Paste Layer Style to Linked'. (Your featurettes should be linked.) It makes it look like this:
17. Go back to layer three - your last Hermione duplicate - and make a new layer (shift-ctrl-n). Using a swirly effect brush or shape - I used the first brush in 'Swirled Deco Brush Set' by
hisatomi (found here). (It's for PSP, but I took the image pack and defined brushes from 'em.) If you don't want one of those, there are a few swirly custom shapes (Just rasterize the layer when you're done with the shape).Using white, place your swirl right underneath the featurettes. It should give 'em a stripey look.
Skip ahead to step 20 if you don't want to add text.
18. Using 22pt white Arriere Garde as my font, I wrote 'Hermione' in the bottom right corner of my icon.
19. Double click the font layer. 'Layer Style' should come up. Check drop shadow (leave as is) and outer glow (set it to white).
20. Now the fun stuff. If you might add something more somewhere in your layers, select all (ctrl-a), copy merged (shift-ctrl-c), and paste into a new window. If you're totally done with the layers, merge the layers (shift-ctrl-e).
Go to Image >> Adjustments >> Variations. Play around with the midtones... I clicked more red, more yellow, darker, more blue, lighter.
You're done! If you want to add a border, you can. I hope you liked this tutorial (it wasn't too hard, was it?). if you have any questions, yell at me.
Some icons I did with similar techniques...:
Always credit if you used this tutorial. And I like comments. =D