Emma Watson
My first tutorial, though I've been watching this community for quite a while and gotten a lot of help from you guys. Please bear with me.
Using PSP8 though probably easily transferrable...
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Please don't copy the icon step by step and claim it as your own. You can be more creative than that. ^^
I started with this picture from mugglenet.com:
Cropped so that only the left side of Emma's face was showing and resized to 100x100 to get this:
I personally think it's a little blurry, so I put an unsharp mask on it (adjust-->sharpness-->unsharp mask), radius 1.75, strength 55, clipping 5, to get this:
Since it's quite the trend (and it looks nice), duplicate the base layer twice. Set the first duplicate to screen and the second to soft light.
Personally this looks a little off to me, so I lower the screen layer's opacity to 70%.
That's better. Now for the fun stuff.
I made a new layer, filled it with a gradient that came with PSP8, a purpley one, messed with it until it looked like this:
Set this layer to Multiply, 65%, to get this
Doesn't look just wonderful, but we'll fix that.
Next I took this light effect
(I forget who made it, sorry)
Flipped it, and set it to Overlay 75% on a new layer
Now it's a little bright, so I created a new layer and filled it with 0E1C74, Exclusion, 65% opacity
That's better. Now I add this texture by inxsomniax
I set this to screen at 45%, erasing everything that covers her face and hair; this is easier if you have the opacity at 0% first to erase, and then bring it up to however you like it.
Add this border on a new layer in black
Again, I forget who made it.
I thought it was a little bold, so I lower the opacity to 85%
I add this text brush by ladylenne on a new layer, in black, at 80% opacity
I think it could stand out a little more, so I select a color from the icon using the dropper tool (I used D8C2B3) and put a Drop Shadow on the text, 1x1 pixel, 90% opacity, to get the finished product:
And that's that. A little long-winded I know, but hopefully it's pretty clear and hopefully it'll help someone at least a little.
Feel free to snag the icon, but please credit i_do_not_strut.
Quick request: If anyone could point me to some tutorials for desktops/wallpapers, or any icon tutorial heavily featuring the color blue, I'd be very grateful.
Using PSP8 though probably easily transferrable...
From
to Please don't copy the icon step by step and claim it as your own. You can be more creative than that. ^^
I started with this picture from mugglenet.com:
Cropped so that only the left side of Emma's face was showing and resized to 100x100 to get this:
I personally think it's a little blurry, so I put an unsharp mask on it (adjust-->sharpness-->unsharp mask), radius 1.75, strength 55, clipping 5, to get this:
Since it's quite the trend (and it looks nice), duplicate the base layer twice. Set the first duplicate to screen and the second to soft light.
Personally this looks a little off to me, so I lower the screen layer's opacity to 70%.
That's better. Now for the fun stuff.
I made a new layer, filled it with a gradient that came with PSP8, a purpley one, messed with it until it looked like this:
Set this layer to Multiply, 65%, to get this
Doesn't look just wonderful, but we'll fix that.
Next I took this light effect
(I forget who made it, sorry)Flipped it, and set it to Overlay 75% on a new layer
Now it's a little bright, so I created a new layer and filled it with 0E1C74, Exclusion, 65% opacity
That's better. Now I add this texture by inxsomniax
I set this to screen at 45%, erasing everything that covers her face and hair; this is easier if you have the opacity at 0% first to erase, and then bring it up to however you like it.
Add this border on a new layer in black
Again, I forget who made it.
I thought it was a little bold, so I lower the opacity to 85%
I add this text brush by ladylenne on a new layer, in black, at 80% opacity
I think it could stand out a little more, so I select a color from the icon using the dropper tool (I used D8C2B3) and put a Drop Shadow on the text, 1x1 pixel, 90% opacity, to get the finished product:
And that's that. A little long-winded I know, but hopefully it's pretty clear and hopefully it'll help someone at least a little.
Feel free to snag the icon, but please credit i_do_not_strut.
Quick request: If anyone could point me to some tutorials for desktops/wallpapers, or any icon tutorial heavily featuring the color blue, I'd be very grateful.