Hi this is my first tutorial here and at icon_tuts. It's a Tyra Banks icon, very simple but still pretty.



This tutorial is made with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 but you can try with something else.

1. I took this pic of Tyra and cropped it down to make the icon.
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2. Next I use the rectangular marquee tool and go around her eyes. Right click and click Layer via Copy.
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3. Now click on the arrow on the toolbar in the top right corner and move the place where you copied her eye to a corner.
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4. Then click on layer 2.
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Make sure your cursor is hovered over layer 2. Hold down the CTRL button and click 'A' on your keyboard.

5. We're going to be adding a border to it. After that click on edit>stroke. For my settings I had:
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6. Press ok. Then deselect by pressing CTRL+d.
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7. Then I made a new layer. Layer>new>layer.

8. Now paste this brush over your new layer. This brush is from anesthezea
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Set your blend mode to screen 80%.

9. Then I added some text on top. YOu can add whatever text you like and got this:
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Pretty simple but still pretty. :)


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