Hyde Tutorial

Hello everyone! Hope you're all doing okay. I just thought I'd share my very first tutorial with you, because I think it came out kinda cool! ^_^ It's for PSP 8, but I think it's translatable...

I'll be going from this screenshot, to this:



First, I started with THIS Picture, resized to 98x98 (because I plan to have a border) and cropped it. I then sharpened it twice, before smoothing out his skin using the soften tool. This is what I now have:



Next, I duplicated it once, and set my new layer to Screen, at 100% opacity.



Thirdly, I added this gradient: (made be meee! ^^) and set it on Screen, at 100%



Once again, I duplicated the background, and dragged it to the top. I set this layer on Hard Light, at 100%.



I then added this light texture: (made by and credited to myrasis) and set it to Screen at 100%.



I decided to duplicate the light texture layer, to make the sparkly bits stand out a bit more! ^_^



Finally, I merged them all together, and added a one pix border in black.



Ta daa! And we're done!

Hope that helped some people! I'd love to see what you guys do with it if you decide that it's helpful, so let me see! ^^

Bye for now!