My first tutorial!
I've been watching this community a lot, so I decided to make my own tutorial!
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, if you are interested.
Icon Tutorial using PSP 7, hope it translates well!
Alrighty, this is my first tutorial, and first self-created icon, so don’t kill me.
Start with any image of your choice! I’m addicted to Shirley Manson of Garbage right now, so I’ll use her.
2. Take a color you like from the picture. I chose #73082C out of the very corner of the picture because it’s a nice color but it isn’t a main one. Then, fill it in a blank canvas and under colors choose negative image. That will be your first layer! Take that color and fill it in the layer, and set the layer to burn, 100%. So you should have done this:
3. Then, take another color out of the picture, a more predominant one. I took from a her shirt, #FFFFC9, and negative imaged it to #000036. Fill it in a new layer and set that layer to dodge 100%. So you should get:
4. Now, you should make a grid. Make a 5 x 5 square with a transparent background, and make a simple, even cross (like the red cross shape), and save it in the pattern folder of your PSP program file. Then, fill it in a new layer, and set the layer to Soft Light 65%. So you should get:
5. This is even easier: Make a new layer, and change the direction of the fill pattern from 0 to 120. This makes a really great frame around the face. Then fill it and set it to Soft Light 35%:
6. Then, I took a cover from a Garbage album, cut out the G and Garbage, greyscaled it, and resized it and put it in the bottom right corner of a 100x 100 square of the color of the cover’s background color after greyscale (#242424, and hope that made sense). Then I set it to Screen 100% on a new layer, basically having the same effect as a light texture:
7. Finally, on the last layer, I filled it with #242424, used a size 96 eraser to erase the center, and I was left with a border. Tada! The final product:
Whaddya guys think? Sorry I got a little lazy, (It's nearly 3 AM), on the visual instructions towards the end...I know I'm a visual person =D.
Let me see your creations! Post em!
We'll be going from
to , if you are interested.Icon Tutorial using PSP 7, hope it translates well!
Alrighty, this is my first tutorial, and first self-created icon, so don’t kill me.
Start with any image of your choice! I’m addicted to Shirley Manson of Garbage right now, so I’ll use her.
2. Take a color you like from the picture. I chose #73082C out of the very corner of the picture because it’s a nice color but it isn’t a main one. Then, fill it in a blank canvas and under colors choose negative image. That will be your first layer! Take that color and fill it in the layer, and set the layer to burn, 100%. So you should have done this:
3. Then, take another color out of the picture, a more predominant one. I took from a her shirt, #FFFFC9, and negative imaged it to #000036. Fill it in a new layer and set that layer to dodge 100%. So you should get:
4. Now, you should make a grid. Make a 5 x 5 square with a transparent background, and make a simple, even cross (like the red cross shape), and save it in the pattern folder of your PSP program file. Then, fill it in a new layer, and set the layer to Soft Light 65%. So you should get:
5. This is even easier: Make a new layer, and change the direction of the fill pattern from 0 to 120. This makes a really great frame around the face. Then fill it and set it to Soft Light 35%:
6. Then, I took a cover from a Garbage album, cut out the G and Garbage, greyscaled it, and resized it and put it in the bottom right corner of a 100x 100 square of the color of the cover’s background color after greyscale (#242424, and hope that made sense). Then I set it to Screen 100% on a new layer, basically having the same effect as a light texture:
7. Finally, on the last layer, I filled it with #242424, used a size 96 eraser to erase the center, and I was left with a border. Tada! The final product:
Whaddya guys think? Sorry I got a little lazy, (It's nearly 3 AM), on the visual instructions towards the end...I know I'm a visual person =D.
Let me see your creations! Post em!