First tutorial, made on a whim with PSP 8
'ello kiddies!
Go from THIS to
I started out with this picture:
Next I prepped the base – cropped, sharpened, etc. What you do in this step depends mostly on the photo you’re using – some need sharpened, some don’t, etc. For this icon, I took the soften brush and went over the background a few times. Here’s my finished base:
The fun part!
I added the following:
1.
Exclusion, 100%
2.
Multiply, 100%
3. Duplicate the base layer and drag it to the top. Lighten, 60%
Then I added a few gradients, all by me:
4.
Lighten, 62%
5.
Lighten, 30%
6.
Soft Light, 48%
Time for some textures. These textures were NOT by me, I don’t know who made them – if you know or they’re yours, please comment so I can credit them!
7.
Soft Light, 26%
8.
Soft Light, 50%
But I found that the swirly things in the second texture were blocking Denny’s pretty, pretty face (and we don’t want that), so I erased the parts covering his face and neck.
Finally, I decided it was too muted, so:
9. I duplicated the base layer once again and dragged it to the top. Soft Light, 100%.
Now, time for brushes and text.
10. I made a new raster layer, and used this brush:
stamped in a pale neutral color (something similar to the color used in the multiply layer way back in step 2. Remember step 2? Good times, good times.)
I have no idea who made this brush – again, if it’s yours or you know who did, please comment. I don’t know where you can download it, but you can use the above image to make a brush tip from the image (I won’t go into how to do this, surely there’s a tutorial on it somewhere.)
11. I duplicated the brush layer and set both layers to soft light, 100%.
12. Now, text. I used the font ‘Dali’ (which you can download from dafont.com), 10pt, in the same neutral color used for the stamp. My text says ‘imagine’, but the text on this icon is more of a decoration than the point of the icon. I didn’t worry about making it readable, I worried about making it pretty – and ‘imagine’ happened to be the word that looked the prettiest in that font in that space.
13. I duplicated my text layer twice. The bottom two I set to soft light, 100%. The top I set to Overlay, 40%
And voila!
One very pretty and pensive looking Denis.
See? Wasn't that easy and enjoyable?
Go from THIS to
I started out with this picture:
Next I prepped the base – cropped, sharpened, etc. What you do in this step depends mostly on the photo you’re using – some need sharpened, some don’t, etc. For this icon, I took the soften brush and went over the background a few times. Here’s my finished base:
The fun part!
I added the following:
1.
Exclusion, 100%2.
Multiply, 100%3. Duplicate the base layer and drag it to the top. Lighten, 60%
Then I added a few gradients, all by me:
4.
Lighten, 62%5.
Lighten, 30%6.
Soft Light, 48%Time for some textures. These textures were NOT by me, I don’t know who made them – if you know or they’re yours, please comment so I can credit them!
7.
Soft Light, 26%8.
Soft Light, 50%But I found that the swirly things in the second texture were blocking Denny’s pretty, pretty face (and we don’t want that), so I erased the parts covering his face and neck.
Finally, I decided it was too muted, so:
9. I duplicated the base layer once again and dragged it to the top. Soft Light, 100%.
Now, time for brushes and text.
10. I made a new raster layer, and used this brush:
stamped in a pale neutral color (something similar to the color used in the multiply layer way back in step 2. Remember step 2? Good times, good times.)
I have no idea who made this brush – again, if it’s yours or you know who did, please comment. I don’t know where you can download it, but you can use the above image to make a brush tip from the image (I won’t go into how to do this, surely there’s a tutorial on it somewhere.)
11. I duplicated the brush layer and set both layers to soft light, 100%.
12. Now, text. I used the font ‘Dali’ (which you can download from dafont.com), 10pt, in the same neutral color used for the stamp. My text says ‘imagine’, but the text on this icon is more of a decoration than the point of the icon. I didn’t worry about making it readable, I worried about making it pretty – and ‘imagine’ happened to be the word that looked the prettiest in that font in that space.
13. I duplicated my text layer twice. The bottom two I set to soft light, 100%. The top I set to Overlay, 40%
And voila!
One very pretty and pensive looking Denis.
See? Wasn't that easy and enjoyable?