Today we are going to learn to make this using PSP:
It has a realistic stage light effect, which I like
I'm using blue stage lights, however you might want to use a different color depending on the mood of the icon or your base.
First you need to set up your base. This isn't a base tutorial, however, so I'm going to leave that up to you. I believe it looks best with a dark background, a single subject off to the side and a box in the opposite corner. So I cropped/resized and messed with overlay duplicates until I got this:
Now if you are going to use blue, like I am, then this is the gradient for you:
If not create your own, and set it to multiply.
Now here's the complicated part. Select all and copy the merged image. Paste that into a new layer which is set at soft light. Then, go back to your gradient layer and change the blend mode to screen.
Now, your subject is looking a little smurfy, and that is not what we want. So go back to your base and duplicate it and bring it to the top. Set this layer to Luminance (Legacy).
Much less smurfy now, yet still a little too blue for me. We just want a subtle stage light effect, not a completely blue subject. So I take this pretty base by
dearest:
I set it to soft light. You might want to play with the colors of that base if you aren't using a blue effect. Now we have this:
Almost there now, don't fret. Duplicate your base again and bring it to the top. Set it to Overlay.
Perfect. Our effect is done now. It looks just like there's blue lights on him while he's onstage. Awesome. Now for the stuff that makes it an icon. I took a brush which I downloaded from100x100_brushes and edited it a bit and put some boxes in it. I put it on screen on the right side of the icon.
So now we have:
But something's missing, yes text, you got it. Since this is an Alkaline Trio icon *from a set I'm working on over atemo_icon* I used a line from their song Sadie: "My little nightmare" You can set this to screen if you use it:
Finally. We're finished.
Hopefully that helped you.
Let me see what you made with my effect!
It has a realistic stage light effect, which I like
I'm using blue stage lights, however you might want to use a different color depending on the mood of the icon or your base.
First you need to set up your base. This isn't a base tutorial, however, so I'm going to leave that up to you. I believe it looks best with a dark background, a single subject off to the side and a box in the opposite corner. So I cropped/resized and messed with overlay duplicates until I got this:
Now if you are going to use blue, like I am, then this is the gradient for you:
If not create your own, and set it to multiply.
Now here's the complicated part. Select all and copy the merged image. Paste that into a new layer which is set at soft light. Then, go back to your gradient layer and change the blend mode to screen.
Now, your subject is looking a little smurfy, and that is not what we want. So go back to your base and duplicate it and bring it to the top. Set this layer to Luminance (Legacy).
Much less smurfy now, yet still a little too blue for me. We just want a subtle stage light effect, not a completely blue subject. So I take this pretty base by
dearest:I set it to soft light. You might want to play with the colors of that base if you aren't using a blue effect. Now we have this:
Almost there now, don't fret. Duplicate your base again and bring it to the top. Set it to Overlay.
Perfect. Our effect is done now. It looks just like there's blue lights on him while he's onstage. Awesome. Now for the stuff that makes it an icon. I took a brush which I downloaded from
100x100_brushes and edited it a bit and put some boxes in it. I put it on screen on the right side of the icon.So now we have:
But something's missing, yes text, you got it. Since this is an Alkaline Trio icon *from a set I'm working on over at
emo_icon* I used a line from their song Sadie: "My little nightmare" You can set this to screen if you use it:Finally. We're finished.
Hopefully that helped you.
Let me see what you made with my effect!