PSP 7 Tutorial - Transferable
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This is a tutorial for PSP 7, but it should work it pretty much every graphics program possible :)
First, you'll want to crop and resize your image. I started with a picture from here, and decided to make an icon of Ana Lucia(Michelle Rodriguez) on the top left. Sharpen the image once or twice, depending on how you'd like it.
You're left with this:
Then, soften Ana's face and skin, trying to avoid her mouth and eyes and the lines that surround her face. Using these tools, you should get something that looks like this:
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That looks so much better now. Next, duplicate that layer, desaturate it, and set it to soft light. You're left with this:
Duplicate it again to make it slightly more dramatic.
Then, take the color #FFEFCF and paste it in a new layer, and set to Multiply 100%. This gives her some color back after the two desaturated soft light layers took it away.
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Next take this gradient(by gcpunkchick001) and paste it in a new layer, and set it to soft light 100%.
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Duplicate you base layer, bring it up to the top and set it at soft light 100%. I didn't want the red of her dress to get too skin-color-ish.
Then take this light texture(by ?) and place it between your base layer and you first desaturated soft light layer. Set it to screen 100%.
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Duplicate the screened layer and drag it up between the multiplied color and the soft light gradient. Lower it's opacity to 19%. Then duplicate it again and set it to 70% opacity.
It's a little too blue/green for this picture. I decided to make the 70% screen layer blend into Ana's dress, so using Colorize (Colors -> Colorize), I changed the settings to this to get the light texture to be more red.
It then made the image look like this:
All that's left to be done is to add whatever text and extra's you'd like. I've added Ana(Arial Narrow, size 22, kerning -75), Lucia(Arial Black, size 3), and a bunch of random small text at Arial size 1.
Then you should be left with your final image:
I hope that helped some. More tutorials coming soon, but I'd like to know what you'd like to see. Out of one of the next three icons preferably.
1.
2. 
3. 
Just tell me which one you'd like in your comments.
to .This is a tutorial for PSP 7, but it should work it pretty much every graphics program possible :)
First, you'll want to crop and resize your image. I started with a picture from here, and decided to make an icon of Ana Lucia(Michelle Rodriguez) on the top left. Sharpen the image once or twice, depending on how you'd like it.
You're left with this:
Then, soften Ana's face and skin, trying to avoid her mouth and eyes and the lines that surround her face. Using these tools, you should get something that looks like this:
-> That looks so much better now. Next, duplicate that layer, desaturate it, and set it to soft light. You're left with this:
Duplicate it again to make it slightly more dramatic.
Then, take the color #FFEFCF and paste it in a new layer, and set to Multiply 100%. This gives her some color back after the two desaturated soft light layers took it away.
-> Next take this gradient(by gcpunkchick001) and paste it in a new layer, and set it to soft light 100%.
-> Duplicate you base layer, bring it up to the top and set it at soft light 100%. I didn't want the red of her dress to get too skin-color-ish.
Then take this light texture(by ?) and place it between your base layer and you first desaturated soft light layer. Set it to screen 100%.
-> Duplicate the screened layer and drag it up between the multiplied color and the soft light gradient. Lower it's opacity to 19%. Then duplicate it again and set it to 70% opacity.
It's a little too blue/green for this picture. I decided to make the 70% screen layer blend into Ana's dress, so using Colorize (Colors -> Colorize), I changed the settings to this to get the light texture to be more red.
It then made the image look like this:
All that's left to be done is to add whatever text and extra's you'd like. I've added Ana(Arial Narrow, size 22, kerning -75), Lucia(Arial Black, size 3), and a bunch of random small text at Arial size 1.
Then you should be left with your final image:
I hope that helped some. More tutorials coming soon, but I'd like to know what you'd like to see. Out of one of the next three icons preferably.
1.
2. 3. Just tell me which one you'd like in your comments.