easy brightness/colouring tutorial using psp9

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Start with a picture, cropped and stuff in a cool, non centered way. Today, we are using this gorgeous picture of Bethany Joy Lenz

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So here we have it cropped and anything. I didn't sharpen it because it was a good quality picture, so If you want to sharpen it and do that pre-icon making stuff, it's up to you.
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Next, set the following on burn 50
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Then this one on burn 48
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And then this, on overlay 75 or so. Something like that 0_o
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add border, optional and text, which is optional and up to you :)

Final Product!
final product with a text brush
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Hope this helps someone!! :)