okay, this is my third tut. I just was fooling around and came across it. And i felt the need to post it for people to use.
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Okay so i started with this image:
of the all ever hot Bill.
Then i cropped it down to 100x100:
Then sharpened it once:
I duplicated the image and set it to screen 100%:
Then I made a new layer and used #2b2f51, set it to exclusion at 100%:
Then merge all. Also then take the sharpen tool and sharpen the eyes and mouth. The eyes you might need to do twice.:
Then I took this gradient:
and set it to Lighten 100%:
Then this is where the two icons split up. Where you can go either way.
You are going to take this gradient:
and set it to soft light to get this: 
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Now that it where one of the icons ends. You can take that one ((to brighten it do shift+B; brightness 19, contrast 10)) and leave it like that your can keep going with this next part.
Next, you can go back to step when you just pasted that last gradient, and instead of putting it as softlight, put it as lighten 100% which will have you at this:
Then what I did was merged all layers and then pressed Shift+B. When the it pops up set it as brightness around 19 and contrast around 10. which will make it look like this:
Then just add text. I used PlumNDE at 11 with regular black color. But with a .5 Stroke. Also, if you want to know how to make the dot line, find your Pen tool, set the color to whatever you want. But leave the bottom color as transparent. Then find your line style and put it is dots.
This is the final product:
And there you go! You've done it. Long, but sooo worth it.
I'd love to see your icons too!
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to or Okay so i started with this image:
of the all ever hot Bill.Then i cropped it down to 100x100:
Then sharpened it once:
I duplicated the image and set it to screen 100%:
Then I made a new layer and used #2b2f51, set it to exclusion at 100%:
Then merge all. Also then take the sharpen tool and sharpen the eyes and mouth. The eyes you might need to do twice.:
Then I took this gradient:
and set it to Lighten 100%:Then this is where the two icons split up. Where you can go either way.
You are going to take this gradient:
and set it to soft light to get this: .Now that it where one of the icons ends. You can take that one ((to brighten it do shift+B; brightness 19, contrast 10)) and leave it like that your can keep going with this next part.
Next, you can go back to step when you just pasted that last gradient, and instead of putting it as softlight, put it as lighten 100% which will have you at this:
Then what I did was merged all layers and then pressed Shift+B. When the it pops up set it as brightness around 19 and contrast around 10. which will make it look like this:
Then just add text. I used PlumNDE at 11 with regular black color. But with a .5 Stroke. Also, if you want to know how to make the dot line, find your Pen tool, set the color to whatever you want. But leave the bottom color as transparent. Then find your line style and put it is dots.
This is the final product:
And there you go! You've done it. Long, but sooo worth it.
I'd love to see your icons too!