how to make this icon in photoshop7;

from this.


It's extremely picture heavy, sorry!
&it's not really for beginners.



1. crop the picture, &sharpen/blur as you see fit.
there are tutorials on this if you do not know how.



2. i want her skin to be more pale, so i duplicated the layer,
desaturated it, &set it to screen, 25%.





3. flatten the image.
zoom in very close to your photo,
&select the lips using the magnetic lassoo tool.
[or that's how i do it. use whatever, so long as you have the lips selected at the end.]



4. new layer via copy.



5. you should now have her lips on a new layer of it's own.
duplicate it once.
set the top copy to soft light, &the middle copy to multiply.
[you may want to blur the multiply &softlight layers.]



6. create a new layer above the rest, and then using
a red shade [i used #DD4900] draw a sorta line
where you think she should have blusher.



7. change the red paint layer to 'colour burn'.
it'll look very red, so reduce the opacity accordingly.
[i used 20%]
staying on that layer, go to filter > blur > motion blur



8. i blurred twice.




that gives me;



if you want to do eyeshadow, too..

9. create another new layer, over all the others.
pick a shade that you would like the eyeshadow to be.
set the layer to colour burn, &paint where you want the eyeshadow.
[you'll most probably need to lower the opacity.]


10. then again go to filter > blur > motion blur.
i used these settings.


&that's it, i guess. i'm left with;



just to finish, i duplicated the layer &set it to soft light, 50%.
this is just optional.
&so the final icon looks like this;




I'd love to see what people do with this! :)