xeyra wrote in icon_tutorial

Tutorial: River Tam Header & Icon

TUTORIAL: RIVER TAM HEADER & ICON

I was asked for a tutorial on the following icon:



This icon was actually cropped out of a larger graphic I made, and the process is a) a bit confusing, and b) missing one step in my PSD, so this is a sort of attempt at a tutorial for this header. Hopefully you'll manage to follow it anyway.

WARNING: IMAGE HEAVY (though it's all thumbnails) and LONG (because I seem to do everything the most complicated way possible...). Uses Color Balance and Variations. Made in Photoshop CS2 and I'm not sure if it's translatable.

FROM this to this

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