Full tutorial made with PSP7

Don't know if anyone is interested in this tutorial. Had someone ask me how to make it so I thought I would give it a try.





I started with a base that I made from this picture that I got from the Smallville website.


I cropped and resized the picture to 100x100


Duplicate the background

Negative image


Grey scale

Increase color depth to 16 million colors

Set the copy of background to Dodge


Now you want to blur the copy of background
Gaussian blur @ 4


Merge all layers

Use the eraser tool to clean up the picture a little
Settings I used are
Size: 11
Hardness: 80
Opacity: 40
Step: 1
Density: 100



Now you want to make the black a little darker so you need to go to colors:adjust-levels and play around with the top slider bar until it looks the way you want it.


Invert the colors
Colors: negative image


Mask: New: from image
A Pop-up should appear. Make sure the settings are Source Window: this window and source luminance is checked . Click ok.

Go back to Mask: Save to disk
Name and save the mask in your mask folder.

Open a new canvas with white background at 100X100

I used this 100x100 brush that I made myself.


Color used #066A9E


Create new layer and flood fill with same color used with brush


Now add the mask that you created
Mask: load from disk
Choose the mask that you created and click open. Adjust the opacity until you get the look you want.

Finished Icon


This Icon made with same method using a different color and brush.