Tutorial 1: Lost and Late Charlie Icon
This is my second tutorial, but the first I've posted via this journal. Made from PS7 in just 6 simple steps, it does require a bit of basic knowledge. :)
I’d also like to apologise to the maker of the gradient, because I can’t remember who you are. If anyone knows, tell me and I’ll credit accordingly.
Click on the cut below to learn how to get this spiffy icon ->
STEP 1:
Here are the basics:
You can use other images to create a similar icon, just try to keep the proportions similar for easier practice.
For the Charlie image - Crop/Sharpen twice, smooth parts of his face, then duplicate 3 times: the layers (from bottom) should be screen, softlight, then screen again on top.
For the Late image - Crop/resize/sharpen twice, then duplicate 4 times: the layers (from bottom) should be screen, softlight (at 70% opacity), lighten, and screen on top.
STEP 2:
Creating your icon proper:
Start with this wonderful texture base by colorfilter
Follwed by our Charlie image, placing it slightly towards the right, and the Late image towards the top left to get this :
STEP 3:
Brush time!
Create a new layer and use a brush to mix and match several round circly thingies by cosmo_mouse in #784C34 to come up with this:
Still a far cry from the awesome icon it will be, but we’re already halfway there!
STEP 4:
Overlaps - it gets a bit complicated here, so be careful!
Bring your Late image ABOVE the circle brush layer so that it’s covering a bit of the circle.
Use the sharpen tool to sharpen the words a bit.
Then go to Blending Options/Outer Glow at opacity 75% in #FFFFBE - to give a bit of a glowy effect around the image.
Duplicate the texture base, put it on top and set at Overlay, 100%
This is what you should get -
Yes, Charlie looks like a sunburnt lobster, but we’ll soon fix that!
STEP 5:
Magic Time
Duplicate the Charlie image and place it on top.
Use your Magic Wand Tool to DELETE the background (hold down the SHIFT key to select more than one area, then hit DELETE), get rid of the selection by right clicking and selecting Deselect.
Go Image/Adjustment/Desaturate
Set at Hard Light, 100%
Now his skin tone looks much much better.
STEP 6:
Lastly, it’s Gradient time!
Create a new layer and insert this gradient (Angle: 45 degrees)
Set at Soft Light, 25%
So all in all, you should get something like this:
Easy peasy, wasn’t it? Charlie looks just great.
Any comments that you have on this icon are very much appreciated.
Have fun experimenting with your own image!
I’d also like to apologise to the maker of the gradient, because I can’t remember who you are. If anyone knows, tell me and I’ll credit accordingly.
Click on the cut below to learn how to get this spiffy icon ->
STEP 1:
Here are the basics:
You can use other images to create a similar icon, just try to keep the proportions similar for easier practice.
For the Charlie image - Crop/Sharpen twice, smooth parts of his face, then duplicate 3 times: the layers (from bottom) should be screen, softlight, then screen again on top.
For the Late image - Crop/resize/sharpen twice, then duplicate 4 times: the layers (from bottom) should be screen, softlight (at 70% opacity), lighten, and screen on top.
STEP 2:
Creating your icon proper:
Start with this wonderful texture base by colorfilter
Follwed by our Charlie image, placing it slightly towards the right, and the Late image towards the top left to get this :
STEP 3:
Brush time!
Create a new layer and use a brush to mix and match several round circly thingies by cosmo_mouse in #784C34 to come up with this:
Still a far cry from the awesome icon it will be, but we’re already halfway there!
STEP 4:
Overlaps - it gets a bit complicated here, so be careful!
Bring your Late image ABOVE the circle brush layer so that it’s covering a bit of the circle.
Use the sharpen tool to sharpen the words a bit.
Then go to Blending Options/Outer Glow at opacity 75% in #FFFFBE - to give a bit of a glowy effect around the image.
Duplicate the texture base, put it on top and set at Overlay, 100%
This is what you should get -
Yes, Charlie looks like a sunburnt lobster, but we’ll soon fix that!
STEP 5:
Magic Time
Duplicate the Charlie image and place it on top.
Use your Magic Wand Tool to DELETE the background (hold down the SHIFT key to select more than one area, then hit DELETE), get rid of the selection by right clicking and selecting Deselect.
Go Image/Adjustment/Desaturate
Set at Hard Light, 100%
Now his skin tone looks much much better.
STEP 6:
Lastly, it’s Gradient time!
Create a new layer and insert this gradient (Angle: 45 degrees)
Set at Soft Light, 25%
So all in all, you should get something like this:
Easy peasy, wasn’t it? Charlie looks just great.
Any comments that you have on this icon are very much appreciated.
Have fun experimenting with your own image!