Jewels Tutorial
I decided to make a tutorial to go with the sample icon of my Jewels Textures set.
Go from this:
to this:
1. I started with an image of Joey Yung from her Show Up album booklet and cropped it down to 100x100:
2. This image seems suited to fiery colors. I used two gradients by nightfall_icons. Set the first one to SCREEN 100 and the second gradient to SCREEN 60.
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3. Don't flatten the image just yet. Duplicate the base layer, bring it to the top, then set it to SOFT LIGHT 100. Now you may flatten. :p
4. Take this texture from my Jewels Textures set and set it to LIGHTEN 100.
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5. Some of the jewels are covering her face, so you'll need to erase some. Make your eraser about 5 pixels round and change the settings to HARDNESS 20, OPACITY 20. Then erase some of the parts covering her face and body. Flatten the image.
6. It's a bit washed out so I created a new layer and filled it with a light, purple color. Set that to BURN 100. Flatten the image.
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7. Now all it needs is a border. I created a new layer and drew around a 3-5 pixel wide white border. Set the layer to DISSOLVE 70. You can adjust the dissolve settings, but that's around where I did it. On the bottom I took a baby text brush by fangirls_inc. Create a new layer, make the brush color black, and set it to OVERLAY 100. Flatten your image and voila! Instant, sparkly pretty-ness. :)
Go from this:
to this:
1. I started with an image of Joey Yung from her Show Up album booklet and cropped it down to 100x100:
2. This image seems suited to fiery colors. I used two gradients by nightfall_icons. Set the first one to SCREEN 100 and the second gradient to SCREEN 60.
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-
3. Don't flatten the image just yet. Duplicate the base layer, bring it to the top, then set it to SOFT LIGHT 100. Now you may flatten. :p
4. Take this texture from my Jewels Textures set and set it to LIGHTEN 100.
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5. Some of the jewels are covering her face, so you'll need to erase some. Make your eraser about 5 pixels round and change the settings to HARDNESS 20, OPACITY 20. Then erase some of the parts covering her face and body. Flatten the image.
6. It's a bit washed out so I created a new layer and filled it with a light, purple color. Set that to BURN 100. Flatten the image.
-
7. Now all it needs is a border. I created a new layer and drew around a 3-5 pixel wide white border. Set the layer to DISSOLVE 70. You can adjust the dissolve settings, but that's around where I did it. On the bottom I took a baby text brush by fangirls_inc. Create a new layer, make the brush color black, and set it to OVERLAY 100. Flatten your image and voila! Instant, sparkly pretty-ness. :)