Icon Tutorial 1
I've had alot of people lately asking how I make some of my icons, so I decided to make a little tutorial for those who are interested. It's rather easy and I hope it's not confusing since it's my very first tutorial. If you have any questions just leave a comment and I'll try to answer. Thanks!
Tutorial is for this icon:
First I started off with this image and cropped it to icon size.
Next I duplicated the image and set it to soft light with 0.5 smart blur.
Next I duplicated the image again and added a gradient effect at hard light with 25% opacity.
After, I added a new layer and filled it with #F3F0C2 and set it to color burn
Then I added another gradient setting it to Linear Burn at 50% opacity.
I then start to add the text & any brushes that would go along with it.
Clark seemed a bit too dark so I just lightened him up by creating a new layer and setting it to screen with a 77% fill opacity and erasing the parts that were too light.
It still seemed a bit dark to me so I added a simple white layer to soft light at 50% fill opacity and just erased the outer layers to make Clark stand out more.
Finished product:
Tutorial is for this icon:
First I started off with this image and cropped it to icon size.
Next I duplicated the image and set it to soft light with 0.5 smart blur.
Next I duplicated the image again and added a gradient effect at hard light with 25% opacity.
After, I added a new layer and filled it with #F3F0C2 and set it to color burn
Then I added another gradient setting it to Linear Burn at 50% opacity.
I then start to add the text & any brushes that would go along with it.
Clark seemed a bit too dark so I just lightened him up by creating a new layer and setting it to screen with a 77% fill opacity and erasing the parts that were too light.
It still seemed a bit dark to me so I added a simple white layer to soft light at 50% fill opacity and just erased the outer layers to make Clark stand out more.
Finished product: