Tutorial #1
Errrr, yes, this is a little random. One tutorial of an icon I made for the Will Turner icons100 batch today. I guess I like it. ^^ Hopefully it should be useful for you, and if it isn't, I tried, right?
7 steps
1 curves layer
PS 7 (may be translatable)
1. Start off by cropping your picture. I've cropped my picture to 150px x 150px, so I can rotate it to fit on the icon.
2. Copy and paste this onto a new base, sized 100px x 100px, and rotate until it looks good.
3. Sharpen your base once and make two duplicate layers. Set the first one to screen, and the second one to overlay.
4. Set the screened layer to 30% opacity, and desaturate it. Click on your overlayed layer, and set the saturation to -24.
5. Make a new layer, set the mode to exclusion and fill with #010832, at 100% opacity.
6. Make a new curves layer, with the following settings: red curves, or:
[RED]
Input: 190
Output: 214
Input: 83
Output: 65
7. You can leave it like that if you want, but I decided to add something more to it. I used this brush, part of one from The Magic Box, in white in the corner of the image. I then added some text, "sorrow", in festus! at 14pt, colour #010832, with another brush from The Magic Box.
And you're done! Pretty easy right? =] If you have any questions or problems, just comment -- I'll be happy to help!
PS: The icons will be up soon. ^^
7 steps
1 curves layer
PS 7 (may be translatable)
1. Start off by cropping your picture. I've cropped my picture to 150px x 150px, so I can rotate it to fit on the icon.
2. Copy and paste this onto a new base, sized 100px x 100px, and rotate until it looks good.
3. Sharpen your base once and make two duplicate layers. Set the first one to screen, and the second one to overlay.
4. Set the screened layer to 30% opacity, and desaturate it. Click on your overlayed layer, and set the saturation to -24.
5. Make a new layer, set the mode to exclusion and fill with #010832, at 100% opacity.
6. Make a new curves layer, with the following settings: red curves, or:
[RED]
Input: 190
Output: 214
Input: 83
Output: 65
7. You can leave it like that if you want, but I decided to add something more to it. I used this brush, part of one from The Magic Box, in white in the corner of the image. I then added some text, "sorrow", in festus! at 14pt, colour #010832, with another brush from The Magic Box.
And you're done! Pretty easy right? =] If you have any questions or problems, just comment -- I'll be happy to help!
PS: The icons will be up soon. ^^