Gradient maps are one of the quickest and easiest ways to add colour and contrast to an icon. I'm not particularly up-to-date with the latest icon trends, but I haven't seen a good tutorial for their use yet, so here's one. Well, a tutorial - you decide if it's any good. It's relatively detailed, so you should be ok with beginner to medium ( Read more... )

rawkenr0ll wanted tutorials, so here are two, done while I was supposed to do other things, ahem. There might be more on the weekend, because I like doing this.

Tutorial 1 - Grey People and Coloured Textures

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This is not really my favourite icon of mine, but it's quickly done and uses a few techniques that I think might be useful to others, so I whipped up a quick tutorial.

Done in Photoshop CS, requires basic to intermediate skills.

Let's go from the lovely "Goodbye Blues" promo pic to this icon of Greta:
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