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This tutorial was requested by harlemqueen. The icon is from my Miyavi 10Variations set.
How to make this icon;
This is our original image. It's fine how it is as a base image so we just crop it wtih a 10x8.9 ratio and resize it to 100x89 pixels. We're left with this:
It's a little blury so we sharpen it once. And because I know I want the butterfly pattern on his shirt to be a focal point I sharpen that too, along with his hair, and come out with this:
Okay. Now that we finally have the base image looking like we want, it's time to actually set to work on the final product.
Because I knew it would look better with the glowing dots if it were black and white I desaturated the image. It was a little too gray to look as clean and crisp as I wanted so I changed the brightness/contrast to Brightness+6 and Contrast+33 and came out with this:
All right. Remember me talking about the butterfly on Meevers' shirt? Here's where we get to have fun with that. Before I'd set in motion the workings of this icon I knew that I wanted the colour to be red. You can choose any colour you want. On a new layer we colour over the butterfly design in our colour of choice (I picked red) and set it to Overly at 100%.
Here's what we get:
This next step is actually pretty cool. I learned it from another tutorial but I don't remember who it was by, so I'm sorry! The glowing dot of doom!
Okay. Set your foreground colour to red and your background colour to black. On a new layer select the little circle-gradient maker and add the gradient. It should look something like this:
Then you simply have to set it to screen and presto! There's a nifty little "glowing dot" as an accent.
Now it's time for the final step. I'm not sure exactly where the brush "youandme" came from, but it is listed in my brush folder under "juvenile casualty." So if it's yours or you know exactly where it came from don't hesitate to tell me so I can credit properly, ne?
I placed it on the icon in black on a new layer and then drug it underneath of the glowing dot layer, making sure to get rid of any of the stray marks that might have been on Miyavi's face and whatnot. Though this would also work if you'd have rather written or doodled or whatever, so long as it was in black and then put under the glow-dot layer.
Because the majority of the image is white, and i know a lot of pages are white, I added a one pixel black border to seperate it from fading in to everything else.
And we get this, our final product:
And that's it! Hope it was helpful! ^_^
How to make this icon;
This is our original image. It's fine how it is as a base image so we just crop it wtih a 10x8.9 ratio and resize it to 100x89 pixels. We're left with this:
It's a little blury so we sharpen it once. And because I know I want the butterfly pattern on his shirt to be a focal point I sharpen that too, along with his hair, and come out with this:
Okay. Now that we finally have the base image looking like we want, it's time to actually set to work on the final product.
Because I knew it would look better with the glowing dots if it were black and white I desaturated the image. It was a little too gray to look as clean and crisp as I wanted so I changed the brightness/contrast to Brightness+6 and Contrast+33 and came out with this:
All right. Remember me talking about the butterfly on Meevers' shirt? Here's where we get to have fun with that. Before I'd set in motion the workings of this icon I knew that I wanted the colour to be red. You can choose any colour you want. On a new layer we colour over the butterfly design in our colour of choice (I picked red) and set it to Overly at 100%.
Here's what we get:
This next step is actually pretty cool. I learned it from another tutorial but I don't remember who it was by, so I'm sorry! The glowing dot of doom!
Okay. Set your foreground colour to red and your background colour to black. On a new layer select the little circle-gradient maker and add the gradient. It should look something like this:
Then you simply have to set it to screen and presto! There's a nifty little "glowing dot" as an accent.
Now it's time for the final step. I'm not sure exactly where the brush "youandme" came from, but it is listed in my brush folder under "juvenile casualty." So if it's yours or you know exactly where it came from don't hesitate to tell me so I can credit properly, ne?
I placed it on the icon in black on a new layer and then drug it underneath of the glowing dot layer, making sure to get rid of any of the stray marks that might have been on Miyavi's face and whatnot. Though this would also work if you'd have rather written or doodled or whatever, so long as it was in black and then put under the glow-dot layer.
Because the majority of the image is white, and i know a lot of pages are white, I added a one pixel black border to seperate it from fading in to everything else.
And we get this, our final product:
And that's it! Hope it was helpful! ^_^