Texture Tutorial..
How to make backgrounds/textures like this: 
from scratch. Interested? :D
Tut: #5
Made in: PS CS3
Uses: Color layers, lighting effects, brushes, gradients, blend modes.
Translatable: Maybe/Mostly
(see this icon batch for more examples of the background)
1. Start off with a blank 100x100px square.
2. Fill it in with a solid color.
3. Duplicate that layer.
4. Go to Filter> Render> Lighting Effects.
Your settings should look something like this.
**If you think the effect is too much change the opacity.
5. Make a new layer.
6. Go to gradients, and select the "Foreground to Transparent" gradient.
7. And with black, drag your gradient line at an angle from top to bottom.
Should look a bit like this:
8. Set this layer to Soft Light at opacity 65%
9. Make a new layer.
10. Take a soft edge brush in white and make a solid circle. (I chose the Soft Round 65px brush)
The size of it should be about like this:
11. Now take your Move Tool and drag your brush layer across the icon wherever you like it.
12. Make that brush layer's opacity at about 20-30%
Like so:
13. Repeat steps 9-12.
Mine:
14. Now, repeat steps 9-11.
15. Turn this brush layer to Overlay at 30-60%.
Mine:
Optional:
16. Now I made another brush layer, set it at overlay at 16% to make it less of a contrast on the left side of my icon.
17. I added a texture and colored brush layers to show some other things you can do with something like this.
Be creative with it!!
and DONE! :D
also posted in
tamas_icons.
from scratch. Interested? :D
Tut: #5
Made in: PS CS3
Uses: Color layers, lighting effects, brushes, gradients, blend modes.
Translatable: Maybe/Mostly
(see this icon batch for more examples of the background)
1. Start off with a blank 100x100px square.
2. Fill it in with a solid color.
3. Duplicate that layer.
4. Go to Filter> Render> Lighting Effects.
Your settings should look something like this.
**If you think the effect is too much change the opacity.
5. Make a new layer.
6. Go to gradients, and select the "Foreground to Transparent" gradient.
7. And with black, drag your gradient line at an angle from top to bottom.
Should look a bit like this:
8. Set this layer to Soft Light at opacity 65%
9. Make a new layer.
10. Take a soft edge brush in white and make a solid circle. (I chose the Soft Round 65px brush)
The size of it should be about like this:
11. Now take your Move Tool and drag your brush layer across the icon wherever you like it.
12. Make that brush layer's opacity at about 20-30%
Like so:
13. Repeat steps 9-12.
Mine:
14. Now, repeat steps 9-11.
15. Turn this brush layer to Overlay at 30-60%.
Mine:
Optional:
16. Now I made another brush layer, set it at overlay at 16% to make it less of a contrast on the left side of my icon.
17. I added a texture and colored brush layers to show some other things you can do with something like this.
Be creative with it!!
and DONE! :D
also posted in
tamas_icons.