First Icon tutorial~ [The FLY]

[kamyla_tamara]

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First, take a picture and crop it to 100x100 or 98x98 or 96x96 (if you want border)
Decide on the colour scheme for your icon.
For this picture, I chose a more elemental colours.
Take this texture
from erniemay
Set it to colour burn 100%. Beautiful!


I love the reddish end but it's a little too red.

So i use this texture
from xonlyashesx to define the lines.
Set it to Colour Burn 80% Fill, 80% Opacity


Duplicate the base and drag it to the top, set it to Soft Light 100%;
it will lighten the icon.


To balance the colour, use a texture that focuses on the top of the icon like
from erniemay,
Set it to Soft Light 100%, pretty! *O*


Duplicate the base and drag it to the top again, and set it to Linear Burn, it darkens the image and redefined more lines.


Add a neutral base colour or texture to lighten it, I've used
from xonlyashesx. Set it to Soft Light.


Duplicate your layer again, and set it to Darken. Not much of a difference though.


Add a light texture
from millepetit, and set it to Lighten.


Contrast this light texture by choosing another light texture that focuses the top
.
I used from millepetit. Set it to lighten.


There you have! A base icon!

--- for text ---

For the word Fly, I used Zenda for the letter "F" and Blackfamily for "ly".
Change the tracking to -75 for "ly" so they don't look too separated.


Add layer style, to drop shadow and inner glow.
(Layer -> Layer Style -> Drop Shadow/Inner Glow)

--- for border (Set to 96 - 98px before)

Flatten the image(Layer -> Flatten Image)
Open a new file. Set it to 100 x 100
Use a border brush or image,
(for my case i used this border brush
from wicked_avis) and applied onto the border
Drag your flatten image to the border and adjust it. VOILA!


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Do feel free to ask questions!
Check my resource page here.
Clow card pictures from: silvan_rain