Tutorial #1 Light textures
Okay, so here is my first attempt at a tutorial! andeincascade wanted to know how I did the light texture in my car entry over at sg1cascadeicons 
, so I got a cap and I walked her through some steps. Here is what I wrote down as I made this icon. If you have any questions ask away.
Comments are Love
Credit is appreciated
Feel free to take
Enjoy!!!
Teaser:
Go from this
To this
These are made with PS Elements 2.0 so you don't have to worry about not having all the whistles and bells I certainly don't have them, lol. This is just adding textures to enhance your icons.
This is the picture I used.
Cropped cap.
1st Texture, added this texture by blimey_icons 03_07 from texture set03_01to56. Set at soft light set opacity at 68%. Now the reason I added this first texture is that his face is so red adding the green even outs his skin tone.
****Note: Opacity settings can be anything you want on some icons you may want to go higher or lower, just move it till you get a shade coloring you like, :).
2nd texture, added this texture by blimey_icons 03_35 from texture set03_01to56. Set at multiply 100% smudged and erased the texture a bit around his face. This looks dark.
3rd texture, added this texture by blimey_icons 03_44 from texture set03_01to56 Set to soft light set opacity at 58% This lightened it up a bit.
4th texture, added this light texture by meleada Spark19 from Light texture Set Sparklies. Set to screen 100% And again erased bits that covered his face.
If you don't have these textures by Meleada go now and get them they really enhance your icons!!!
5th texture, added this light texture by meleada Spark05 from Light texture Set Sparklies. Set to screen 100% And again erased around his face and hair a bit. I also moved this around a little.
This is just the 2nd texture and the 5th texture. So that you can see the difference it makes.
6th texture, added this light texture by meleada Spark01 from Light texture Set Sparklies. Set to screen set opacity at 62% And again erased some on his face.
2nd and 6th textures only. And you can see how the color is just a little different.
7th texture, added this light texture by meleada Spark08 from Light texture Set Sparklies. Set to screen 100% I moved this one around on the cap so that you only see some of the green, blue, pink, circles on the bottom.
2nd and 7th texture, LOL as I look at this I may have used the darker of the caps. But it could also be the textures because as you can see each of the textures added gives it a different coloring.
Final with all textures on.
Now go and Have fun with light textures!
, so I got a cap and I walked her through some steps. Here is what I wrote down as I made this icon. If you have any questions ask away.
Comments are Love
Credit is appreciated
Feel free to take
Enjoy!!!
Teaser:
Go from this
To this
These are made with PS Elements 2.0 so you don't have to worry about not having all the whistles and bells I certainly don't have them, lol. This is just adding textures to enhance your icons.
This is the picture I used.
Cropped cap.
1st Texture, added this texture by blimey_icons 03_07 from texture set03_01to56. Set at soft light set opacity at 68%. Now the reason I added this first texture is that his face is so red adding the green even outs his skin tone.
****Note: Opacity settings can be anything you want on some icons you may want to go higher or lower, just move it till you get a shade coloring you like, :).
2nd texture, added this texture by blimey_icons 03_35 from texture set03_01to56. Set at multiply 100% smudged and erased the texture a bit around his face. This looks dark.
3rd texture, added this texture by blimey_icons 03_44 from texture set03_01to56 Set to soft light set opacity at 58% This lightened it up a bit.
4th texture, added this light texture by meleada Spark19 from Light texture Set Sparklies. Set to screen 100% And again erased bits that covered his face.
If you don't have these textures by Meleada go now and get them they really enhance your icons!!!
5th texture, added this light texture by meleada Spark05 from Light texture Set Sparklies. Set to screen 100% And again erased around his face and hair a bit. I also moved this around a little.
This is just the 2nd texture and the 5th texture. So that you can see the difference it makes.
6th texture, added this light texture by meleada Spark01 from Light texture Set Sparklies. Set to screen set opacity at 62% And again erased some on his face.
2nd and 6th textures only. And you can see how the color is just a little different.
7th texture, added this light texture by meleada Spark08 from Light texture Set Sparklies. Set to screen 100% I moved this one around on the cap so that you only see some of the green, blue, pink, circles on the bottom.
2nd and 7th texture, LOL as I look at this I may have used the darker of the caps. But it could also be the textures because as you can see each of the textures added gives it a different coloring.
Final with all textures on.
Now go and Have fun with light textures!