Tutorial #6 - Pirate Beach
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Start out with your base layer.
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Duplicate the base layer three times. Sharpen the second layer, set the third to Screen at 100%, and set the top layer to Soft Light at 100%. I like to leave the original layer alone, so that I can duplicate it and use it again if I want to. This is my standard start to an icon; from here I determine what I want to do with it.
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Create a new layer on top of everything, fill it with black, and set to Color.
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Create two new layers with this texture by silverqe:
. Set the lower one to Color Burn at 10% and the top one to Overlay at 70%.
That's all! Feel free to comment with icons made based on this - I'd love to see what you come up with. You're welcome to use the icon and base image to practice, but please don't post them as if they were your own.
Please comment if you have questions, problems, ideas, requests for other tutorials, or anything else!
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to
1.
Start out with your base layer.
2.
Duplicate the base layer three times. Sharpen the second layer, set the third to Screen at 100%, and set the top layer to Soft Light at 100%. I like to leave the original layer alone, so that I can duplicate it and use it again if I want to. This is my standard start to an icon; from here I determine what I want to do with it.
3.
Create a new layer on top of everything, fill it with black, and set to Color.
4.
Create two new layers with this texture by silverqe:
. Set the lower one to Color Burn at 10% and the top one to Overlay at 70%.
That's all! Feel free to comment with icons made based on this - I'd love to see what you come up with. You're welcome to use the icon and base image to practice, but please don't post them as if they were your own.
Please comment if you have questions, problems, ideas, requests for other tutorials, or anything else!
Other tutorials | Recent icons