Random Model Icon #2; Paint Shop Pro 9
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You start with the base, which is in the above picture, and crop it to your liking and resize it to your liking (I also sharpened mine a lot). Then, using point-to-point selection, select the bits of the main person/object in your picture. Here's mine:
(On my icon, she does't have the white spaces. I just saved her as .jpg and so she is not transparent.) I pasted her on a new 100pxx100px image.
Then, I went to http://funeralmonster.net/ and selected three stock photos, resized them each to about 40% of the original size, and cropped them.
I rotated the third one, and pasted all three underneath the layer of the girl, arranging them to my liking.
Then, because my icon was so colorless and boring, I made a new raster layer above that of the girl, and pasted blobs of color on her eyes and lips and set this layer to color (colors #01fff0 and #ff0000). I made another raster layer and using the color #ff0000 made a green streak down her arm by the pearls. I set this to color, opacity 36%.
Using the font Punch Label, I wrote in black "Strange Little Girl", rotated it, and stuck it on the right edge of my icon. Then, I brushed up my icon in yellows and oranges and pinks (the brushes I used will become available shortly).
I then made a new image, filled the background in black, then wrote using the font Chick-Fool-A wrote "retro chic" in #14ffff. Then, I went to selections > modify > expand and exanded it by 1 pixel. I pasted it onto my icon. Next to it, I drew a little heart and blotched it with #01ff0d (I drew the heart, then on a new layer behind it put a dab of the green).
And there you have a sweet new icon =)) Be sure not to follow this tutorial too closely. Let your creative spirit range! Comment, because I'd love to see what you do with this tutorial.