Tutorial #1
Icon Tutorial #1
Making
from this in PS.
First, crop the image down to 100x100, of whatever part of it that you want to be in the icon. I used
Duplicate it, and set it to soft light. It came out a little dark, so I lowered the opacity to 67%.
Next, and exclusion layer of #03182f and a layer of #ede4ce set to soft light. Both color layers should be set at 100% opacity.
These steps brought me to this:
Next, you should stamp the layer using CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E.
After the color layers, I added the text. I used the font called Eight Track, available here, in #03182f, size 24, and set to Sharp.
Move the layer of text underneath the stamped layer, and set the stamped layer to 72% opacity to get this:
From here, I outlined the text using Stroke (select outside instead of center) in white, and put a white border around the whole icon using Stroke, also (use center, not outside).
The final product was
.
Icon credit goes to tangeriinee or badasspeanut.
Making
from this in PS.
First, crop the image down to 100x100, of whatever part of it that you want to be in the icon. I used
Duplicate it, and set it to soft light. It came out a little dark, so I lowered the opacity to 67%.
Next, and exclusion layer of #03182f and a layer of #ede4ce set to soft light. Both color layers should be set at 100% opacity.
These steps brought me to this:
Next, you should stamp the layer using CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E.
After the color layers, I added the text. I used the font called Eight Track, available here, in #03182f, size 24, and set to Sharp.
Move the layer of text underneath the stamped layer, and set the stamped layer to 72% opacity to get this:
From here, I outlined the text using Stroke (select outside instead of center) in white, and put a white border around the whole icon using Stroke, also (use center, not outside).
The final product was
.
Icon credit goes to tangeriinee or badasspeanut.