Bosco & Faith "all I can taste is this moment" icon tutorial for PSP8
We're going from this screen cap to this icon: 
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Basic knowledge of Paint Shop Pro 8 is required. I don't know how it transfers from program to program, but I don't think it would be too difficult to accomplish if you felt you wanted to try it in say, Photoshop.
Feedback is much appreciated!
Anyway, the tutorial...
1. Start with this screen cap of Bosco (Jason Wiles) & Faith (Molly Price).
2. Using the square selection tool, select the area around Bosco. Copy the selection and paste it as a new image. Resize it to 100x100.
3. Clean up the image. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Edge Preserving Smooth.
4. Go back to original screen cap, and using the rectangle selection tool, select the area around Faith. Copy and paste the selection as a new image.
5. Clean up the image. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Edge Preserving Smooth.
6. Using the deform tool on the Faith image, shrink it until it's much smaller than the original size and can fit in the empty space on the base with Bosco. Copy and paste the new, small Faith image on the Bosco base as a new layer. You can continue to adjust the size of the Faith layer with the deform tool if you feel it needs to be resized.
7. Either on a new layer or on the Faith layer itself, use the paint brush tool to paint a white rectangle (I used a 2 pixel square brush) around the small Faith image. To make this easier, I suggest increasing the zoom on the image from 100% to 500% or bigger.
8. Create a new raster layer and flood fill it with this gradient:
by crumblingwalls. Set the blend mode layer to "Soft Light" at 100% opacity.
9. Create another new raster layer and flood fill it with this gradient:
also by crumblingwalls. Set the blend mode layer to "Burn" at 66% opacity.
As these gradients are both from the same set, you can download both these gradients here.
10. On a new raster layer, using a small 2 pixel square brush, I drew the little design in the corner. It's a couple of short, criss-crossing lines, nothing too complicated. It looks fine as a solid white line, but if you want the faded look like I have, draw the line as a white texture instead of a solid color, or change the blend mode of the layer. I admit I wasn't really experimenting with this, but one of those two options should work.
11. Text time! Create a vector layer and using the text "Arial Black" at size 5, type "All I can taste is this" in capital letters. Size 5 text is not an option in PSP 8. To get around this, type in 5 in the size box and then type your text. This will produce the size you want. Highlighting the text and then typing 5 in the size box doesn't change the size.
12. Create another new vector layer. In the font "Mistral" (or, if you prefer, use the text "Minstrel" as it's nearly the same thing) at size 18, type the word "moment" in all lowercase letters. Set this vector layer's blend mode to "Hard Light" at 66% opacity.
13. Position the text layers to your liking.
14. On another new raster layer I used this texture brush:
by hownovel. For this tutorial, the brush is black, but I would suggest using white on your icon, with the layer blend mode set to "Normal" at 100% opacity. I don't know where I downloaded this brush from, but if you wish to make the brush yourself in PSP 8, you can learn how to do so here in a tutorial by teh_indy.
15. Using the move tool, I moved the layer down, so that the texture wouldn't cover Bosco and Faith's faces, and only the bottom of the icon has texture.
16. Save, and you're done.
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Basic knowledge of Paint Shop Pro 8 is required. I don't know how it transfers from program to program, but I don't think it would be too difficult to accomplish if you felt you wanted to try it in say, Photoshop.
Feedback is much appreciated!
Anyway, the tutorial...
1. Start with this screen cap of Bosco (Jason Wiles) & Faith (Molly Price).
2. Using the square selection tool, select the area around Bosco. Copy the selection and paste it as a new image. Resize it to 100x100.
3. Clean up the image. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Edge Preserving Smooth.
4. Go back to original screen cap, and using the rectangle selection tool, select the area around Faith. Copy and paste the selection as a new image.
5. Clean up the image. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Edge Preserving Smooth.
6. Using the deform tool on the Faith image, shrink it until it's much smaller than the original size and can fit in the empty space on the base with Bosco. Copy and paste the new, small Faith image on the Bosco base as a new layer. You can continue to adjust the size of the Faith layer with the deform tool if you feel it needs to be resized.
7. Either on a new layer or on the Faith layer itself, use the paint brush tool to paint a white rectangle (I used a 2 pixel square brush) around the small Faith image. To make this easier, I suggest increasing the zoom on the image from 100% to 500% or bigger.
8. Create a new raster layer and flood fill it with this gradient:
by crumblingwalls. Set the blend mode layer to "Soft Light" at 100% opacity.
9. Create another new raster layer and flood fill it with this gradient:
also by crumblingwalls. Set the blend mode layer to "Burn" at 66% opacity.
As these gradients are both from the same set, you can download both these gradients here.
10. On a new raster layer, using a small 2 pixel square brush, I drew the little design in the corner. It's a couple of short, criss-crossing lines, nothing too complicated. It looks fine as a solid white line, but if you want the faded look like I have, draw the line as a white texture instead of a solid color, or change the blend mode of the layer. I admit I wasn't really experimenting with this, but one of those two options should work.
11. Text time! Create a vector layer and using the text "Arial Black" at size 5, type "All I can taste is this" in capital letters. Size 5 text is not an option in PSP 8. To get around this, type in 5 in the size box and then type your text. This will produce the size you want. Highlighting the text and then typing 5 in the size box doesn't change the size.
12. Create another new vector layer. In the font "Mistral" (or, if you prefer, use the text "Minstrel" as it's nearly the same thing) at size 18, type the word "moment" in all lowercase letters. Set this vector layer's blend mode to "Hard Light" at 66% opacity.
13. Position the text layers to your liking.
14. On another new raster layer I used this texture brush:
by hownovel. For this tutorial, the brush is black, but I would suggest using white on your icon, with the layer blend mode set to "Normal" at 100% opacity. I don't know where I downloaded this brush from, but if you wish to make the brush yourself in PSP 8, you can learn how to do so here in a tutorial by teh_indy.
15. Using the move tool, I moved the layer down, so that the texture wouldn't cover Bosco and Faith's faces, and only the bottom of the icon has texture.
16. Save, and you're done.