tutorial #7-- gravity

Jun 30, 2006 19:15

hey guys! fragilecat asked me how i made one of my x-men icons, so here we go. PLEASE DON'T COPY THIS EXACTLY! how to make this (in PS7):


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alina_crystal June 30 2006, 23:34:13 UTC
This looks amazing! I would try this if I had PS, but I have PSP.

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girls_are_weird July 1 2006, 22:04:44 UTC
i'm pretty sure it's translatable... at least to some extent. i don't think PSP has an equivalent to a selective color layer but maybe you can get it with color variations? not sure but it would be worth a try ^^ anyway, i'm glad you liked the tutorial.

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girls_are_weird July 1 2006, 22:05:31 UTC
the original comic books rule my world ^-^ i'm glad you liked the tut. and thanks for telling me the makers of the textures! i'll go and edit them in right now.

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plafulmispeling July 1 2006, 00:55:02 UTC
Very nice tutorial. I enjoyed your commentary very much as well.

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girls_are_weird July 1 2006, 22:07:37 UTC
thank you! i'm glad ^____^

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notashamed July 1 2006, 01:14:03 UTC
great tut! i used your basic ideas, but went more for red/pink than blue and used different textures, and i got this:

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girls_are_weird July 1 2006, 22:08:39 UTC
that looks very good! i like your cropping =) i'm glad you could apply the techniques i explained and give them your own twist ^.^

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fragilecat July 1 2006, 06:46:41 UTC
Oh this is great... thanks... a bigbig thanks *hugsyou*
I'm adding it to my memorie :)

When I make an icon with it I'll show you.... thanks again!!

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girls_are_weird July 1 2006, 22:10:18 UTC
you're very welcome! i'm glad you found it useful ^-^

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Question. fragilecat July 1 2006, 23:45:48 UTC
Hello, this is an anonymous icon-viewer who has been experimenting with Photoshop for quite some time now, and I have to say, this has been by far the most useful piece of information I've found. Thank you SO much!

Also, I have a question. It must be very basic, because you didn't go into it very much, but..why did you duplicate your text layers? Did you add effects or something? When I duplicate my text layers, it just seems to make the text..bolder. Thanks much if you can answer this for me.

Once again, thank you for making this amazingly simply tutorial. I'll post what I ended up with soon, I'm kinda short on time at the moment. :)

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Re: Question. girls_are_weird July 2 2006, 20:27:11 UTC
i'm glad you found this to be useful! i worry so much that people won't understand what i'm trying to explain #_#;;; i'm glad you think it's simple.

the text thing, well that's basically it-- i didn't add any effects to the layers, just wanted the text to be darker. sometimes when i want the text i don't just bold it, but instead duplicate the layer... it's mostly because some fonts can't be "bolded", though i could, in this case, since it was century gothic... but i don't usually like bolding fonts in icons because it makes the letters wider as well and i don't want that >.< when you duplicate it does make them darker, it makes them stand out more without affecting the width or spacing between the letters. i guess it depends-- it's just personal taste for me. you could go with bold letters and have pretty similar results ^_^

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