It's only work if someone makes you do it.
A requested House/Wilson tutorial, because GAY is IN. And also hot.
01. Create a new 100x100 canvas and paste on your image. Mine, I think, was 95x70 or thereabouts, and you can't see all of it yet because the background is white. (But that'll be fixed later.)
02. Duplicate it, sharpen it, desaturate it (I also used -29 on lightness, but I'm a freak with odd preferences) and set it on screen. Then duplicate that screened layer twice more to make it nice and bright.
03. Now, here's the easiest colorizing tutorial you've ever read. Seriously. Check this shit out:
<- burn, 20%
<- soft light, 37%
<- darken, 38%
... Ta da!
04: Now, to do away with the sharp edges of your main image so far, take the overwhelming yellowish color (#FAF4E1) and put a brush around it. Unless you're good at making your own, this will involve a lot of trial and error with other people's. I think I wound up butchering the hell out of one of inxsomniax's.
(The first is inverted so you can see it properly.)
05: For the purpose of explaining this more easily, we're gonna deal with text first. Lay down two bars where you want it to be using the draw tool -- you can't really see the bottom one yet, but that's because I, personally, did the brushwork first.
06: Text it up, baby. "Falling in love" is in New Dr. Yoshiabibi, size 9, somewhere around a kerning of 75, and "is hard on the knees" is in Arial Black, size 5, no kerning and all caps.
(Lyrics from the Aerosmith song "Falling In Love (Is Hard on the Knees)." I feel your surprise.)
07. Brush time! Go wild. Put some over the text bars, put some under it, use different colors, mirror and flip and erase and resize until you don't recognize how they looked before you sunk in your claws. Don't be afraid to experiment. I think I used some of inxsomniax's again, along with my_wonderful and maybe miggy and some scribbles of my own.
08. That empty space on the left bothers me. I'm gonna use my paintbrush (size 7, 100% hardness) in #CCB795 to make a little rectangle.
09. And then I'll crop a bit of House and Wilson's faces, size it down, and stick three copies of it right there.
10. Viola. Congratulate yourself on creating an icon that proclaims the gayness between two middle-aged doctors!
Feel free to share any icons you've made using this tutorial, please just don't copy it directly. ♥
01. Create a new 100x100 canvas and paste on your image. Mine, I think, was 95x70 or thereabouts, and you can't see all of it yet because the background is white. (But that'll be fixed later.)
02. Duplicate it, sharpen it, desaturate it (I also used -29 on lightness, but I'm a freak with odd preferences) and set it on screen. Then duplicate that screened layer twice more to make it nice and bright.
03. Now, here's the easiest colorizing tutorial you've ever read. Seriously. Check this shit out:
<- burn, 20%
<- soft light, 37%
<- darken, 38%
... Ta da!
04: Now, to do away with the sharp edges of your main image so far, take the overwhelming yellowish color (#FAF4E1) and put a brush around it. Unless you're good at making your own, this will involve a lot of trial and error with other people's. I think I wound up butchering the hell out of one of inxsomniax's.
(The first is inverted so you can see it properly.)
05: For the purpose of explaining this more easily, we're gonna deal with text first. Lay down two bars where you want it to be using the draw tool -- you can't really see the bottom one yet, but that's because I, personally, did the brushwork first.
06: Text it up, baby. "Falling in love" is in New Dr. Yoshiabibi, size 9, somewhere around a kerning of 75, and "is hard on the knees" is in Arial Black, size 5, no kerning and all caps.
(Lyrics from the Aerosmith song "Falling In Love (Is Hard on the Knees)." I feel your surprise.)
07. Brush time! Go wild. Put some over the text bars, put some under it, use different colors, mirror and flip and erase and resize until you don't recognize how they looked before you sunk in your claws. Don't be afraid to experiment. I think I used some of inxsomniax's again, along with my_wonderful and maybe miggy and some scribbles of my own.
08. That empty space on the left bothers me. I'm gonna use my paintbrush (size 7, 100% hardness) in #CCB795 to make a little rectangle.
09. And then I'll crop a bit of House and Wilson's faces, size it down, and stick three copies of it right there.
10. Viola. Congratulate yourself on creating an icon that proclaims the gayness between two middle-aged doctors!
Feel free to share any icons you've made using this tutorial, please just don't copy it directly. ♥