Icon Tutorial 2

[fragilecat]

This tutorial is for the following icon I made from this pic




1. first I started with making a background for the icon


This is the base layer normal 100%


add this as a new layer above soft light 50%


and another layer with this texture to exclusion 50%

creat a new layer and flood it with black, set the layer to color 60%

you should now have this

2. Now we have to work with our pic . Cut the kissing Nate & Maddie out with the rope/lasso(Freehand)... be sure to get a soft edge (use antialias and feather=1) and then resize it to fit in the icon.  I got this(<- it's the .psp file) from the cutting out


(the original layer had a transparent background)


you should now have this

4. in this step we creat two new layers: lets add some nice light textures

4.1
flip it one time and set the layer to screen

4.2
set it to screen aswell

Where the lights go over the faces or disturb the pic just ereas it. The icon now looks like this



5. the background is a bit to colorless compared to the pic, so I added some gradients. Every gradient is a new layer:

5.1
  exclusion 100%

5.2
  soft light 100%

5.3
  soft light 100%

5.4
  soft light 100%

now dublicate the layer with nate & maddie and drag it on top of all layers, set it to soft light 100%
you should now have something like this



6. now I greated a new layer and flooded it with white, than I used a brush (black) on it so it looked like this (only black and white colors)


set it to lighten 100%

and thats it, the icon is finished



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