Extending Caps Tutorial
Jammer is a Sad Panda.
(for auspank)
Another tutorial on extending caps is here. It's easier cap extension and only deals with vertical lines to extend.
This is a tutorial for if you need to extend the cap in your icon but there are diagonal lines and you need the extension to follow the same vanishing point as the rest of the icon.
Step 1:
Start with the cap the size you want it, find it's place and all that fun stuff. I already did all my coloring and sharpening prior to this.
Step2:
Then copy and paste the same cap onto your canvas, but don't reduce it as much as the previous one. For this one, I reduced it to the height of the icon, and adjusted the width accordingly. (it was reduced to about 34% in this case, as opposed to the first one that was reduced to about 22%) It's going to vary depending on the size of your cap or whatever.
So now that layer is on top of your smaller one, but you need to move it under the smaller one:
Then I take that bottom layer and move it up and over to the right to make the lines...line up:
Then you end up with some funky horizontal lines, so what you need to do is a combo of smudging and erasing depending. Sometimes when you erase the top layer to much you end up getting to a part of the bottom layer that you don't want to see. hence the smudge. If you take the bottom layer and you smudge up a little bit, and then erease the top layer, the colors blend very nice. Really, trial and error. If you start to erase the top layer and you see jammers foot from the bottom layer, which you don't want...you can smudge it out of the bottom layer into the part that is covered by the top. (I think that last part was me just...repeating myself. Whatever.
I got this:
Step 3
Select the top layer and link it to the bottom and go to Layer > Merge Linked
I tend to merge instead of flatten, to leave the option open of change the crop around.
So then take that merged layer and duplicate it. Take the bottom layer and then move it so that your lines are still along the same vanishing point
then just do the same smudge/erase action you did before and BLAM!
and then you can kinda use the blur tool at a small setting to smooth it out just a bit more:
The end.
You can always add light and grungy textures if you need to cover up a blemish. Just remember you tend to see them more than anyone that would just glance at the icon in passing.
(for auspank)
Another tutorial on extending caps is here. It's easier cap extension and only deals with vertical lines to extend.
This is a tutorial for if you need to extend the cap in your icon but there are diagonal lines and you need the extension to follow the same vanishing point as the rest of the icon.
Step 1:
Start with the cap the size you want it, find it's place and all that fun stuff. I already did all my coloring and sharpening prior to this.
Step2:
Then copy and paste the same cap onto your canvas, but don't reduce it as much as the previous one. For this one, I reduced it to the height of the icon, and adjusted the width accordingly. (it was reduced to about 34% in this case, as opposed to the first one that was reduced to about 22%) It's going to vary depending on the size of your cap or whatever.
So now that layer is on top of your smaller one, but you need to move it under the smaller one:
Then I take that bottom layer and move it up and over to the right to make the lines...line up:
Then you end up with some funky horizontal lines, so what you need to do is a combo of smudging and erasing depending. Sometimes when you erase the top layer to much you end up getting to a part of the bottom layer that you don't want to see. hence the smudge. If you take the bottom layer and you smudge up a little bit, and then erease the top layer, the colors blend very nice. Really, trial and error. If you start to erase the top layer and you see jammers foot from the bottom layer, which you don't want...you can smudge it out of the bottom layer into the part that is covered by the top. (I think that last part was me just...repeating myself. Whatever.
I got this:
Step 3
Select the top layer and link it to the bottom and go to Layer > Merge Linked
I tend to merge instead of flatten, to leave the option open of change the crop around.
So then take that merged layer and duplicate it. Take the bottom layer and then move it so that your lines are still along the same vanishing point
then just do the same smudge/erase action you did before and BLAM!
and then you can kinda use the blur tool at a small setting to smooth it out just a bit more:
The end.
You can always add light and grungy textures if you need to cover up a blemish. Just remember you tend to see them more than anyone that would just glance at the icon in passing.