Tutorial for Icon Making

[creadigol_lili]

Here's a tutorial for you guys about making icons, this is also a very subjective area, but I'll just share what I know and maybe get some of you guys started making epic LOM iconage.
The program I'm using is of course Photoshop CS2

Comments

[lozenger8]

Hey, this was great, thank you :D

I try to go by the rule of thirds when I crop, but, my favourite icons often don't use that at all. It's hard to do when you only have 100 pixels to work with.

[dorsetgirl]

This is great, thank you. I'm fairly happy with my cropping (I cropped one of those wonderful blue-background pics of Phil for a section of my desktop, and later found that the same pic has been cropped identically on his website!) but I've never understood how people get their colours so "colourful". Also, I've never used textures apart from using my own sea/beach/sky pics to lift plain backgrounds on posters etc, so that was all new to me and very interesting.

You explanations are beautifully clear, and I'll definitely be trying out these ideas.

[theanonsisters]

I love the colouring part, excellent

[hyarrowen]

Anything beyond cropping was a complete mystery to me, but this makes it all very clear. Many thanks.