OOUTM icon tutorial (PS 7)

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PS 7 Tutorial. Should translate pretty easily to other programs. Screencap was taken from my Once Upon a Time in Mexico dvd

Go from
  to 
  in a few easy steps

First select the picture that you want to use for your base. I picked this on. When I cropped it, I cropped it so that the height is 100, the width, you don’t want to be 100.. Mine was 100x83


I duplicated it twice, setting the layer above the base to Screen 58% and the layer above that to Soft Light 100% Sharpen if needed.


  Exclusion 100%


Soft Light 100%


Soft Light 100%



Now I duplicated the base again and brought it up to the top, set it to Soft Light at 100% and desaturated it.

I duplicate it again setting it to Screen at 40% and desaturate

Duplicate again and set it to Multiply at 85% and also desaturate.

Merge.


Now make a new 100x100 file with a white background and paste you picture on it.


(shown with border so you can see the edges)

I decided that my picture took up too much of the white base so I took the rectangular marquee tool and cut off the right side of my picture.



 I take this brush from Bruno’s Honeypot Vintage Grunge collection http://www.ancient-secret.de/brushes.html In black I make a line along the edge of the picture.



Next I make a new layer and add my text. I wrote ‘gunslinger’ in Print Clearly at 22pt. I rotated it 90 degrees CW and placed it along the right edge of the picture. I duplicate that layer.


Next I took the brush that I used earlier and made a line above my text.


Then above that I just added some tiny text and I was all done :)