River Phoenix tutorial.
Icon tutorial beneath the cut!
Please note that not every picture/screencap will look like this; sometimes, these steps might make it look over-saturated, or shadowy, or just plain weird. Because of this, it’s important to be aware of what kind of image you’re using and remember that this isn’t a step-by-step universal icon guide. This was made on Paintshop Pro version 7.0 but is probably easily translatable to later versions and/or other painting programs such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP.
So here is the base: a 100 x 100 screencap of River Phoenix, a man with a beautiful soul who left us much too soon.
Before I did anything, I sharpened my image twice (feel free to sharpen your image to your heart's content). Then I duplicated the base layer once and set the blend mode to screen and merged 'em to make a new base layer; no more dark River! Yay! Adorable, huh? =)
NOT SHOWN:: I then duplicated the [new] base twice. The second layer (first from bottom) was desaturated and the blend mode set to Screen. The third layer (second from bottom) was set to Soft Light.
I then made a new raster layer. I filled it with #0a0b34 and set the blend mode to Exclusion at 100%.
Another new raster layer, again, and I filled it with #efe1c1 at Overlay, 28%.
I made a new raster layer, again, and filled it with #d5d6f9, at Burn, 100%.
I made a new raster layer -- this will be the last one, I promise! -- and filled it with #efe1c1 (again), this time at Multiply, 100%.
And...done! Merge! (For now, anyway! Here is where I might add gradients and/or text or masks or whatever!)
Any questions? Please don’t hesitate to ask. Also, if you would like to use the icon, feel free, just remember to credit either nemesis_icons or lokienvy, and to NOT hotlink any of these images!
Please note that not every picture/screencap will look like this; sometimes, these steps might make it look over-saturated, or shadowy, or just plain weird. Because of this, it’s important to be aware of what kind of image you’re using and remember that this isn’t a step-by-step universal icon guide. This was made on Paintshop Pro version 7.0 but is probably easily translatable to later versions and/or other painting programs such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP.
So here is the base: a 100 x 100 screencap of River Phoenix, a man with a beautiful soul who left us much too soon.
Before I did anything, I sharpened my image twice (feel free to sharpen your image to your heart's content). Then I duplicated the base layer once and set the blend mode to screen and merged 'em to make a new base layer; no more dark River! Yay! Adorable, huh? =)
NOT SHOWN:: I then duplicated the [new] base twice. The second layer (first from bottom) was desaturated and the blend mode set to Screen. The third layer (second from bottom) was set to Soft Light.
I then made a new raster layer. I filled it with #0a0b34 and set the blend mode to Exclusion at 100%.
Another new raster layer, again, and I filled it with #efe1c1 at Overlay, 28%.
I made a new raster layer, again, and filled it with #d5d6f9, at Burn, 100%.
I made a new raster layer -- this will be the last one, I promise! -- and filled it with #efe1c1 (again), this time at Multiply, 100%.
And...done! Merge! (For now, anyway! Here is where I might add gradients and/or text or masks or whatever!)
Any questions? Please don’t hesitate to ask. Also, if you would like to use the icon, feel free, just remember to credit either nemesis_icons or lokienvy, and to NOT hotlink any of these images!