THIS is seriously amazing! I had so much fun reading this and feel a lot smarter already. I can't wait to try out that trippy effect and the coloring, especially of the first icon. I love how the face is still so clear and I always wondered how to do that. :) So, thank you for the tutorials!
Thanks for summarizing the effect again at the end, that is very helpful.
p.s.: I like moving things with the arrow keys, because my touchpad is fiddly. It turns out it's much easier, so now I do that all the time. (And it's of course faster than with the menu and dialog.) If you hold the Shift key while using the arrow keys, it will move in larger intervals. I think 10 pixels each step?
Thank you! ♥ To create a clipping mask you need to right click on the layer and select Create Clipping Mask. The layer you turn into a clipping mask will affect only its "target" layer, that is, the layer directly below the clipping mask layer in the layer palette. Look at the first layer palette: you can tell the clipping mask layers from the others because they have a small arrow pointing down just on their left ("Livello 3", "Colore Riempimento 1"). Hope that helps!
Whoa, so many great tips in here! THOUSAND THANKS FOR DOING THIS TUTORIAL and I'm very sorry for the late comment, I needed a break from lj and haven't had any iconing mojo at all lately but now that I read all of this I kinda feel like trying again. There are clearly lots of cool things still to explore in Photoshop, like that awesome texture-on-texture clipping mask trickery. And of course, the trippy effect, your way of doing it is pretty damn ingenious. It's neat how simple it actually is, but finding the right caps and making it all work still sound challenging, and I love your idea of using Groups. I only use them to organize my layers, to make the psds look cleasner, but I didn't know you could set an entire group on a setting other than Normal. Awesome! Thanks again, this was a really awesome read and everything was well explained :)
Don't worry about that, I'm just glad it was interesting to read and perhaps even inspiring! ♥ And you're the best at naming tricks, clearly! Texture-on-texture clipping mask trickery? Brilliant, I wish I came up with that for this tut! :D Hope you'll find a way to incorporate the trippy effect into your icons, it should work nicely with your bold style!
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So, thank you for the tutorials!
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Thanks for summarizing the effect again at the end, that is very helpful.
p.s.: I like moving things with the arrow keys, because my touchpad is fiddly. It turns out it's much easier, so now I do that all the time. (And it's of course faster than with the menu and dialog.) If you hold the Shift key while using the arrow keys, it will move in larger intervals. I think 10 pixels each step?
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To create a clipping mask you need to right click on the layer and select Create Clipping Mask. The layer you turn into a clipping mask will affect only its "target" layer, that is, the layer directly below the clipping mask layer in the layer palette.
Look at the first layer palette: you can tell the clipping mask layers from the others because they have a small arrow pointing down just on their left ("Livello 3", "Colore Riempimento 1"). Hope that helps!
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And you're the best at naming tricks, clearly! Texture-on-texture clipping mask trickery? Brilliant, I wish I came up with that for this tut! :D
Hope you'll find a way to incorporate the trippy effect into your icons, it should work nicely with your bold style!
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