82. Two Tutorials
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I actually started with the background for this one. Make a canvas of colour 284764, add a new layer of colour 464646 and set to screen at 7.1
opacity.
Take this texture by softstarless, desaturate and set to screen, then merge the visible layers to get this:
Take this screencap in a new image (Edit + Paste as New Image) and cut out Daenerys. I normally do this by using the Free Select (lasso) tool to get rid of the bulk of the background, then I use a small eraser brush to go around Daenerys herself. Resize the layer to the canvas size (100px in this case, because the background texture was 100px), sharpening etc. on the way, then paste as a new layer onto the background texture:
Normally I would merge the two layers here, but I didn't with this icon because I wanted to edit Daenerys separately to the background for a bit longer.
Duplicate the Daenerys layer and set to screen at 24.7 opacity:
Duplicate the desaturated softstarless texture and bring it as a new layer to the top, set to screen 100 opacity. Because it was a bit too light on her skin I erased the layer there:
Now create a new layer from visible. Duplicate this and set to soft light at 40.8 opacity, increase
saturation of the soft light layer slightly:
Create new layer from visible, increase saturation:
At this point I wanted to alter the saturation of her face differently to the rest of the icon. I thought that her skin was saturated enough, but the blues could be more vivid. So made a new layer from visible, erased the parts of her skin, and then increased saturation:
More slight increase of the saturation:
Wanted a bit more shadow, so I duplicated the layer and adjusted the curves:
I thought her skin was a little over-saturated here so I duplicated the visible layer, erased everything but her skin, and lowered the saturation of that slightly:
Created new layer from visible, adjusted overall saturation just a little:
Her arm was a little light so I duplicated the layer, erased all but her arm, then used curves to darken it a bit:
Final new layer from visible, and we’re done!
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Starting with this cap, crop and resize to 100px:
I don't have the exact setting saved, but here I just altered the saturation and curves a bit:
Duplicate the layer and set to screen, erase the background leaving only Daenerys in the screen layer. Then create new layer from visible (I tend to do this after every step):
Her face looks rather over-saturated, so duplicate the layer and erase everything not her face and lower the saturation a bit:
I wanted to even out the shadows on her face a bit, so I duplicated the visible layer, erased everything not her face, and adjusted curves:
Create new layer, adjust curves just a little bit:
New layer, set to Soft Light, 100% opacity:
Text layer, Cordia New, white, 21pt, -14.00 spacing between lines, 2.0 spacing between letters, set to Dodge at 52.2 opacity:
Take this texture by innocent_lexys (most of the textures I use are by her), erase almost all of it with a large eraser brush except the right-hand corner and a bit at the bottom, set to screen at opacity 74.9:
Take this texture by lemonpunch, resize to 110x100px, flip horizontally and shift left a bit (so the right hand side of the texture is just left of the ‘n’ in ‘mine’), set to screen and erase the bit on her face:
New layer from visible, adjust curves ever so slightly. New layer from visible, and we're done!
My tutorials are intended to demonstrate my icon-making process, and hopefully to help other icon makers - they are not here so anyone can copy my work, so please don't!
Ask The Maker 5.0 || My Thread
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I actually started with the background for this one. Make a canvas of colour 284764, add a new layer of colour 464646 and set to screen at 7.1
opacity.
Take this texture by softstarless, desaturate and set to screen, then merge the visible layers to get this:
Take this screencap in a new image (Edit + Paste as New Image) and cut out Daenerys. I normally do this by using the Free Select (lasso) tool to get rid of the bulk of the background, then I use a small eraser brush to go around Daenerys herself. Resize the layer to the canvas size (100px in this case, because the background texture was 100px), sharpening etc. on the way, then paste as a new layer onto the background texture:
Normally I would merge the two layers here, but I didn't with this icon because I wanted to edit Daenerys separately to the background for a bit longer.
Duplicate the Daenerys layer and set to screen at 24.7 opacity:
Duplicate the desaturated softstarless texture and bring it as a new layer to the top, set to screen 100 opacity. Because it was a bit too light on her skin I erased the layer there:
Now create a new layer from visible. Duplicate this and set to soft light at 40.8 opacity, increase
saturation of the soft light layer slightly:
Create new layer from visible, increase saturation:
At this point I wanted to alter the saturation of her face differently to the rest of the icon. I thought that her skin was saturated enough, but the blues could be more vivid. So made a new layer from visible, erased the parts of her skin, and then increased saturation:
More slight increase of the saturation:
Wanted a bit more shadow, so I duplicated the layer and adjusted the curves:
I thought her skin was a little over-saturated here so I duplicated the visible layer, erased everything but her skin, and lowered the saturation of that slightly:
Created new layer from visible, adjusted overall saturation just a little:
Her arm was a little light so I duplicated the layer, erased all but her arm, then used curves to darken it a bit:
Final new layer from visible, and we’re done!
>>>
Starting with this cap, crop and resize to 100px:
I don't have the exact setting saved, but here I just altered the saturation and curves a bit:
Duplicate the layer and set to screen, erase the background leaving only Daenerys in the screen layer. Then create new layer from visible (I tend to do this after every step):
Her face looks rather over-saturated, so duplicate the layer and erase everything not her face and lower the saturation a bit:
I wanted to even out the shadows on her face a bit, so I duplicated the visible layer, erased everything not her face, and adjusted curves:
Create new layer, adjust curves just a little bit:
New layer, set to Soft Light, 100% opacity:
Text layer, Cordia New, white, 21pt, -14.00 spacing between lines, 2.0 spacing between letters, set to Dodge at 52.2 opacity:
Take this texture by innocent_lexys (most of the textures I use are by her), erase almost all of it with a large eraser brush except the right-hand corner and a bit at the bottom, set to screen at opacity 74.9:
Take this texture by lemonpunch, resize to 110x100px, flip horizontally and shift left a bit (so the right hand side of the texture is just left of the ‘n’ in ‘mine’), set to screen and erase the bit on her face:
New layer from visible, adjust curves ever so slightly. New layer from visible, and we're done!
My tutorials are intended to demonstrate my icon-making process, and hopefully to help other icon makers - they are not here so anyone can copy my work, so please don't!
Ask The Maker 5.0 || My Thread