I don't feel extremly comfortable wiriting this tutorial, cause of the lack of credits. I lost my favuorites so I can't credit people whose are these textures or brushes. So if you own them, don't yell at me, just comment and I'll credit you. General credit
![](/stc/fck/editor/plugins/livejournal/userinfo.gif)
100x100_brushes - I belive I took some from here.
Uff..
Ok, lets start from this
![](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i53/xpaparazzigirl/tuts/03/1.gif)
to this
1. comment
2. credit
3. enjoy
1. From
this image I made my icon. I resized it and opened new file 100 px / 100 px and copied the image there. Sharp the image once. Use blur tool to blur their faces and isolde's hands a little.
2. Duplicate the image twice, destruate duplicated layers, first set to screen 70% and the second one to soft light 100%. Flattern them.
3. Use this gradient and set it to lighten 100%
![](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i53/xpaparazzigirl/tuts/03/3.gif)
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4. Next use the texture made by ??? and set it to screen 50%.
![](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i53/xpaparazzigirl/tuts/03/5.gif)
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5. Texture by
![](/stc/fck/editor/plugins/livejournal/userinfo.gif)
desiderio set to overlay 50%
![](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i53/xpaparazzigirl/tuts/03/7.gif)
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6. Another texture by
![](/stc/fck/editor/plugins/livejournal/userinfo.gif)
wonderland__ this time set to screen 100%
![](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i53/xpaparazzigirl/tuts/03/9.gif)
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7. Time for some brushes. I have no idea how made those but I'm sure they're from
![](/stc/fck/editor/plugins/livejournal/userinfo.gif)
100x100_brushesIf you have them on your completer, use drop shadow 100% opacity, 1px distance and size.
![](http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i53/xpaparazzigirl/tuts/03/11.gif)
- you don't see them, they're gif and white, so just copy the image and paste into your image. And that's it.