Colortone ([info]colortone) wrote,
@ 2005-10-04 00:32:00
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Icon Tutorial for PS 7

Another icon tutorial. This one is fairly simple, really. If I can do it, anyone can. We'll be making this:




First, we start with our image. I took the official render of Dante from Devil May Cry 3, and cropped it down to 39x40 px, and pasted it onto a 100x100 px white background. It's probably best to work with an image with similar lighting for this tutorial. :D

Then, I duplicated the layer three times, and positioned them where I wanted them, in this case a line across the white background. Then, I merged the three pictures of Dante (click on the top image layer and hit Shift + E twice). And I got this.

Then, I duplicated the layer with the multiple Dantes, desaturated it, and set it to soft light.

Duplicated the desaturated soft light layer. Here, depending on how dark your image is, you may wish to play around with the opacity a bit, so it doesn't get too light or too dark.

Adding a new layer on top of it all, I used my paintbucket tool and floodfilled the area with #011637, brought the opacity down to 40%, and then set the layer to exclusion. I love that magical blue exclusion layer. :3

And, now, you should have something like this.

Then I added this gradient of mine, spanning from #E7E6E4 to #BACACF, so that only a small bit of the blue showed, and set the layer to multiply.

And now you should have something like this. :3

Then, I used a font called Saraband Initials, set at 18 pt in #810B1B, with a setting of sharp, and typed a big ol' D.

And, in 6 pt, Times New Roman, with a kerning of 600, I typed out A N T E, and made my 'Dante'. Same color as the D, obviously.

And, last but not least, I used Times New Roman, 1 pt, with a kerning of 600 set at sharp, to make some tiny text, just for the hey of it. And that's it, you're totally done. Simple as pie, and it looks pretty neat.





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[info]twilight_kitty
2005-10-04 04:41 am UTC (link)
Cool tutorial - the icon is very simple and pretty. :) Memoried, thanks!

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[info]ultra_butterfly
2005-10-04 05:42 am UTC (link)
Very very nice! I love the colours you used.

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[info]milkfed
2005-10-04 06:05 am UTC (link)
this is a very nice tutorial; as a PS newbie i must ask: what is kerning ?

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[info]necromance
2005-10-04 06:22 am UTC (link)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/colortone/8524.html?thread=325708#t325708

That should tell you what you need to know.

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[info]nadinecoyle_
2005-10-04 06:44 am UTC (link)
Thanks, it was a really easy tutorial to follow and I got this:

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[info]yggdrasill
2005-10-04 07:21 am UTC (link)
Thanks for the awesome tutorial! I got this:

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[info]angelikk
2005-10-04 08:29 am UTC (link)
Very cool tut...and I love the font...

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[info]lil_cdawg
2005-10-04 08:37 am UTC (link)
Great tutorial; really useful.

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[info]heraroja
2005-10-04 11:11 am UTC (link)
Excellent tutorial, and your journal is a veritable treasure trove of goodness so I'm friending you too :)
I'm downloading the scribble brushes too btw, ta.

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[info]mizugazipan
2005-10-04 03:51 pm UTC (link)
Love! ;-; I'll try this out right away!

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[info]pink_my_icons
2005-10-04 04:46 pm UTC (link)
wkd tut. :D thanks. ;)

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[info]mizugazipan
2005-10-04 06:08 pm UTC (link)
wee!

the resized manga looks fractured, but otherwise I love the results. ^^ I'll be building a credit¬es section to my [info]smoon100 challenge, and a link to this tutorial will go up there. Thank you!

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[info]srkcrazy
2005-10-04 10:19 pm UTC (link)
I Like! Thanks!

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[info]risha666
2005-10-04 10:39 pm UTC (link)
-> "House of 1000 Corpses"

thank you very much!

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[info]necromance
2005-10-04 11:18 pm UTC (link)
Guh, you officially rock, for that movie was awesome. /Rob Zombie Geek

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(no subject) - [info]risha666, 2005-10-05 10:41 am UTC

[info]itsmyshit
2005-10-05 12:05 am UTC (link)
<3

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[info]queer_faerie
2005-10-05 01:12 am UTC (link)
vnice, memorizin'

here's what i got...

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

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[info]__songcry
2005-10-05 01:41 am UTC (link)
Awesome tutorial.

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

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[info]necromance
2005-10-06 10:20 pm UTC (link)
Aw, that is a pretty Tidus icon. @.@ I love seeing how everyone modified the tut. :D

And the icon you used to post has me in stitches. I have so much *heart* for Barret.

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[info]amazonagent
2005-10-05 02:54 am UTC (link)
Awesome tut! Memorized! Thank you;)

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[info]takki
2005-10-05 02:20 pm UTC (link)
Yay, more Dante XD;;. I'll show you mind when it expires in teh icontest I submitted it to (Don't worry, I modified it enough for it not to look THAT much like yours xD)

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[info]coming_staying
2005-10-08 10:29 pm UTC (link)
I'm new to ps7, well, ps in general, and I was wondering how to I paste it to the white background? How do I even get a white backgroud?

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[info]necromance
2005-10-09 07:08 pm UTC (link)
[info]icon_tutorial

Check the memories. I THINK there's a tutorial for this, and a few other basic things.

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[info]aylaranzz
2005-10-09 06:44 pm UTC (link)
Lovely tut. Where can I find Saraband Initials?

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[info]necromance
2005-10-09 07:10 pm UTC (link)
http://dafont.com/en/font.php?file=saraband

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[info]lunglock
2005-10-12 12:41 pm UTC (link)
Great tutorial! Thanks =D

Here's what I made: Image hosted by Photobucket.com

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[info]_keita
2005-10-12 01:29 pm UTC (link)
awesome tut !!!
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[info]msninja
2005-10-19 03:05 am UTC (link)
This tutorial was very helpful ^_^ I made this icon with it: Image hosted by Photobucket.com

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[info]mwaxox
2006-06-03 07:41 pm UTC (link)
wow thats great

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[info]blueprinting
2005-11-01 04:21 pm UTC (link)
+ memorized, thank you so much! i use psp9 but it was easy translatable (is that correct english? i don't know, haha.) this is what i made with help from the tutorial:

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[info]my_sims_reality
2005-11-13 02:11 am UTC (link)
Thanks for a great tutorial! My humble efforts with PSP9 resulted in the icon I'm using now. :D

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