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[green_queen]

Welcome to Icon Tutorial 2, where we turn this gorgeous Yunjin Kim picture into this:


I would like to point out that I originally used a tutorial from here that appears to have vanished.

I started with this:



Then I cropped it and did step 1 from my last tutorial (duplicated three times, sharpened each of the new layers and set them to multiply, screen and soft light, respectively):



This was too light for my liking so I lowered the opacity on the screen layer to 53%:



I also added a soft light layer to the top, then desaturated that and the multiply layer to get this:



I didn't like the blotchiness on her face so I merged all the layers and used the blur tool CAREFULLY on her face and neck:



Then I used this brush (again I don't know who made it) in the colour F1F2D0:



and flipped it so I got this:



I then added text in font 18th Century and colour 1A2D2D:


(the >>> bits you'll have to experiment with yourself, every icon looks different)

Then I used this _joni brush:



in the same colour as the font along the bottom and set it to 71% to get this:



I added this chouchoune tiny text brush (my FAVOURITE):



along the bottom, in the same colour again:



then I took this light texture from colorfilter:



I took a colour from the wallpaper and set it to colour over the icon, then merged the layers:



I copy/pasted this on to my icon and set it to lighten:



Second icon done! On to the third.
Green Queen

Comments

[kilted.livejournal.com]

This is so great of you to do for us!!!
*saves*

[partitioning.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful! I was wondering if you'd be interested in yjk_stillness?

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I think I'm already a member of enough icontests that I'm neglecting, sorry.

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

Perfect! Adding these to my memories - and thank you so much. *S*

BTW... when you crop, I assume you also re-size? Do you re-size to 100 x 100? In other words, do you do all your work at the final resolution/size of the icon?

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do resize, and on almost all icons I do all my work when it's at 100x100. Otherwise how do you know if it's going to work? Also, all my brushes, bases etc. are at 100x100 pixels.

If you crop using Constrained Aspect Ratio then you get a square crop every time, which is useful. It's in the grey bar up the top under "style".

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

Many thanks! *G*

[little---hobbit.livejournal.com]

Antother great one, thank you!

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I hope you can use it :)

[eternalglory.livejournal.com]

Adding to my memories, thanks!

[rebelforgod2.livejournal.com]

Thank you this is beautiful

Abby

[sleeping-days.livejournal.com]

I love your tutorials...thanks :o)

[zonikita.livejournal.com]

So gorgeous! Just had to try it:

(http://pics.livejournal.com/zonikita/pic/001pz6gg/) (http://pics.livejournal.com/zonikita/pic/001q0pzd/)

Sorry for spaming your inbox. Am done now.