| Trolltorial #1: (If you're easily offended, this tut isn't for you. Fair warning. I like to ... spice my stuff up, or so you might be able to say) How to turn  into  So, I'mma skip the whole cropping part of this image, cause if you don't know how to crop an image, you probably should be learning photoshop 101 rather than how to make pretty icons. Prioritize that before the shiny jpegs that everyone loves. Okay, so I'm sure by now, if you're reading this tutorial, you're sick of having shitty cropped icons with no effect, right? Cause those are boring, who would like them anyways (no offense to those of you who crop images and rescale and call your shit icons without even using an effect :V). Anyways onto step one: First, duplicate your main image layer and set the top image layer to soft light. Should look like this:  I guess that's kinda cool, kinda dramatic on the lighting... But it's boring as shit. Let's mix our shit up by making it a bit glowy. Go up to filter and select gaussian blur. Crank the blur up to about 4.5ish-7.0ish and hit okay. Now we look kinda glowy like this:  Glowy is cool but it lacks interestingness... and most of all, depth So lets go to selective color (the halfblack/halfwhite circle at the bottom of the layers palette, click it to bring up these options) Apply these settings on the Relative Method: REDS: C -13 M +10 Y +5 K -21 NEUTRALS: C -19 M +38 Y +16 K 0 You get this:  So yeah, we're lookin pretty glowy about now, but HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT FUCKING FAGBALLS GAY WTF WE ARE NOT FUCKING GLOWY ENOUGH. So let us be even MORE glowy Add a brightness/contrast layer, found in the same damn circle thing Your settings should be: B +9 C +12 And now you are looking pretty rad and glowy, like so:  BUT NOT ENOUGH, WE NEED COLOR BALANCE. DO ANOTHER LAYER, LIKE SO: Preserve luminosity (check this if you didn't) Ignore shadows and midtones, we're only doing highlights: C/R 0 M/G +7 Y/B -24 Now we look rad  However we need a motherfucking texture in this shit. Here ya go  Texture is by Bombay101 over at Deviantart. Copy the texture onto your clipboard and paste it into your icon and set the layer blending mode to screen. Looking epic amirite?  Oh wait there is this ugly motherfucking line on Shou's face. Not epic. Go over to your eraser tool. Adjust the thing to about 18 px or so in size and set it at a hardness of 0. Then lower the opacity of the eraser to about 35. Now, QUICKLY ERASE THE LINE BEFORE SHE DIES. Also, if needed, erase a small bit of te texture around her face. So you can actually see it. We're done now, you should end up with this: |
nuggerJun 21, 2010 1:31 AM
| Reading this makes me want to try it, like right now. Too bad I currently have no time for it. *adds to to-do list* And no offense taken. // Nice tutorial. |
| lol so glowy.... ill try this out sometime |
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| lol my attempt (little too glowy):  |
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StellarCombo69 said: BUT I LOVE GLOWY. Nicely done by the way. The colors really work for the pic. lol but i cant see her facial features well xD |
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| Because of all the epic WHOOSHHHHHFIREHOT goin on *_* |
Preci said: Because of all the epic WHOOSHHHHHFIREHOT goin on *_* i think its actually just brush strokes |
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Before  and after  I'm happy with the glowness, but I probably should have left out the doll and focused on Mayuko's face. I also got confused when it came to the textures part (Do I have textures, where's my clipboard, should I retake Photoshop 101, why the FUCK do I only have Photoshop 7 and not CS), so I didn't add a texture. Edit: I did a larger version. |
BlueYoshiJun 21, 2010 6:29 PM
| so how in the hell do you add textures to ps!? |
Jmac said: so how in the hell do you add textures to ps!? just drag the texture on top of the image u want it on, then adjust the blending options |
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Kana-tan said: Jmac said: so how in the hell do you add textures to ps!? just drag the texture on top of the image u want it on, then adjust the blending options so i drag a texture from outside of ps into ps? i was talking about installing new textures with the already presets into ps. |
Jmac said: Kana-tan said: Jmac said: so how in the hell do you add textures to ps!? just drag the texture on top of the image u want it on, then adjust the blending options so i drag a texture from outside of ps into ps? i was talking about installing new textures with the already presets into ps. do you mean patterns? |
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