Iconing with Brookelle Bones

Photoshop Tutorials

Tutorial

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1. Open up your picture. Feel free to grab mine or use your own.

2. Crop it to 100x100 pixelz.

3. This depends on your picture. I felt like it needed to pop, so I sharpened it by going Filter >> Sharpen >> Sharpen.

4. Duplicate your image by hitting ctrl + J. Set that layer to Soft Light @ 100%, ch'yeah.

5. Duplicate the image again. Put this layer above the Soft Light one and set it to Screen @ 25%.

6. I wanted to make her dress pop, so I went Layer >> New Adjustment Layer >> Selective Color and upped the Yellow and Neutrals. This also gave her face a little more color.
Yellow:
-45 / 24 / 43 / 40
Neutrals:
-6 / -6 / 9 / 5

7. Take the following texture by parkbench @ LJ.com and add it to your icon. Set it to Multiply @ 100%. I erased the bits covering Brookelle.

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And that's all there is to it.
Other examples:

[the last one I changed slightly. I duplicated the selective color layer and set the screen layer to 46%. I didn't sharpen this one either.]

Tutorial Comments

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done!! thanx!!

By falconcyborg on May 8, 2009 7:38 am

Love the way the icons are when they are done

By SilentgirlDk on Feb 16, 2009 10:58 am

:D I like it, might use this tutorial.

By patternhouses on Feb 13, 2009 7:56 pm

love itt. :]]
will def have to try it!

By cyaattheswingset on Jan 7, 2009 1:04 pm

I hope you're not a JOCKER. Because I found the EXACT same tutorial here:
http://community.livejo urnal.com/icon_tutorial/100293 38.html#cutid1

This tutorial on LJ was posted on different days? Hmmm.

By creole on Jan 2, 2009 7:47 pm

=0 lovely effect.

By creole on Jan 2, 2009 6:31 pm