black&white icon tutorial

Open up your picture, crop, resize, sharpen/smoothen if needed. Then make it black and white (set foreground color to #2b2b2b and background color #ffffff, and make a gradient map). Now you should have a smooth black&white coloring:



If your picture is dark, duplicate it and set to screen.

Now take this texture:



and set it to darken 100%:



Not really a big difference in this picture. :D Now take this texture



and set it to lighten and tweak the opacity to your liking:



Creates those light spots. :) Next take this texture:



and set to screen 100%:



Then this texture:



set to screen 100%:



Then this texture:



set to multiply ~80%:



And youre done :) And here is the outcome with colors:



&some examples:

(lol i love this britney one! :D)

i don't know who made those textures, just found em on my computer. if you know who has made them please tell me so i can credit :)

non of the thumbnail pictures can enlarge when i click on them :(

Cool. (=

Author	fiercest
Submitted on	Mar 18, 2010
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Reviewer	manny-the-dino
Approved on	Mar 18, 2010

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