Tutorials and Icon help

[Amir]

Thanks Amir

A while back you said you were going to do a tutorial on how to change eye/lip colour, are you still going to do it? I'd love to know how.

Also, sorry to be a pain but I can't find Reporter 2 anywhere for free, do you have a link?

Yepp sure. I'll still do. I shall start it today.

[100%me]

Can someone to a tutorial for using layers? I dont have a clue how to change the background of a picture.

Thanks xx

[.Cat.]

Someone requested how I made the HSM sig, so I wrote up a similar tut.

How to make this:

The Blending

I think I wrote a tutorial on how to blend a few pages back (pg 4 I think), but i'll give you a quick sum of how to blend here. I'm writing this as though you're using 2 pictures.

First off, you need the pictures. To make the job easier, use pictures that are similar, e.g. same background, otherwise you may find it looks a bit..err.

I'm using a few Hilary Duff pictures (typical).

First we open up a canvas (Ctrl + N), and make it big enough so all our pictures can fit on it. Overlap them.

Now the blending! We select our "Lasso tool"

Now the lasso tool bar appears at the top!

See the part that says "Feather"? Enter in about 2 or 3 in that. Feathering makes the blend look better (not all the time but mostly). You can leave it at 0, or 1 if you want.

Now, we slowly start you draw around the selected picture, i.e. the one overlapping the over, like this:

Then I press "Delete" on my key-board.

I keep cutting around until I end up with this:

And thats the blending!

Merge all.

Effects

Now we duplicate our image twice, and set the first to softlight. Then the second, i.e. the one at the top, we go to Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur, and set the px box thing to 2.0. Click ok, and set the layer to "Overlay". Duplicate base once more, drag to top, go to Filter> Sharpen>Sharpen. Leave layer at Normal, but set opacity to 20. Merge.

Mine now:

I then added this gradient, that came with the program:

And set it to Lighten, but because it was covering most of Hilary's face now, I then transformed it by going Ctrl + T and expanding it (just press Ctrl + T and you'll see what I mean!).

I set the opacity to 88%

Now for an effective look, I merged all, and then made a new layer. I added a brush (splatter brushes work best..text brushes won't be as effective), and set it to Overlay (you could try Softlight, then duplicate it..do what you wish). Then made a new layer and added a text brush (thanks to Dora from Zashley online), but left it at Normal.

Then, just so the right corner wasn't lonely I added Hilary's name in JaneAusten.

My finished result:

Please do not copy exactly. Also try using different gradients e.t.c. ;)

I also made this, using the same tutorial:

[aejdude]

Thanks Cat.

You are so talented!

[.Cat.]

Thanks Aaron!

[-Emily-]

I agree with Aaron! So cool!

[Liz]

I found this site http://fire-rag.livejournal.com/28010.html it shows heaps of diffrent icon tutorials, I found it really useful.

Thanks for the link. I found it very helpful.

[Amir]

Yay! I did a proper blend all thanks to you teaching me how.

Liz, or anyone else, if you want good tutorials go to http://community.livejournal.com/icon_tutorial/4098633.html

[.Cat.]

Heaps of people have been asking for one, so here it is. I'm not going to do it very detailed, but if you're stuck, just say.

(the images were a bit rushed)

Original:

After I colored it:

You can still do the same with a colored picture (as the original).

Ok, get a circle brush, make a new layer, and pick what part you're wanting to color at the moment. Say you're wanting to color the dress, so I pick a purpley color, and on the new layer went over the dress. Set the layer to "Color". Make another new layer, and I picked a peachy color for her skin, so I went over her skin with the brush, and set it to "color". Just keep doing this until you're done.

[flutterby]

Thank you thank you thank you