#icon making tutorial

[honorforged-archive]

Icon Tutorial: Photopea

Photopea is a free alternative to Photoshop and GIMP. The program runs via their website so there is nothing to install !

I used to take a copy / pasted screencap from this:

To this:

Tutorial below !

Step 1: Cropping and Resizing

First you need to open the website and drag / drop in your screencap.

Now select the crop tool and crop the image to your needs. I did 889px x 889 px. Make sure to hit enter to actually crop the image.

Once you've cropped it, go to Image > Image Size and make it 100px x 100px.

Step 2: Coloring

Now that you've got your 100px x 100px image, we're going to make some basic coloring adjustments. First, select that Background layer and right click, then select duplicate layer. You're going to do this twice.

Now you're going to select the second later and set it to Multiply. Then set the third one to Screen. It should look like this.

Now, to give this little guy some definition, go to Filter > Sharpen > and select Smart Sharpen. Set it to 75%.

Now your icon should look like this:

At this point, select all three layers and go to Layer > Merge Layers and this will combine them into one.

It's time to export your icon ! Go to File > Export As > Export as PNG or JPG, and save your file.

That's all there is to it !

Making icons in Photopea is a great way to save storage space and still get to have great looking icons you made yourself. And because it does all the things you'd need photoshop to do, you can add frames and other embellishments too. This is also a great way to make your own blog aesthetic graphics, but that's another tutorial.

You can find my other series of icons tutorials here. Everything I've done in Photoshop or Gimp can be done in Photopea.

[conmenticius]

Advances Icon Making with Bre

Hey guys! In this lesson, we’ll be moving onto some slightly more complex options and steps you can take to make your icon a little more unique! If you aren’t sure what’s going on, please go read the first lesson! The link is below in the Table of Contents.

As always, things you will need:

Photoshop

Base icons without borders

Table of Contents:

First Lesson

Advanced Steps

Batch Icon Making

Now, let’s move onto your next lesson!

We left off last time with a pretty nifty looking icon! But, we can take it much further! A problem you might run into with using a drop shadow effect is the shadow cutting off on the sides. You can either extend the canvas, or get rid of the outer shadow all-together! In this lesson, we’ll be getting rid of the outside shadow.

This will ensure that the border merges down properly and you don’t lose your copy layer! Make sure you’re renaming the needed layers as you go on. You don’t want to lose track of them!

This is going to make it so that you can alter the shadow!

And there you have it! A fancier icon with a nice border and no problems with transparency within a post! In the next lesson, I’m going to teach you how to make multiple icons at once!

[voraxvenustas]

Tutorial: Icon Making

Step 1: Find an image you like and copy it

Step 2: Paste the image into whatever paint document you have. We’ll use basic Paint for this tutorial. Then, using the select button highlight the area you want as an icon.

Step 3: Reposition the icon to the corner. Then click somewhere else on the picture to save the positioning of the icon.

Step 4: Take the corner of the image and pull it up until you get to your icon, then stop.

Step 5: Resize the icon to whatever value you need it, until it’s at the right size. Not too big and not too small.

Step 6: If you want to watermark the icon with your URL, this is what you do. Choose the text and a place where to put your watermark. Then choose the color, font, and size of the watermark. Type your URL initials. Then the last step is to press save.

Congratulations, now you’ve made your own icon! ^_^ I hope this helps!

[anime-icon-plaza]

i've always wanted to have icons of this drama character, though i'm not sure if any icon maker would be interested, so i'm wondering if you could teach me how to make icons so i could do it myself? uwu

I could either make them for you if you provide me a source, or I'd be happy to teach you! 

Tutorial: Start!

First, I pick a photo of a character (for the sake of the tutorial, I'll be using this)

and then I upload it to sherv. It should then look like this:

you want to have the default "Display Picture/Avatar" setting checked. Then, just drag the box's handles and size it the way you want, saving it when you're finished, and wal-ah! You have an icon in the rough. 

After that, open the icon up in Photoshop (or something similar that has the same editing options). The first thing you'll need to do is sharpen the image, and you can do that by using the following steps or something slightly different, since I have an older version:

depending on the quality of the image, you may have to select "sharpen more" if "sharpen" doesn't cut it. (haha see the pun i made there) 

Your icon should then look a bit more defined, like mine (you can even compare the before/after). 

Before:

After:

Next, go to:

Make sort of a loose S-Shape with the grid, keeping it to the side so you can see how your icon will look and adjusting it accordingly. 

Now, your icon should look something like this: 

If you're happy with this result, then that's great! But if you'd like to continue further, then you might want to play around with more Image>Adjustment options, such as Saturation, Color, Brightness, and Contrast. I've done a few of these for an example of a more complex icon. 

In this finished product, I altered the Color Levels and Brightness/Contrast. If you'd like to add a bit more than that, you can even add lens flares, which add a nice touch (but only in certain cases, as a lens flare in this icon would look a little out of place, ie):

I hope that helps you out!! Sorry that this reply was a bit delayed. Feel free to ask more questions if you didn't understand a process or need help finding one!