Avatars With Decorations ::2 Tuts::

[SweetHoney]

Nya desu~

Well I made these tuts awhile ago for another site I go to (animesuki). There are two tuts to these so I'm sorry I'm going to have to double post .

First of all open up an image that you want to make into these avies. For this tut I'll being using this Nao picture



Get the crop tool and select the area where you want to have in the avatar. After this go to. Image-Image size 100X100 or you desired resoultion. You should now have something like this.



Now make a NEW layer and make sure it is under the picture. So you still see the picture, but there is a white layer under neath the picture layer.

After this has been done select the picture layer and you see where it has options like Opacity and there is something that says Normal. Go to that bar and find overlay and select it. If you've done all the steps right so far it should look like this.



BUT you will need a colour for the brushes to show up like the ones I showed you and the very beg. of this tut. I like to have the characters hair colour since it usually blends well.

At this point you should now have a colour of your choice and have the brush tool selected as your current tool.

Before you go on you should go to Deviantart and download Icon brushes. Icon Brushes

Once you've found your favourite brushes download it and select it through the brush options. Note: I'm not going through how to download brushes etc.*

Find the brush/es you just download and select it. Now Zoom in on your picture and find the area you'd like to put the brush. Reminder you must of selected the White layer NOT the picture layer.

So contuine doing this to you're happy with you're results. Finish it up with a border and Save as a PNG, JPG or GIF. and you should have something like this



Well I hope this tut can help some people.

Enjoy but most of all Good-luck!~

[SweetHoney]

Originally Posted by SweetHoney

There are two tuts to these so I'm sorry I'm going to have to double post .

Explained why I'm doubling posting


Now select your desired image you'd like to practise on with this tut. I chose Hanyuu out of this picture.



Crop it and Sharpen it *hint- I usually go Filter-Sharpen-Unsharpen Mask-Raidus 0.5-Threshold 2*

Once doing this you should have something around like this.



Now duplicate that layer.

After duplicating the first layer put the second layer on colour burn and reduce it's opacity to around 23-60% or what ever suits your fancy.

It should now look like this



New layer and fill it with the colour of the characters hair. Set to Exclusion and reduce the opacity to around 9%



Now here comes the part where you add icon textures. I usually find my textures at DevianArt or colourfilter.

Examples:



I'm going to using this one



And then copy that and paste it onto a new layer where your working on your icon. Select the blending mode to Lighten and IF sometimes it doesn't work out reduce the opacity.

Now you should have something like this.



And you're done!

But I'd like to use my other tut while doing these icons and I get.



I'm sorry if this doesn't really make sense to you *Sweet desu~ is feeling really ill*

So I wish you all the best of luck with this tut :)

[JDM_z3]

~ nice Tutorial...very good job. ^^

[GEN]

the first avitar im not all that into but the second nice job on, nice tut

[SweetHoney]

Nya desu,

Thanks for the nice comments Gen & Boy_z3. Oh and Gen I know the first one is kinda boring but without the first one the second final result for the second one wouldn't come out =3.

Nya again thanks for commenting

[Mimi Katsuki]

=o interestin but nice job ^^

[raikenyuu]

nice one! kawaii desu nee!

[Buttnaked]

Thanks SweetHoney, the link to those photoshop icon brushes on deviant art was a great. I went a little crazy trying them out, very fun.
It was cool of you to take the time and give us a tutorial, keep up the good work.

[SweetHoney]

Originally Posted by Buttnaked

Thanks SweetHoney, the link to those photoshop icon brushes on deviant art was a great. I went a little crazy trying them out, very fun.
It was cool of you to take the time and give us a tutorial, keep up the good work.

It's quite alright ^^

Glad I've helped you