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How to make the confetti in this icon . . .

For PS CS2.

This is pretty much just an adaptation of [livejournal.com profile] awmpdotnet's tutorial for falling snow.

So go there, and do every thing she says, except when it comes time to paint the snow, do this instead:

1) Choose a square brush, 5px.

2) Change the brush settings:
brush tip shape: spacing = 500%
shape dynamics: size jitter = 100%, angle jitter = 15% (my setting, you can do more if you like)
scattering: scatter = 1000%, count = 3

3) Then paint wherever you want to the confetti to be. Make sure none of the squares get cut off, cause that'll look weird.

4) ctrl + click your confetti layer to select all the little squares, then make a new layer.

5) Apply any gradient of your choosing to the new layer. I picked a default rainbow. Because you selected only the squares you painted the gradient will go only on them. Merge that layer down on to the brush layer.

6) Make a new layer, and change your brush tip size to 3. Again paint with the white and then apply the gradient as you did for the large brush layer.


At this point go back to awmpdotnet's tutorial and carry on with the rest of the instructions.

(The font I used is "Beyond Wonderland" and the pic is a stock photo of a snowy mountain that I colored to make it look like night.)
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This is for the use of those of us who have Photoshop Elements, so can't get the benefit of either curves or the color balance commands in many tutorials. But we do have levels and that's what this tut is about. I have Elements 4.0.

Turning this screen shot into this icon:

as crisp and clean as Sam herself )
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This really isn't a real tut, because the icon was dead easy, just trying to make sure this table thing works for future tuts.

(And so I can be happy over my new header image. *g*)

rainbow violin icon )
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Photoshop Elements 4.0

The loverly Justin Poortinga:

Going from this:

to this:

here we go . . . )
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This icon involves a lot of base prep because the design was driven more by the quote that I wanted to use than by the picture itself. The quote is "Yet we sleep, we dream," from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

So I had this pic of Karl Urban, asleep, with flowers in his hair. I wanted to take him out of this one and put him in some sort of green mossy-looking foresty background.

Going from this to this

fool around with the base . . .  )
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I'm using Photoshop Elements 4.0, so I'm sure this would be heaps easy for any higher level software.

I chose this pic because it was fairly simple, not a lot of extra stuff.

So we're going from this: to this:

still with me? )

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