PintSizeGenius
Lab Technician
Re: The Fan Art Forum Guide
Sorry to double post, but no one has posted in here for days and i wanted to post my tutorial. It's very basic and probably rubbish, but oh well.
Going from this to this using PaintShop Pro X, i don't think it's translatable.
1. Open original image. Crop and resize to 100x100 pixels.
2. Remove the background with background eraser.
3. Add this texture as a new rastor layer and put it behind the image.
4. Duplicate the image twice and set both to screen opacity 100% to lighten it up. If it's too bright then lower the opacity. Merge all (flatten)
5. Create 4 new rastor layers. Set them all to Overlay opacity 20%. Colour them with different shades of blue, ranging from light to dark. Your layers palette should look something like this
6. Next, select your image again in your layers palette. Then go to Adjust>Softness>Soft Focus. Adjust the settings like this:
Focus: 50
Edge Importance: 0
Tick the include scattered light box.
Halo Amount: 50
Halo Size: 100
Halo Visibility: 50
Change these settings if you are unhappy with the result. Click ok, merge all layers (flatten). And you're done. Add text or anything you want.
Feel free to use this tutorial and the icon I made, but please credit me if you take it.
Thanks xxx
Sorry to double post, but no one has posted in here for days and i wanted to post my tutorial. It's very basic and probably rubbish, but oh well.
Going from this to this using PaintShop Pro X, i don't think it's translatable.
1. Open original image. Crop and resize to 100x100 pixels.
2. Remove the background with background eraser.
3. Add this texture as a new rastor layer and put it behind the image.
4. Duplicate the image twice and set both to screen opacity 100% to lighten it up. If it's too bright then lower the opacity. Merge all (flatten)
5. Create 4 new rastor layers. Set them all to Overlay opacity 20%. Colour them with different shades of blue, ranging from light to dark. Your layers palette should look something like this
6. Next, select your image again in your layers palette. Then go to Adjust>Softness>Soft Focus. Adjust the settings like this:
Focus: 50
Edge Importance: 0
Tick the include scattered light box.
Halo Amount: 50
Halo Size: 100
Halo Visibility: 50
Change these settings if you are unhappy with the result. Click ok, merge all layers (flatten). And you're done. Add text or anything you want.
Feel free to use this tutorial and the icon I made, but please credit me if you take it.
Thanks xxx