Making an Icon with Photobie

Here, I'll be teaching you how to make an icon in Photobie using icon textures, brushes, and a base. This won't take long, only about five minutes or so.

First, take an icon base like so:

credit:Quiescent
Paste it into Photobie (Edit => Paste as new image) and adjust the saturation just a little bit to make it more high quality. Here's how it looks so far:

Now we'll paste this icon texture:

credit:xchirix@LJ
and lower the opacity. Now, play around with the saturation, cold-warm, brightness, and contrast (well, all of them) until you get something similar to this:

We don't need to lower the opacity, since we did that before switching the colors around. Next, we'll take:

credit:xchirix (link above)
this icon texture, paste it, and lower the opacity so it looks like this:

Now for the final step! Take this brush:

credit:Shizoo
and on your color pallet switch your current color to white. Then, apply it to your icon using the brush tool after selecting it. Here's my result:

Tutorial donated by Rii

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