Tutorial 02: Big Fish icon

I actually made another tutorial! For this icon:



I used Adobe Photoshop 6.0 to make this. Click on the color names to see the exact colors I used.

1. Start off with this 100x100 cropped/resized image:

2. Make a new layer, fill it with dark blue, and set it to exclusion 45% opacity. Then make a new layer on top of that, fill it with tan, and set it to multiply 46% opacity. Then make a new layer on top of that one, fill it with a light blue, and set it to soft light, 50% opacity. Then copy the tan multiply layer and put that on top of everything, set to 79% opacity. It should now look something like this:

3. Now, duplicate the screencap layer, place it between the dark blue one and the first tan one, and set it to soft light, 100% opacity: (here is what your layer order should look like)

4. Then merge the whole thing into one layer (Shift+Ctrl+E). Make a new layer and fill it with a light blue. Set that to color burn, 100% opacity:

5. Duplicate the screencap layer and set it to soft light, 100% opacity*:

6. Duplicate the bottom layer again (so it's under the soft light one) and set it to screen, 92% opacity:

7. Then make a new layer on top of all the other ones. Take the "soft round 65 pixels" paintbrush that Photoshop comes with and use it once on that layer, in white. Set the layer to screen, 65% opacity:

8. Merge all the layers and use the sharpen tool to sharpen any areas you feel need it. Add the text and you're done! For the tiny text I used Times New Roman, 1.5px and spaced apart 600; the W was Parchment, and the rest of the word uses Problem Secretary Normal.

Here is the finished product:

notes:
*Steps 5-6: of course, the opacity and amount of times you'll need to duplicate the screen/soft light layers depends on the original picture you are using!
-thanks to stereo_grams for teaching me the wonders of color burn ;)
-since I didn't save the original Photoshop document, I had to re-make this. I think it looks like the original one. ^^;


Please tell me if anything is confusing about this. Also, it would be cool to see what you made!