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29 April 2004 @ 11:33 am

How to use "Behind" icon brush Tutorial

This will be laughable for some people. *g*

Border: This is what most people use. A Border as top layer. The graphic
displayed on the icon, is underneath.

You can, of course, color your borders:

The "Behind": The behind has to be behind the image you want displayed.
You have to use the blend modes available in the layer palette.

(layer blending set to "soft light"; usually lookes like the original
image)

(layer
blending set to "color burn "; warmer colors; you have to set down
the opacity of the "behind" to at least 20%, otherwise you won't see
anything.)

Colored Brushes are also possible.

(layer blend on "color burn ". No opacity chaneg needed.

TIPP: if you want to see what certain colors look like in preview, choose Image
> Adjustments > Hue/SatA?D?I?uration. Move the Hue modulater back and
forth.

Mix & Match

I created several of those behinds for you to use. They can be downloaded here.

Tags: icons, tutorial

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subaia.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 02:58 am (UTC)

hey fish *smile*... i won´t laugh :)

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elli.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 03:01 am (UTC)

fish??? I'll give you fish......

mawaaaaaahhh..... *eatsyou*

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onecoldcanadian.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 03:17 am (UTC)

Thanks for making the image packs and your tutorials are never laughable (!).

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elli.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 04:53 am (UTC)

But this one...lol
*g* Thank you! *hugz*

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yuvi.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 07:02 am (UTC)

YAY!! another tutorial!!!

You know I love these :D

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elli.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 10:26 am (UTC)

*g*....did it your you sweetie... *g*

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psychme.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 08:15 am (UTC)

Heh. I'm one of the stupid people who didn't know how to use the behind brushes. *blushes* So thanks!

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elli.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 10:29 am (UTC)

lol....doesn't mak eyou stupid. Actually. I had this done by last week. But then..nah..uit's got really *G*

hope it inspires you.

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psychme.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 10:31 am (UTC)

*LOL* I already tried one with a behind really quickly. Not artsy or anything, but yay, it worked. Thanks again for the tutorial. :)

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elli.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 10:46 am (UTC)

I can see that. It looks really nice. *g*

Now you just need to make a gradient overlay and change the blend...hehe

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psychme.livejournal.com on April 29th, 2004 04:29 pm (UTC)

*LOL* I know it would be better with a gradient, but for some reason, I've never been successful at those. Whenever I try to make one of my own, it just comes out weird and ugly. Blah. ;)

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elli.livejournal.com on April 30th, 2004 12:30 am (UTC)

Just try one of the adobe ones that have been preset. Set to Soft Light.

Not weird and ugly...*g*

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psychme.livejournal.com on May 1st, 2004 04:40 am (UTC)

I just found out that there were other presets you could load aside from the 10 already up there. So yay. :) Thanks for the tip and I'll definitely try it out.

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elli.livejournal.com on May 4th, 2004 12:32 am (UTC)

There are? See...I learned something new too. *g*

A tip from me: use one, then choose Image> Hue/Saturation> Chnage hue...play with the mudulator. Will show lots of different colors.

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psychme.livejournal.com on May 8th, 2004 05:27 pm (UTC)

Oh, that's useful, too, indeed. Thank you so much!

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elli.livejournal.com on May 19th, 2004 12:28 pm (UTC)

welcome!

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melusineshines.livejournal.com on May 1st, 2004 11:54 am (UTC)

You rock so very hardcore. It is not laughable at all. In fact, it helped me a lot. Thanks for sharing.
Have I told you that you rock? ;D

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elli.livejournal.com on May 3rd, 2004 12:06 pm (UTC)

Oh thank you! *g*

Show me results, yeah? ->very curious.

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melusineshines.livejournal.com on May 5th, 2004 03:51 am (UTC)

here goes:

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elli.livejournal.com on May 8th, 2004 08:38 am (UTC)

Wow....that is awesome..and very different.

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melusineshines.livejournal.com on May 12th, 2004 11:57 am (UTC)

oh you think so? thanks!!
but never as unique and pretty as yours :)

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smallcondo.livejournal.com on July 2nd, 2004 11:04 am (UTC)

Ooh! You did another tutorial!

I found a brush similar to the one that you are using here and I was wondering how to crop around it, so this is most helpful. I also snagged the brushes you've linked here.

Awesome as always.

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