It's a bit dark, so I'm gonna duplicate the first layer and set it to Screen at 50% opacity which makes it less harsh and lighter and all this other technical schtuff, ya know?ħ. If you don't know how to do that, ask me! Soft Light kinda 'intensifies' the colours which makes it look good, hehe.Ħ. Now duplicate the layer, and set to Soft Light at 100% opacity. Here's what mine looks like after sharpening!ĥ. Sharpen, but on others I think it's Filter > Sharpen. I'm using a purdyful painting by Salvador Dali! Now, find a picture you wanna make an icon of and import it into your document (in Corel it's File > Import.

Weeeeell, open up your icon-making program (Microsoft Paint won't work - sorry suckers) and create a new document 100px x 100px.

I use Corel Photo-paint 12, if you're wondering, which isn't too different from PSP or PS - in fact, it's extremely similar, so hopefully you won't have too much trouble translating it to your program ^_^ġ. Like most other icon tuts out there, it's just a pic with a whole lot of layers piled on top of it.

Learn to go from to ! It's easy peasy lemon-squeezy. (posted at my journal, camelliastar and at icon_tutorial) The effect is grungy, aged and heavily textured. I'd written this tutorial some time ago when I was EXTREMELY bored and staying at my grandma's house for the week, but never showed it to anyone except on my now-dead website which hardly had any hits, so I've decided to show it to you guys! Hope you like.

Corel photo paint 12