Ohai there! The icon I will be making is very simple. However, it does involve a little bit of selective colouring. But it’s ok if you’re not able to do that because it’s not mandatory. You can manually change certain colours if you would like.

If you like my tutorial, and would like to see more made by me, then feel free to request a tutorial by using the contact form in the exits section. Otherwise have fun and don’t forget to credit me!

First I started off with a blank canvas. Then I spent some time looking through my icon textures and found THIS one which I liked, and haven’t used yet. So I pasted it into my canvas.

I knew I wanted a small model to fit into the icon. So I searched some editorials until I found the photograph I liked. I chose THIS one. I cut out the background using a mask layer [Right click >> New Mask Layer >> Show All]. Then I resized her so that her height would be a few pixels smaller than the height of the canvas. About 80px. Afterward I sharpened the base image just a TINY bit.

I didn’t like how she was positioned after I pasted her on the cutout. So I mirrored the image [Image >> Mirror] and moved her to the left and slightly downward.

I thought the icon was missing something, and I wanted to add something shiny. So I looked through my icon textures again and found THIS one which I liked. I pasted it as a new layer and set the blend mode to LIGHTEN.

Personally, I didn’t like the purple coloured dress. To me the colours clash with the turquoise in the shiny texture. So I merged all the layers and copied the canvas. Then I opened Photoshop and pasted the image. I set a new selective colour layer.

Blues

Cynan: +100

Magenta: -100

Yellow: +100

Magenta

Cyan: +100

Magenta: -100

Yellow: +100

I copied the image from PS and pasted it as a new layer back in PSP8. If you can’t use selective colouring it’s ok. You can manually use the paintbrush to paint the dress a turquoise color and then play around with the blend modes until you get the colour you like.

I still felt like something was missing. I wanted to give a very subtle splash of colour. So I created THIS texture. I then colourised it to a medium-dark fusia colour using manual colour correction. Adjust >> Color Balance >> Manual Colour Correction.

Source: #808080

Target: #BF507C

If you don’t have this feature, it’s ok. You can just manually colourise it, or use whichever method you’re comfortable with.

Afterward I pasted my newly-made texture as a new layer and set the blend mode to SCREEN.

And voila! I’m finished. Pretty simple. If you have any questions regarding this tutorial feel free to ask me by leaving a comment below. Lastly, don’t forget to credit back! ^_^