Post Reply Icons (tutorial psp9)

[matthew]

1 take a screenshot (PrtSc SysRq) of some post reply icons

2.select the Selection tool and copy (Ctrl+C) the top row and Paste (Ctrl+P)



3. then Select the other row and copy (Ctrl+C) and paste as a new layer (Ctrl+L) over the top.


4. you now have something like this.



5. create a new Raster layer and set the blend mode to color

6.choose your colour and using the paint bucket tool flood fill the color layer



7.for both rows merge all and copy and paste



8. then select all the buttons separately and save them


and you've finished.

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there's a lot more you could do to make your icons look super spiffy, so just have a play around and see what you can come up with.

for example , backtrack to stage 4. at this point I would colorpick the back ground color and fil in all the outlines of the buttons until I had something like this.



i don't like the black very much so i tone it down a little with a nice green grey,again using the paintbucket(floodfill) tool, and then (returning to steps 5 and 6) i create a coloured layer using the same grey-green.





I then crop the layers by one pixel on all sides



and do the same as in steps 7 and 8 then I flood fill both images with a gradient and 'add borders'.




Returning to step 8, i select each of the buttons and save them.

all done.

M@

[~•XyMiC•~]

I freaking love this site. This site is the best. I learned three things today. 1)how to make smiley(animated), 2) How to make grunge sigs, 3) How to make post reply Icons. You guys are really helpful. Thanks A Lot

[~•XyMiC•~]

How do you take screenshot of post reply icons?

[matthew]

Press the PrtSc SysRq button (it's to the right of F12), and then you need to paste it into a graphics program

[~•XyMiC•~]

Oh Okay, Thanks

[serpent]

Thanks for that MaHud. I made a set which I'm going to submit to SSD later.

[Ty_135]

is it possible to do this wit photoshop???