Paris Hilton Icon Tutorial (Lucky)
We will be making this icon:


First we start out with this image of Paris Hilton. I got it from Scan-Tastic which has a ton of awesome scans.
Then I crop and resize and edit with this:
Then we take the same picture and resize it so that it's MUCH smaller, and then using the FreeHand Selection tool( <--- that's what it looks like) to delete the background. Just select everything behind the mini-Paris and press delete. ^____^.
After that, I ended up with this , but that of course will be on top of the base of Paris you just made...looking like this .
Now, onto coloring: I used this gradient that I got from crumblingwalls and filled a new layer with it, then set the opacity to 48 and set the blending option to Screen.
It should now look like this:
Now I made a new layer and filled it with this gradient that is also from crumblingwalls. I then set that layer's opacity to 50 and also set the blending option to Hard Light.
It should now look like this:
Finally you just make a new layer with a 1 pixel black border and write the text in #130B51. Then you set this layer to overlay.

Finally, you should end up with

If you have any further questions or if you apreciate this tutorial please comment! ^_^

If I see this tutorial being distributed with no link back to me I shall be very angry..beware!


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