#icons tutorials

[photopeablr]

same anon about the icon… i’ve tried several tutorials on how to make an icon on photopea and no luck. where i struggle is the second step i guess when you have to create another layer for the icon, idk

so i tried to explain what i do when i make icons, and i... accidentally made an entire tutorial LMAO but hopefully you will find this one helpful! i tried to be thorough with all of the steps, so let me know if you have any issues following this one.

in this tutorial, we're going to be making the icon in this header:

let's get into it!

first thing we need to do is have our subject that the icon is going to be of. i suggest using a clear screenshot of them from whatever show/movie/music video/etc they are from where they aren’t in the middle of moving so you can get the best cutout, which i do by using this site. below is the screenshot i will be using:

you can pre-crop your screenshot in photopea if you’d like, especially if there’s other stuff in the screenshot. in this case, with my screenshot, i’d like to have choso be more centered and not have to really worried about having to erase the back of mahito’s head later on, so i simply cropped it with photopea’s crop tool to get this:

now that you have your screenshot, you have two options: using the “polygonal lasso select” tool (right click the third option from the top of your toolbar on the left side of photopea to find it) to do the very tedious task of cutting out around your subject by hand yourself, or use remove.bg (the site i mentioned earlier) to let the site do the hard work for you.

i personally use remove.bg for basically all of my icon making – very rarely do i need to cut out my subjects on my own with most screenshots, especially if they’re the main subject of the screenshot and the screenshot is clear, which is why i emphasized that at the beginning of this tutorial. since my choso screenshot is very clear, remove.bg won’t have any problem cutting him out for me.

to use remove.bg, save your (cropped) screenshot by going to file > export as > png and open remove.bg. once you open up the site, your screen should look something like this.

click the big blue “upload image” button and select your screenshot, and let the site load. depending on your screenshot, you should have a pretty clean cut out. for example, this is what mine ended up looking like:

now you can click the big blue “download” button there on the right and open that up in photopea, with your subject now on a transparent background. your screen should now look something like this:

now we can make the base background for our icon. go to file > new… to create a new canvas. here, you can make the settings for your icon, including the name, size, and background color. i personally make my icons 250x250, but i find anything between 200x200 to 250x250 works. anything smaller than that tends to get really compressed on tumblr, and anything bigger loses its detail once it’s on tumblr because of that same compression, so 200-250 is the sweet spot for having higher quality icons (especially with photopea, which tends to decrease the quality because it’s a free online service).

these are the settings for my icon’s new canvas:

clicking that big “create” button then leads us here:

from here, you can leave the canvas as the plain single color that it is, but i personally like the look of the slight gradient that many other icon makers use to make the icon a little more interesting. to achieve that slight gradient, on your canvas, go to layer > new fill layer > gradient fill. your screen should now look something like this:

on the right, next to the “opacity” textbox, click the dropdown menu that says “normal” and change the blending setting to “soft light”. your canvas will look something like this:

with that big popup menu that allows you to adjust the gradient, make the gradient go in whatever direction you’d like. play around with the settings until you find something you like, and be sure to use the “opacity” textbox on the right to help you with the intensity of the gradient if you need to. this is what my settings look like:

which are pretty standard with all of the icons i make. and that’s the background of your icon! you can leave that alone for now.

now we need to color our subject for the icon. i prefer coloring my subject on the same canvas that i opened it after sending it through remove.bg, so i’m going to do that now. with my coloring, my subject choso now looks like this:

to make sure all of the coloring i did stays on choso, and doesn’t change the color of my icon background when i copy him over, i am going to create a layer mask on the folder with my adjustment layers in it. to do this, hold down the “ctrl” button on the keyboard and left click the little image of your subject on the right (next to where the layer says “background”). doing so should make a dotted line show up around your subject like this:

now that the subject has been selected, click on the folder that has your adjustment layers in it. towards the bottom of where all your layers are, you should see a square with a circle in the middle of it, in between the “eff” and half-filled circle buttons.

when you click that, it creates a raster mask on your folder so that the only thing affected by the adjustment layers (and whatever else you put in the folder) affect your subject. that folder now should look something like this:

alright, we’re almost done! now we need to resize our subject and move all of what we’ve done here to the icon background canvas we made earlier. to make our lives easier, select the “background” layer and the folder with your adjustments in it by holding down “ctrl” and left clicking each layer, which allows you to select multiple layers at once. where you made the raster mask a moment ago, on the other side of the half-filled moon, you should see a folder icon. click that to group the background layer and the adjustment layers into a folder together:

since our icon’s background is 250x250, i tend to make my subjects have a 175-200 width, depending on how big the subject itself is. since choso has such big and pointy hair, i’m going to make the width 190px. this will depend on your subject/crop, so feel free to do some trial and error testing to find what works best for you!

right click the new folder you created a moment ago with the subject and adjustment layers folder inside, and select “duplicate into…”. in the popup, select the canvas you’re duplicating into (we only have two, so…just the other one, lol):

going to our icon background canvas, we can see that our subject isn’t really centered:

this is personal preference, but i like to have the eyes of my subject be somewhat towards the center of my icons. go to view > add guides… and you’ll have a popup where you can set up guides for your icon that looks like this:

i set up my guides to be at halfway between the width/height of my icon, so since we have a 250x250 icon, i’m going to fill in the vertical and horizontal textboxes in the popup with 125 for both, which makes our canvas now look like this:

this will make it a lot easier to center the eyes of the subject because we can now aim for that center point where both lines connect (rather than guessing where the “middle” is). click “ok” to save your guides, and now with your main folder selected, center the subject on your icon canvas. if you want to get it perfectly centered, open the main folder and ctrl + left click the subject’s layer and the raster mask of the adjustments layers folder and move them on the canvas — your subject should “snap” to the center with a red line when you move it there. 

now that i’ve moved my subject where i want him to be, my canvas now looks like this:

again, feel free to play around with how you want your subject to be placed on the canvas. it will probably be different depending on things like the angle and size of the subject!

once you’re happy with the subject’s placement on the canvas, you can remove the guides you made by going to view > clear guides. if you want to make extra adjustments to the coloring of your subject, make sure to open up the folder where all of your adjustment layers are and only make those adjustments within that folder. this way you can make sure that all of the coloring stays on your subject and doesn’t mess with your icon background’s coloring that we did earlier.

now my icon looks like this after adjusting the coloring to better match the purple of my icon background:

almost done! last part of making our icon is to sharpen the subject. you’ll want to do some pretty minimal sharpening, just because (as i’ve mentioned before) tumblr and other sites you may use the icon on will compress the image, and i don’t really want to have a pixelated, unidentifiable blob on a pretty purple background to be my icon. your sharpening will greatly depend on the subject of your icon — once again, play around with different settings to find what you think looks best! make sure to have your subject layer selected before doing any sharpening.

since my subject is from an anime, i will be using a slightly adjusted version of this tutorial by @aq2003. below are the list of what i did for the sharpening settings:

filter > other > mimimum… (0.5)

filter > sharpen > smart sharpen… (200px amount, 0.2 radius)

filter > blur > surface blur… (radius and threshold both set to 3px)

filter > filter gallery… ("grain" under "texture" header, intensity 5 with grain type set to "soft")

and what each of those steps looked like, in order:

and from here, you're basically done! there are texture packs out there by various other users, such as @peytonsawyers and @evanbukley, that you can play around with to add some more fun stuff to your icon’s background, but for the sake of this tutorial, we’re all finished!

make sure to save the psd of your icon (file > save as psd) and to save your icon as a png (file > export as… > png). you’ll get a “save for web�� pop up like you do with gifs, where you can preview the icon (again) before saving it:

and that’s it! congrats, you’ve made an icon in photopea :) hopefully you found this helpful, anon!

[c1g4r3tt3sm0k3]

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—- alts under the cut.

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[cozysip]

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a  template  by  cozysip.

by  clicking in  the  source link  you’ll  find  02  different dash icon templates  made  by  me  from  scratch.   credit  is  not  needed ,  but  do  not  claim  as  your  own  !  if  you  enjoy  this  or  you  use  it, please  reblog  or  like  this  post  .  thank    you !

[girlboyburger]

How do you get that grainy texture on your art? It’s very nice!

thank you!! i love art that's soft and fuzzy...

i generally do it a handful of different ways, but i tend to bounce between a color noise filter layer in soft light mode, between 30% and 50% opacity,

... or i use something from my wide array of paper textures, and usually set the layer to overlay and play with opacity till i'm happy with it

......oooorr i do a combination of the two! which i did in the final version of this piece, which i Also added a gradient map to to make the colors a lil more ✨Dramatic✨

here's where i got (most of) my paper textures and here's a rainbow color noise texture (that i don't personally use but looks rlly similar!)

[notaorbital]

hi I really like your mb and I'm new here. Do u have any suggestions or tips to make mb? like where did u get the pics and the captions.

𝓜oodboards: a guide for beginner blogs!

I decided to bring here a small tutorial that can help other blogs that are starting out and still have questions that need clarification, with tips and links that you may need. I wrote this from my point of view of creating moodboards and I tried to be as brief as possible in my explanation, there may be errors in English as I'm not fluent in that language and everything here was translated using Google Translate, any questions you can contact me via asks or by message.

how do I find pics for moodboards?

Pinterest is where you will find most images for moodboards, so create a Pinterest board just for these images, separating them into subboards for each color or aesthetic to make it easier.

Some blogs leave the link to their Pinterest accounts in pinneds or in the carrd, you can follow them and save the pics they published on the app in your boards, this will influence the Pinterest algorithm so that they recommend more of the type of images you want.

You can also search on Pinterest for the aesthetic and color you want (coquette pink aesthetic, cottagecore aesthetic, y2k, etc.).

how to make moodboards + tips:

Well, it's not such a complicated thing for me. I generally make moodboards with 6 or 9 images, taking inspiration from the moodboards of other blogs that I admire, so I can get an idea of ​​how to make the captions and how to position the photos in a way that matches them.

To make it easier, first I create the moodboard and then I look for an icon of a kpop idol that can match the aesthetics and color of the moodboard. The reverse can also be done: first choose an icon and make a moodboard for that image, paying attention to the color palette and tonality (and for some reason, for me it's better to create moodboards in Tumblr's light mode instead of dark mode)

When I finish the moodboard, I add the caption, the hashtags (which will be very important for your post to reach other people) and maybe a divider. You can find these dividers on other blogs or by searching for "dividers" on Tumblr.

If you want to split a photo into two or more images, use this site.

how to create captions:

To make the captions, I use parts of songs that I like or that I found searching on Pinterest for "Spotify song lyrics", but they can also be album or song names, movie names, a phrase you thought, etc. The symbols you will put in the caption can be found on this website or just by searching for "symbols", "kpop symbols", "kaomojis" on tumblr.

If you want to use a different font for the letters, there are these two websites (01 and 02). And to change the color, there are also these two tutorials (01 and 02).

what to do to make your blog "popular":

Add popular hashtags that relate to the content you are posting. If you use almost the same tags as other big blogs, your posts will have more reach. Posting frequently and your account looking nice and organized helps too.

Ask several other popular blogs to promote your account. This was very important for my profile to grow in the number of followers and engagement.

Join the events that some blogs do, as they offer good prizes like reblogs if you win. And remember to have patience, as it often takes a while to get good engagement on Tumblr.

[imjustchillinghere]

Tutorial on How to Use Banner/Icon Masks

req by MANY PEOPLE- I'm so sorry for keeping you guys waiting for a tutorial that I should've posted ages ago🫠

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NOTE:

the wm is there for anyone that wishes to post my tutorial on other platforms without mentioning me at all. Tbh I'm not that crazy about creds normally, it's just annoying how some people will go to such lengths just not to give creds where it's due... At least don't claim it's yours pls😭

[c1g4r3tt3sm0k3]

BASIC ACC FREINDLY LIGHT PINK MINIMAL CARRD

Hiii guys, to the comments and everyone i apologize for the inconvenience of the title and everything, the carrd was free at one point but many people kept stealing the carrd and removing creds and giving copies of the carrd and saying they made it. I had sent out posts on here and my discord server letting everyone know if it didn't stop i would start charging for the carrd or just take it away all together and it got progressively worse so i decided to change it to a paid carrd and realized after a couple comments about it on this post that i forgot to change the post and take away the parts where i said free, if you would like the carrd for free there is a tut up on my youtube channel (linked in my pinned post or comms carrd i believe) for it but i won't be giving out copies or temps of it anymore besides the paid one thank you!!

HIIII everyone here's a new carrd! obtain it here look at it here!

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[namphoria]

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[necroangelz]

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—- this might be the most graphics I've ever edited for a set

—- likes and reblogs are always appreciated. credits are mandatory. thank you for supporting the angelic streamer.

[thereaderinsertlady]

Based off of @camprell-art 's reblog :3

WAAAH THIS TOOK FOREVER MY HAND IS FALLIN OFF AHRGRGG anyways, in remembrance of @cottoncanderino spending like an hr or 2 on a lil twitter icon only to cover up the background with a (ahem) rather big-chested character, here are closeups of the icons in the pic

[c1g4r3tt3sm0k3]

haii !! can i request a hazbin hotel inspired non pro friendly carrd ? :) if not hazbin hotel could it be just red / gothic themed ? thank you so much <3 ur carrds are beautiful !!!

TYSM, and i decided to go with a neutral dark red themed carrd that could be hazbin hotel if you add hazbin images since i got another req for a dark red carrd also! hope that was okay :))

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