This tutorial combines a few of my favorite techniques: blending an image onto a background convincingly, and creating depth in your graphic.

To demonstrate, we'll be going from this (hi-res) to this:

( Onward! )

More font work, how exciting! Today's is going to be a little more advanced than the first font tutorial. We're going to cover Type Masking. I am by no means a master, but this will explain it's basic function and usage.

( Still Image-Heavy )

I would continue, but I feel like my brain is oozing out of my ears. I'll wrap up the font tutorials with a third segment, featuring Effects and general tips.

I've always had a hell of a time making text icons, although you'd think they'd be the easiest. And everybody else seemed to have no problems fitting entire paragraphs onto a 100x100px image and making it a.) clear, b.) readable, and c.) interesting.

Anyway, I'm going to post up this tutorial on how to do all the basics to adjust your fonts in Photoshop and hopefully make your graphics more interesting.

( Image Heavy and Super Long )

Okay, I said "super long" in the cut text, but that really got super long (what with wanting to cover ALL the bases) so I'm going to wrap it up for this session and continue tomorrow with Type Masking, Effects, and Tips.

Part 2: Type Masking

The other day I was playing around, trying to get a certain coloring, and I was pleasantly surprised when I actually got it. So I thought I'd write up this tutorial for y'all, because I think it's cool.



( This is going to be image-heavy! )

And that's it! If anything is unclear or you have any questions, please just ask. I'm more than happy to clarify things.

Oookay, time for another spectacular icon tutorial, simply because I'm really happy with how this one turned out.

We're going to go from this image, to this:

( start by resizing )

Now wasn't that fun? Textures are the greatest. Except maybe for gradients. >.> Hmmm.

I'm bored and terribly proud of this icon (seeing as I have yet to do anything actually cool with an Elijah pic), so I'm going to make a tutorial. Yay!

Let's go from this: to this: .

( this won't hurt a bit, I promise )