Tutorial : Making Icons {+ How to Use PSD}

I never planned to post any of my old tutorials here, because they were all pretty lame. And I don't even think they're even helping at all. But since someone asked me to re-upload them back, I guess I'll just do so. 

WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO MAKE AN ICON

• Photoshop CS5 {x} // I don't know if this works on other Photoshops, but it's a simple one, so I'm pretty sure it will
• A picture // lol of course you need one then how will you make an icon
• Any PSDs // just to make the colouring easier // download here {x} or {x}

Step 1:

Open Photoshop. Right click > Run as administrator

Open the image that you wanted to use. File > Open > Choose Image

Step 2: (THIS IS HOW TO USE A PSD)

Open the PSD that you wanted to use. File > Open > Choose your PSD

Duplicate the PSD onto the image. Right click > Duplicate > Choose location > OK

It will become like this:

Flatten your image, so that the PSD will stay there. Layer > Flatten Image

Well, that's how a PSD works. It changes the colour of an image. But, be careful while choosing your PSD, sometimes it just ruins the image and made it worse. You just have to play with it a little, remove this add that. You'll learn it yourself in no time :)

Step 3:

Click on the crop button, and set the width and height to 100px X 100px // any number is fine as long as it is the same.

Then crop the image. It will automatically resize the image into 100px (if you wrote 100px).

And when you're done cropping, you're finished. Don't forget to save it

Here's the result:

It's not really that hard, right?

Requested by: Jaera
Tutorial by: yours truly
Extra credits to the owner of the PSD and L's image, which I forgot who /facepalm

Till next time ♡ Love, Humaira