I made my first tutorials, so please excuse me if they're hard to follow.
In this first tut I'll be teaching you how to make the below avatar from a simple anime screencap in Photoshop. I've provided instructions ands screens. This is an absolute beginer tutorial.
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( Making an icon using Textures )In this next tutorial, I'll teach you how to make a dotted border like the below avatars have.
( Dotted Border Tutorial )In this last tutorial, I'm showing how to do something I've never before seen a tutorial for. Ever. I'm going to teach you how to take an image, and put it on it's own layer. Now before you claim to know how to do that, look at the finished product, I don't know how to describe the process. Below are some icons done in this style.
The beauty is once you have the image part on it's own layer, you're free to do whatever with either that, the background, or both. This is especially good when the image is low quality, because once you're done it's harder to tell.
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Except of course, the colors and texture you use is up to you!
( Seperating Layers (For lack of a better name) )Hope you liked my tutorials, please comment with either what you made using them or any questions you might have.