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Tutorial 003, Harry & Hermione.

This is a very easy icon to make. First you need 2 pictures. I used beizy’s screen caps. Crop them, resize them and add one on top of the other. You could first put one on top of the other and just after that resize.. I find it easier to work with bigger images. Then use your lasso tool to make this left side/middle border

and color it white. Now you see that the people in this icon should be a little more on the right side of the icon so that the left side border wouldn’t cover their faces. I added a black border now to make it easier for you to see the white border. We add the real border later.

Sharpen. Go to Adjust Color -> Hue/Saturation -> Saturation –50 or so…

Go to layers -> duplicate layer (or layer via copy) twice & make a new blank layer. Fill the blank layer with dark blue. I used the color #000C49. Move the blue layer between the 2 background copies. The first background copy below the blue layer, put it to Screen and the one above the blue layer to Soft Light.

Now go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels (Mode. Normal, Opacity 100%) and click OK.
Now change the brightness and colors a little to make the image darker and a little bit more red and blue. My RGB was something around 0,74–0,80, Red 0,75-0,78, Green 0,90-0,95 and Blue 1,5-2. It’s hard to say exactly how they were.

The result should look something like this:

Move the Adjustment Layer downwards on top of the lowest duplicated layer (the Harry & Hermione one set on screen.).

Now create a new blank layer and fill it with black. Move it on top of the layers. Put the layer to Color 41%.

You should have them like this

Then.. I used coffee_day’s texture:

Overlay 66%

Then a gradient

Darken 42%

Then a texture/brush made by echac

Multiply 100%

but use your lasso tool to erase the part of the texture that is covering the main images (harry and hermione)… Just that the texture is on top of the color border.

Like this:

Then add pretty thick black borders around the 2 images, the color border and the whole icon.

Add text.

The first part of the tutorial (from blue layer to black) is from some other tutorial.