Hello everyone, I am back with second part of the article “How to make icon”. If you haven’t read first part and want to read it it’s <a href=”link> here </a>
So, today I’ll explain three things. That are “Uses of brush and “How to use Color Balance”. All the two are related with coloring effect and glittering of icon. Which plays an important role.
Uses of brushes : First of all you need to download different types of brushes, usually pattern brushes (like floral brushes and background design brushes) are less need in making icons so refuse to download them, instead Karl Star brushes and Sparkle brushes are very good for it. If you use Soft edge brush then it’s just perfect as it add special touch to the icons. One of icon (which you can see) is looking like it’s glowing because of “soft edge” brush. So in all it give awesome result and you don’t have to do so much of “hard work” for it. And remember don’t use it “too much” and it can spoil your icon, two three times using it is enough.
On the other hand, you can use “soft edge brush” in other way too.
Steps
1. Increase size of brush
2. Choose color (try yellow as it suits every icon)
3. Decrease opacity (don’t decrease tolerance as it’ll decrease color’s density)
4. Apply brush (soft edge brush) on edges only.
5. Here you go, you can see yellowish effect in your icon
nother example of giving effect (reddish) with brush, it'd not so good because I made it in hurry
Now comes the second topic “Color balance” or “Channel Mixer” it’s basically used to give color effect and very easy to use.
In color balance, you can adjust the color accommodation. You can increase reddish/cyan effect , green effect or yellow effect. It’s the easiest thing and really give great look to your icons.
Before and after using color balance
In part three I will tell you how to add texts , it’ll be totally based on texts in icons
