@TyaStarcraft: Go You will need a software like GIMP or Photoshop, and some patience. Each person might have a technique to paint that, but I'd start with the darker tones then move to the lighter ones, paint them manually then use a blur tool to make them look more like a gradient. I don't have a link to help you, but if you have no experience I suggest searching for basic photoshop tutorials first.
I'm familiar with paint.net and I've been using that to make all my custom icons. Though that rarely goes further than resizing and altering hue/saturation, the results are usually pretty good. I wouldn't really call that skill though.
It's really just drawn on top of the icon manually? I have... 32 to do. That sounds painstakingly slow.
This style of glow from your icon pack is what I'm talking about.
I tired to recreate the purple glow from your first post, and made this with "outer glow" feature of layer's "blending options" in Photoshop.
I don't know teaching links, but can explain, how I done it.
You need to select black space around the model with the "magic wand" tool, then invert selection, which will make the colorful part of the icon selected. Then copy-paste it, right click on the new emerged layer, pick "blending options", check "outer glow", pick color and configure the sliders for the desired gradient.
A little bit of inner glow can be added too, so the glow spread on the inner part too, otherwise there would be a sharp border.
And this post explains how to apply a sequence of actions to multiple icons.
@Zolden: Go The Outer Glow is an option, as is Stroke, both are Photoshp blending options, but they won't achieve that effect exactly because they are too uniform. But you can use them as a base and then paint over them.
@TyaStarcraft: Go Those aren't good examples, because they were taken fro Blizzard's achievements. There are a few in other packs that were made by me though, and they were all painted manually, or over a Stroke effect.
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How would I go about turning icons like this;
Into icons like this?
Adding a glow around the icon outline itself, along with some bright glowy background.
Just a link to some resource explaining simple processes like this would be great. I have little to no experience in the field.
@TyaStarcraft: Go You will need a software like GIMP or Photoshop, and some patience. Each person might have a technique to paint that, but I'd start with the darker tones then move to the lighter ones, paint them manually then use a blur tool to make them look more like a gradient. I don't have a link to help you, but if you have no experience I suggest searching for basic photoshop tutorials first.
I'm familiar with paint.net and I've been using that to make all my custom icons. Though that rarely goes further than resizing and altering hue/saturation, the results are usually pretty good. I wouldn't really call that skill though.
It's really just drawn on top of the icon manually? I have... 32 to do. That sounds painstakingly slow.
This style of glow from your icon pack is what I'm talking about.
I tired to recreate the purple glow from your first post, and made this with "outer glow" feature of layer's "blending options" in Photoshop.
I don't know teaching links, but can explain, how I done it.
You need to select black space around the model with the "magic wand" tool, then invert selection, which will make the colorful part of the icon selected. Then copy-paste it, right click on the new emerged layer, pick "blending options", check "outer glow", pick color and configure the sliders for the desired gradient.
A little bit of inner glow can be added too, so the glow spread on the inner part too, otherwise there would be a sharp border.
And this post explains how to apply a sequence of actions to multiple icons.
I'll give it a shot, thank you!
@Zolden: Go The Outer Glow is an option, as is Stroke, both are Photoshp blending options, but they won't achieve that effect exactly because they are too uniform. But you can use them as a base and then paint over them.
@TyaStarcraft: Go Those aren't good examples, because they were taken fro Blizzard's achievements. There are a few in other packs that were made by me though, and they were all painted manually, or over a Stroke effect.