The random nerdy interests of a random nerdy person
What is a gradient map? It’s an adjustment layer that converts the tones of your image to the whatever gradient you have. You don’t have to work with grayscale images. While you can use gradient maps to color-correct and make adjustments, we’re going use it to make stuff funky.
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If there’s a word balloon in the section you want to make into an icon, you have a few options: you can remove it, you can remove the text, or you can just leave it as is. The last one is usually not a great option, because often the text is too small to read (or there’s just way too much text). I’ll show two ways to include the text or balloon in a later tutorial. Today, we’re going to cover removing it.
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I’m going to be doing some icon/avatar tutorials, but this one works for any graphics.
Have you ever been stuck behind a truck with a wrap with a super busy background and looked at it thinking, “hope you have good word of mouth, because that phone number is impossible to read”? (this may be an ailment limited to graphic designers) How to keep that from happening with graphics you make? CHUNKY TEXT OUTLINES.
I’ve done literally hundreds of banners for RainbowLists / RainbowFic and I’ve used this trick for every one. Here’s the most basic form:
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