This icon was made in Photoshop CS2 but it should work in newer versions as well. Base images in this tutorial are not mine, but the textures are. If you found this tutorial useful, credit would be appreciated. However, credit is required if you are using my textures.
This tutorial will show you how to edit photographs of food into some very nice icons. In particular sashimi (since I have the cravings, hehe), but if you have a photograph of very deep coloured food, this will add a nice “heavenly” effect.
In order, credit for the images: Aesthetic Intoxication, MindlessDrew (Photobucket), Sam Lin, Culino Tests.
Please note that I will only be showing you how to make the first icon. The others are examples that can result from using the same textures, but with different brushes, blending modes and opacity.
Start by pasting your image onto a new canvas. Crop and resize so that your image is 100 by 100 pixels.
Any grey grungy texture should work for this step but you can also use the one I’ve created just for this icon. Set the blending options to Soft Light at 100% opacity. You can do this by double-clicking the layer preview in the side panel, or going to Layer > Layer Style > Blending options.
It looks a bit brighter but we can do better. The following step uses this texture from my textures page. Paste it onto a new layer and set the blending options to Soft Light at 100% opacity. If you need to, you can drag the texture around until you have a spot and effect you like.
As a final touch I’ve added tiny text to the top corner and reduced the opacity of that layer.
That was pretty simple, wasn’t it? now with the following icons, they use the same two textures, But opacities vary or I have added other textures or text to the icon. Have a fiddle and see how your icon turns out!
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