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willow_lives and she said she would appreciate a tutorial for this so here comes a mostly horrible tut! Whoo!So we are going to take two caps:
and
(both from rawr-caps)
and put em together to make this:
This is using Adobe Photoshop CS5. It should be transferable to earlier versions of Photoshop, and its most likely going to be able to be done in other programs.
So.
I'm not going to tell you how to do your own colouring or what not so lets assume you can do that on your own.
Colour your two caps and crop them down to size.
We want the width to be 100 px, but you can choose your own height.
Here I've done 70 px and 50 px. You want to make sure that there is overlap.
Open a new file that is 100x100 px. Move one of your caps over.
Move the other cap over. You are going to be cutting into one of the caps, it varies per icon or cap, but you should put whichever cap you are going to be cutting into on top.
Using the LASSO tool on straight lines (either right click the LASSO icon or press ctrl/shift L) select the area you are going to remove from your cap.
I don't always do this, sometimes I just feather at a straight edge.
In that case, just select (either with the WAND tool or the MARQUEE tool) the empty area above your top cap.
This is where you feather the selection. In your menu options you want to go to Select > Modify > Feather (on a mac that short form is FN + Shift + F6). Here I've chosen to feather by 1 pixel.
Once you've set up the feathering, you want to clear your selection a few times with delete.
I think I did it two or three times here. This creates a softer edge that overlaps with the cap layer below.
Play around with the heights of the layers until you like it the most.
Make sure that you don't move one too far apart or else you will see the base layer or transparency through the feathering.
And thats the final product!
Tra la la!
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