This tutorial will help you to create a smiley like the ones I make. This tutorial is for a basic smiley, to create more advanced shapes takes imagination and patience. Open a new document with these settings: Width: 150 Pixels Height: 150 Pixels Resolution: 72 Pixels/Inch Colour Mode: RGB Color 8-Bit Background Contents: Transparent Create a background for your smiley, a gradient usually works well. Use colours similar to the ones found in your smiley. For mine I've used the foreground colour #007EFF and the background colour #0030CA Drag a verticle gradient (hold shift while doing this) for your background. Next create a new layer (CTRL+Shift+N) and name it 'Circle'. Next choose the colour of your smiley, a slight gradient will be used here. I have chosen a foreground colour of #56AAFF and a background colour of #176DFC. Using the Elliptical Marquee Tool drag a circle out on this layer, to make it perfectally circular just hold shift while dragging. Now use the gradient tool to create a gradient for your smiley, I have done mine at a very slight angle. Now we are going to add an outline to the circle, go to Layer>Layer Style>Stroke and use these settings: Size: 4 px Position: Outside Blend Mode: Normal Opacity: 100% Fill Type: Colour Color: #000000 Now for the eyes, create a new layer named 'Eye' and using the Elliptical Marquee tool drag an oval shape inside the circle created on the layer below. Using white (#FFFFFF) and the paint bucket tool fill this selection with the foreground colour. Now hear to Layer>Layer Style>Stroke again and use these settings: Size: 3 px Position: Center Blend Mode: Normal Opacity: 100% Fill Type: Colour Color: #000000 Now simply duplicate this layer (CTRL+J) and position it next to the previous layer. Now for the pupils, create a new layer named 'Pupil' and use the Elliptical Marquee Tool to create a new selection inside the Eye area. Use the paint bucket tool and fill this with black (#000000). Duplicate the layer and place this layer inside the other eye shape. Create a new layer named 'Mouth' and using the Elliptical Marque Tool create a shape like the one below near the bottom of the smiley area. The set the Elliptical Marquee Tool as 'Subtract from Selection' (located at top left of PS window) Drag a selection that will subtract an area from your previous selection and leave you with a selected shape like the one below. Now using the paint bucket tool fill that selection with black. Now create a new layer named 'Hand'. Using the selection tool drag out a small circle near the bottom left of your smiley. Use the gradient tool and your original smiley circle layer colours to make a gradient for this selection. Now go to Layer>Layer Style> Stroke and use these settings. Size: 3 px Position: Center Blend Mode: Normal Opacity: 100% Fill Type: Colour Color: #000000 Now duplicate this layer and place on the other side of the smiley's body. You are now finished. I hope you have fun making your smileys - maybe show us your creations! (I will post user submitted smileys on my site for display as well if you want) (Tutorial also located here.)
Nice tutorial, but unlike the same tutorial you gave an alternate link for this one doesn't say what program you're using to create the smileys; You probably just overlooked this little fact, I hope I didn't come across a smart*ss pointing you on this. If I did, sorry for that then........ Greetings.
