How to Make a Medium Sized Icon

Hello everyone! Haven't you always wanted a small/medium icon that you can play with to your liking? Well here's a tutorial on how to do it!

Step 1

Open up Gimp, Photoshop, Paint Tool Sai, Microsoft Paint, or whatever other editing/drawing program that you are comfortable using. For this I will be using Gimp 2. Now that it's open you should bring up a new drawing that's about 99 Length x 57 Width pixels. Your screen should look something like this (if you're using Gimp.)

Step 2

Now that you've got your template set us, you need to figure out what you want to make the icon of. For me I'm going to be using this image of Sally Williams, a horror character from Creepypasta.com. It's best that when choosing these images they have no background, and if they do have a background it's a 1 tone type of thing such as White, Grey, Black, Red, etc.

Step 3

So by now you've gotten your image selected and you've gotten your template ready, which means it's time to move onto the scheme of your icon. For me, I wanted to go with a light pink, sorta the same as her dress but a little darker. To do this, you click on the Paint Bucket, then the rectangle color swatch which will bring up a color picker. You pick the color you want to use and then fill the template with it. 

Step 4

The second to last step is that you need to press open, and open up your chosen image and select ALL. After you've selected all you need to paste it onto your template. It'll of course be too big but we will work on that in just a second. Now what you need to do is resize the image, for all the different programs it's of course different but for gimp it's the tool thats circled in yellow in the second image. After you click that proceed to step 5.

                                      

Step 5

Now that you gotten to this stage you need to click on the image and the stage in the image below will show up. Now just resize it to the size you want and you're done.

Final!