Working On Revulsion Icons

Hello everyone!

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So, I spent last night working on some more item icons for Revulsion, but when we added them to the game, we realized they were darker and more blurry. I had no idea why. I used all the same settings I had used for the other ones. I thought about it, and realized that Photoshop had had an update recently, and figured it might have to do with that.

It did.

I messed around until I finally figured out what was causing it. It turns out that I have to rasterize the layers now, before shrinking the image size. Lucky for me, this didn't add much to the process.

This is what the old icons look like:

This is what the new icons ended up looking like. Ew. Look how blurry it is...

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Here is the process I use to make the icons. The images are first rendered out from the MagicaVoxel items.

Next, I import the image of the item on top of the pre-made background.

I rotate it at an angle, and resize it as needed. Then, I add the poster edges effect.

After adding poster edges from the filter gallery, I add an outer glow to make the image pop.

Now, here is the step that I had to add, thanks to the Photoshop update... rasterizing the effect layers.

Lastly, after it has been rasterized, I resize the image to 128x128, which is the icon size used in Revulsion.

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The new icon looks like the old ones now! Yay!

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Revulsion is nearing release. Keep an eye on it by following @thecastle, liking the Facebook page, or searching the Revulsion tag here on Steemit!