I recently posted a batch of Final Fantasy: Advent Children icons and someone asked me for a tutorial for one of the styles I used, so here it is for everyone. Please don't copy it exactly, remember if you take any textures/gradients/brushes from this tutorial to credit the appropriate maker and visit their journals to check out their other work! This tutorial assumes you have basic knowledge of Photoshop 7.0.

This is the icon we'll be making:


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