Ellipsis/Icons: kinda like Dean/Sam

9 x Battlestar Galactica Wallpapers

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:14:09 GMT

9 x Battlestar Galactica (2003) 1280*800 Wallpapers (mostly Lee/Kara, 1 x Kara, 1 x Kara/Sam, 1 x Six/Baltar). Uses S4 promo pics and caps up to 4.04.

Program: PSP9.
Textures: dearest, loveicon, crisscross_icon, piemin, ohfreckle, yours truly.
Ask: about textures, fonts, caps, colour-effects, or anything else, and if I can, I'll help you out.

Tease:

1. 1280*800	2. 1280*800	3. 1280*800
4. 1280*800¹ // No Text	5. 1280*800	6. 1280*800²
7. 1280*800 // No text	8. 1280*800³ // Less Text	9. 1280*800

¹ Text from "The Year of Driving Languorously" by The Lucksmiths
² Text from "Stone Walls do not a Prison Make" by Richard Lovelace
³ Text from "Pierrot the Clown" by Placebo

Previous BSG Posts:

56 x Misc. Battlestar Galactica

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:17:04 GMT

42 x Battlestar Galactica (2003) Miniseries.
14 x Misc. Battlestar Galactica, up to s4 promo images.
(Shut up, I am not pathetically addicted.)

Program: PSP9.
Textures: dearest, frakking_icons, _lookslikerain, proicons, sanami_276, yours truly.
Caps: Crystal Fires Cap Archives
Ask: about textures, caps, colour-effects, or anything else, and if I can, I'll help you out.

Tease:

---Look, I iconned someone other than Kara and/or Lee!

1.	2.	3.	4.
5.	6.	7.	8.
9.	10.	11.	12.
13.	14.	15.	16.
17.	18.	19.	20.
21.	22.	23.	24.
25.	26.	27.	28.
29.	30.	31.	32.
33.	34.	35.	36.
37.	38.	39.	40.
41.	42.	43.	44.
45.	46.	47.	48.
49.	50.	51.	52.
53.	54.	55.	56.

Battlestar Galactica (Wallpapers & Icons)

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:00:50 GMT

8 x Battlestar Galactica (2003) 1280*800 Wallpapers (mostly Lee/Kara, some Kara).
48 x Battlestar Galactica (2003) Icons (quite a lot of Lee/Kara, some Kara, a few Lee).

Program: PSP9.
Textures: dearest, yours truly.
Caps: Crystal Fires Cap Archives
Ask: about textures, caps, colour-effects, or anything else, and if I can, I'll help you out.

Wallpapers

Tease:

1. 1280*800	2. 1280*800 // No text
3. 1280*800	4. 1280*800
5. 1280*800 // No text	6. 1280*800
7. 1280*800 // No text	8. 1280*800

(Previous BSG wallpaper post)

Icons

Tease:

---In roughly episode order, starting from the miniseries and hop-skip-jumping all the way to "Maelstrom". Some icons shamelessly (shamelessly, I say!) cropped from the wallpapers.

1.	2.	3.	4.
5.	6.	7.	8.
9.	10.	11.	12.
13.	14.	15.	16.
17.	18.	19.	20.
21.	22.	23.	24.
25.	26.	27.	28.
29.	30.	31.	32.
33.	34.	35.	36.
37.	38.	39.	40.
41.	42.	43.	44.
45.	46.	47.	48.

24 x Doctor Who (Voyage of the Damned)

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:07:00 GMT

24 x Doctor Who (Voyage of the Damned).

Program: PSP9.
Textures: dearest & trash_icons.
Caps: yours truly.
Ask: about textures, caps, colour-effects, or anything else, and if I can, I'll help you out.
Commenting optional; credit compulsory.

Tease:

Doctor Who 4x00 "Voyage of the Damned"

1.	2.	3.	4.
5.	6.	7.	8.
9.	10.	11.	12.
13.	14.	15.	16.
17.	18.	19.	20.
21.	22.	23.	24.

13 x BSG WPs

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:19:25 GMT

13 x Battlestar Galactica (2003) 1280*800 Wallpapers (Mostly Lee/Kara, some Kara or Kara/Leoben).

Program: PSP9. *is a luddite*
Textures: dearest.
Caps: Crystal Fires Cap Archives
Text: Some Richard Lovelace (8, 9, 13), some random.
Ask: about textures, caps, colour-effects, or anything else, and if I can, I'll help you out.

Tease:

1. 1280*800	2. 1280*800	3. 1280*800
4. 1280*800	5. 1280*800	6. 1280*800
7. 1280*800	8. 1280*800	9. 1280*800 // No text
10. 1280*800	11. 1280*800	12. 1280*800
13. 1280*800

EDIT: I forgot to add that I still have the layers for these WPs, so if there's one you like but just wish I'd tweaked something/added some specific text/whatever, or you want a tutorial for it, feel free to ask. :D

78 x Supernatural.

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:10:10 GMT

78 x Supernatural.

Program: PSP9. *is a luddite*
Textures: dearest & trash_icons.
Caps: marishna & yours truly.
Ask: about textures, caps, colour-effects, or anything else, and if I can, I'll help you out.
Commenting optional; credit compulsory.

Tease:

Season 3

1.	2.	3.	4.
5.	6.	7.	8.
9.	10.	11.	12.
13.	14.	15.	16.
17.	18.	19.	20.
21.	22.	23.	24.
25.	26.	27.	28.
29.	30.	31.	32.
33.	34.	35.	36.
37.	38.	39.	40.
41.	42.	43.	44.

Season 2

45.	46.	47.	48.
49.	50.	51.	52.
53.	54.	55.	56.
57.	58.	59.	60.
61.	62.	63.	64.
65.	66.	67.	68.
69.	70.	71.	72.
73.	74.	75.	76.
77.	78.

52 x Supernatural

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:42:34 GMT

56 x Supernatural.

INFO, RULES, & RESOURCES live over thisaway at the USERINFO.

Tease:

Please don't customise these. If you want one of the styles with a different picture, leave me the picture and I'll do it for you. Also, if you want text, drop a comment with the text and I'll add it. Ta.
BRIGHT	RAIN	COLOURBLIND	BEER-STAINED
1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8
13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28
29	30	31	32
33	34	35	36
37	38	39	40
41	42	43	44
45	46	47	48
49	50	51	52
53	54	55	56

Supernatural

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:33:43 GMT

96 x Supernatural.

INFO, RULES, & RESOURCES live over thisaway at the USERINFO.

Tease:

From: various episodes, including up to 2.05, and s2 promo pics. I basically make icons for me (yes, I know, 96 of 'em headdesk) and then throw them up here, so they're in completely random order, from completely random caps/pics, and there are a lot of Michael, the kid from Something Wicked (1.18) because he is a cutie.
ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN	EIGHTEEN	NINETEEN	TWENTY
TWENTY ONE	TWENTY TWO	TWENTY THREE	TWENTY FOUR
TWENTY FIVE	TWENTY SIX	TWENTY SEVEN	TWENTY EIGHT
TWENTY NINE	THIRTY	THIRTY ONE	THIRTY TWO
THIRTY THREE	THIRTY FOUR	THIRTY FIVE	THIRTY SIX
THIRTY SEVEN	THIRTY EIGHT	THIRTY NINE	FORTY
FORTY ONE	FORTY TWO	FORTY THREE	FORTY FOUR
FORTY FIVE	FORTY SIX	FORTY SEVEN	FORTY EIGHT
FORTY NINE	FIFTY	FIFTY ONE	FIFTY TWO
FIFTY THREE	FIFTY FOUR	FIFTY FIVE	FIFTY SIX
FORTY SEVEN	FIFTY EIGHT	FIFTY NINE	SIXTY
SIXTY ONE	SIXTY TWO	SIXTY THREE	SIXTY FOUR
SIXTY FIVE	SIXTY SIX	SIXTY SEVEN	SIXTY EIGHT
SIXTY NINE	SEVENTY	SEVENTY ONE	SEVENTY TWO
SEVENTY THREE	SEVENTY FOUR	SEVENTY FIVE	SEVENTY SIX
SEVENTY SEVEN	SEVENTY EIGHT	SEVENTY NINE	EIGHTY
EIGHTY ONE	EIGHTY TWO	EIGHTY THREE	EIGHTY FOUR
EIGHTY FIVE	EIGHTY SIX	EIGHTY SEVEN	EIGHTY EIGHT
EIGHTY NINE	NINETY	NINETY ONE	NINETY TWO
NINETY THREE	NINETY FOUR	NINETY FIVE	NINETY SIX

Brohoyay = broyay (brothers, yay!) + hoyay (homoeroticism, yay!).

Huge shout-out to dearest for all the prettifying patterns used in this post.

Supernatural

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 04:59:01 GMT

24 x Supernatural (incl. 2 x Jensen Ackles)

INFO, RULES, & RESOURCES live over thisaway at the USERINFO.

Tease:

From: various episodes + promo pics
ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN	EIGHTEEN	NINETEEN	TWENTY
TWENTY ONE	TWENTY TWO	TWENTY THREE	TWENTY FOUR

Supernatural, Dark Angel.

Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:29:08 GMT

26 x Supernatural for abc_icons.
14 x Supernatural miscellaneous.
3 x Supernatural wallpapers.
47 x Dark Angel miscellaneous, primarily Alec.

Yarr, it be a Jensen Ackles overload. I can't help it; he just pulls focus. *whine* I actually came to Supernatural via Dark Angel, and if I hadn't loved Jensen in DA, I wouldn't have bothered to watch Supernatural, because the trailers? They were trash. I thought the show looked absolutely ridiculous. But then I watched it and BWAH. So I owe a lot to Dark Angel and wee!Jensen.

INFO, RULES, & RESOURCES live over thisaway at the USERINFO.

Tease:

From: various episodes. CraftyMonkie is my screencap dealer. ♥
A	B	C	D
E	F	G	H
I	J	K	L
M	N	O	P
Q	R	S	T
U	V	W	X
Y	Z*	1	2
3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14
Wallpapers- 1024x768, click to view fullsize.

*Regarding Z for Zombie: way back when I did the A to Z of Keira Knightley, I did them roughly in order, which brought me to Z at an indecently late hour one evening. Being desperate for bed, I just did Z for Zombie out of sheer randomness. So, now faced with a Supernatural A to Z, what presents itself to my mind as the perfect Z? Zombie! Hey, at least it's slightly more appripriate for Supernatural** than Keira Knightley!

**Okay, yes, I know, it's still completely inappropriate. But OTOH, isn't Zombie!Dean adorable? *distracts you*

From: various episodes. Caps by yours truly. ♥
15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30
31	32	33	34
35	36	37	38
39	40	41	42
43	44	45	46
47	48	49	50
51	52	53	54
55	56	57	58
59	60	61	62

Supernatural, Doctor Who, Prison Break.

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:51:01 GMT

24 x Supernatural
16 x Doctor Who
20 x Prison Break

INFO, RULES, & RESOURCES live over thisaway at the USERINFO.

Tease:

From: various episodes. CraftyMonkie is my screencap dealer. ♥
ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN	EIGHTEEN	NINETEEN	TWENTY
TWENTY ONE	TWENTY TWO	TWENTY THREE	TWENTY FOUR

From: "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday." I mourn through icons. :( Oh, also, "The Christmas Invasion" and "School Reunion."
ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN

From: various episodes.
ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN	EIGHTEEN	NINETEEN	TWENTY

Supernaural, Firefly, Doctor Who.

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:18:18 GMT

28 x Firefly ("Our Mrs Reynolds," "Ariel," and "Trash")
24 x Doctor Who ("The Girl in the Fireplace" and "The Idiot's Lantern")
24 x Supernatural ("Bloody Mary" and "Devil's Trap")

Heavens to Betsy, I never thought I'd use this journal again. All my pic servers went down, and the thought of fixing ALL THOSE broken icons and resources and banners and... and... etc, made me want to scream and hide in a corner. So I just ignored it. BUT! I have now fixed them all up, and I come bearing TV show icons!

I haven't actually iconed in a long time, so I'm easing myself back in, which is why these icons are mostly about colours and pictures rather than trippy effects and words. And, to be honest, the pics spoke so well for themselves, I couldn't think if any words to put on them that didn't ruin them. ♥

INFO, RULES, & RESOURCES live over thisaway at the USERINFO.

Tease:

From: "Our Mrs Reynolds," "Ariel," and "Trash". Also, I love Saffron. And Inara. And in conclusion: Mal/Inara sounds like marinara. Mm, shippy AND delicious.
ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN	EIGHTEEN	NINETEEN	TWENTY
TWENTY ONE	TWENTY TWO	TWENTY THREE	TWENTY FOUR
TWENTY FIVE	TWENTY SIX	TWENTY SEVEN	TWENTY EIGHT

From: "The Girl in the Fireplace" and "The Idiot's Lantern". Unabashed Doctor/Reinette shipper checking in!
ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN	EIGHTEEN	NINETEEN	TWENTY
TWENTY ONE	TWENTY TWO	TWENTY THREE	TWENTY FOUR

From: "Bloody Mary" and "Devil's Trap". "Devil's Trap" is the finale, and the images are pretty much mixed in with the "Bloody Mary" ones, and some of them are spoilery. So, if you haven't seen "Devil's Trap" and don't want to be utterly spoiled, please to be not looking at the icons. Oh, also, I'm a liitle prone to Wincest. Fair warning. >_>
ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN	EIGHTEEN	NINETEEN	TWENTY
TWENTY ONE	TWENTY TWO	TWENTY THREE	TWENTY FOUR

Dog's Breakfast

Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:24:57 GMT

44 x Dog's Breakfast (very assorted, incl. actors, disney, hp... lots of contest entries)

A dog's breakfast is basically an utterly disorganised icon dump. I raided my icon folder, found every icon I hadn't ever posted, and listed them in the order I found them. The result? Something bordering on nicely presented anarchy. Hover over icon to see what the subject is.

INFO, RULES, & RESOURCES live over thisaway at the USERINFO.

Tease:

ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN	EIGHTEEN	NINETEEN	TWENTY
TWENTY ONE	TWENTY TWO	TWENTY THREE	TWENTY FOUR
TWENTY FIVE	TWENTY SIX	TWENTY SEVEN	TWENTY EIGHT
TWENTY NINE	THIRTY	THIRTY ONE	THIRTY TWO
THIRTY THREE	THIRTY FOUR	THIRTY FIVE	THIRTY SIX
THIRTY SEVEN	THIRTY EIGHT	THIRTY NINE	FORTY
*FORTY ONE	*FORTY TWO	*FORTY THREE	*FORTY FOUR

*41-44 are using my own art. i figured it was a while since I indulged my inner narcissist and made art!icons, so there. Double important that you credit these. Otherwise I'll be very :(!

Oh, and request tutorials! I might actually do 'em!

Resource post. Fun textures. :D

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:04:24 GMT

Patterns various. About 40. INCL demos.

Tease:

Well, as usual, I'll give you a demo to consider if you decide to take the textures. This is our demo this week. It's Romola Garai and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers looking quite contented as Amelia and George in Vanity Fair.

+ + =
(Just in case anyone is curious about how I prepped the base. ~_~;)

And now, the textures! These were cropped from bigger styles I used on a couple of the sets in my previous post.

The blend mode and opacity are (uh obviously ^^;) shown on the demo icon beside it.





































(these next ones are from a few of the icons in my ABC of Keira Knightley set. For a couple of them I couldn't pick my favourite blend, and I wanted to show the texture on the original icon.)


I know it seems petty of me, but if you do decide to use these, or derive some benefit from them, please credit. I don't chase people who don't credit, but every time someone uses something I've made and doesn't credit me, I get less inclined to share. Especially with things like these resources. Nothing is making me share these resources, or go to so much trouble to show how they're used. It's kinda depressing not being credited for my hard work. *shrugs*

Harry Potter, Disney.

Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:39:01 GMT

24 x Harry Potter (mostly GoF promos).
16 x Various Disney

INFO, RULES, & RESOURCES live over thisaway at the USERINFO.

Tease:

ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN	SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN	EIGHTEEN	NINETEEN	TWENTY
TWENTY ONE	TWENTY TWO	TWENTY THREE	TWENTY FOUR

ONE	TWO	THREE	FOUR
FIVE	SIX	SEVEN	EIGHT
NINE	TEN	ELEVEN	TWELVE
THIRTEEN	FOURTEEN	FIFTEEN (US)	SIXTEEN

Headers, friends-only banners, and icon sets.

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 05:13:09 GMT

Sets
2 x Keira Knightley
2 x Johnny Depp
1 x Hayden Christiansen
1 x Jonny Rhys-Meyers
1 x Emmy Rossum
1 x Hugh Dancy

Each set contains: 1 x Header, 1 x Friends-only banner, 3 x icons. Some have backgrounds.

It is not actually recommended in most cases that one uses both the header & the f-only banner, since they're generally practically identical; however, feel free! In fact, as much or as little as you want from each of the sets. The links take you to a webpage where the set is displayed with some info.

Check the RULES before taking anything or asking me a question.
♥ Comment,
♥ Credit,
♥ Don't hotlink.
♥ With my consent, headers can be customised to include an LJ name only. No other customising, please.

Cheers!

Tease:

Keira Knightley
Eve and the Apple -->CLICK HERE<--	Where do we go from here? -->CLICK HERE<--
________________________________________ Johnny Depp
The Faces Of -->CLICK HERE<--	Would you smile? -->CLICK HERE<--
________________________________________
Hayden Christiansen A Bit of You -->CLICK HERE<--	Jonathan Rhys-Meyers Smoking is a Health Hazard -->CLICK HERE<--
________________________________________
Emmy Rossum Quand Vous Mourez Des Nos Amours -->CLICK HERE<--	Hugh Dancy We are the Music Makers -->CLICK HERE<--

What to do with them:
The short story of what you have to do to enable a header is this:

Make sure your journal is uysing S1, not S2. Go to the Modify Journal page (which can be reached via Customise journal). Scroll down to the overrides box. C&P this code into the textbox:


GLOBAL_HEAD<=
<style type="text/css"> 
<!-- 
body { 
background-image: url(*****) !important; 
background-attachment:fixed;
background-position: ?????;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
padding-top: #####;
}
-->
</style>

background-image: HEADER IMAGE URL HERE--no hotlinking, remember :( Upload it to Photobucket or ImageShack if you're stuck.
background position: replace ????? top left, top right, top center, depending on where your content is aligned.
padding-top: replace ##### with the height in px of the banner (i've supplied this in the info for each set).

This is the absolute simplest way of getting a header image. You can't have a header image + a background using this method. If you have a paid account or are feeling a bit ambitious, I suggest hitting the comms like lj_style and s2styles, as well as howto and s2howto.

This is a graphic journal not an LJ support journal, and my ability to explain these things was exhausted up there with the code. If that doesn't help you, you'll have to hit the comms, I'm afraid. ^_^;;;

The A-Z of Keira Knightley

Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:15:26 GMT

Hi, long time no icon post. ~_~ I was destroyed by exams for a few weeks and it's taken me a little while to get back into my stride. I have a bunch of icons and banners to post at some point, but until then...

For abc_icons... I present, the A to Z of Keira Knightley.

INFO, RULES, & RESOURCES live over thisaway at the USERINFO.

Tease:

(No, I don't know what possessed me to do Z for Zombie. In my defense, I'm really tired. ._.;;)

Sat, 18 Jun 2005 10:17:32 GMT

As requested, a tutorial for this effect:

NOTE: If you're in Internet Explorer some of the images don't show up. I have no idea why this is. It has me flummoxed. Switch to Firefox. It's a better browser anyway. :D

ETA: If the images aren't showing up, you can view the tutorial HERE. It ain't pretty, but it works. I think.

When last I checked, the Emmy icon was destroying the others on the poll, so here it is. This isn't actually the order in which I made the icon, so it may seem like there are jumps being made, but it'll make much more sense than if I tried to reconstruct it in order.

This tutorial is for:

♥ PSP9 (but very translateable if you know your program).

♥ Moderate ability (nothing particularly complex, so as before, if you don't know how to do something I describe, go back to icon_tutorial and raid the memories).

Layer 1 (Background): This is my base layer. As you can see, I've gone through the base prep motions, crop, sharpen, resize, etc. I've also blurred the stone area to the left. That was a fairly late move chronologically, but it's like that because there'll be an image over that area later (FORE-SHA-DOW-ING). Either select the area with your marquee (make sure it's feathered) and do a blur filter, or just run your smudge/soften brush across it.

Layer 2: Duplicate the base layer twice. On the lower of the two, run a desaturate over it. DOn't make the image greyscale. You want to preserve some of the colour (Adjust > Hue and Saturation > Hue/Saturation/Lightness > Hue: 0 Saturation: -45 Lightness: 0).

Layer 3: This is your second base duplicate. Set it to Overlay, Opacity 50%.

Layer 4: Take this... texture? border? anyway thingo by me (though the pattern you cans ee around the edge of the black is from Squid Finges) and set it to Screen. The way this turned out on the image was a complete accident, but I really liked the effect.

Layer 5: Bear with me, I'll give you a progress report in a moment. :] The green part on this layer is actually transparent. As you can see, I've taken another picture of Emmy from the same photoshoot. I'm assuming nobody's following along with the same images, because if you are... I guess... you'd have to go and find the original pic this was from or something. o_o Anyway, I picked an almost-full body segment and cropped+resized it. Then I took the freehand marquee tool (with a feather of, oh, 5? 10? Not sure.) and deleted Little Emmy's arm where it was overlapping Big Emmy's head. I set the opacity of this layer to 50%.

Progress Report: So this is what the icon currently looks like. I think originally I was probably going to leave he icon something like this. :D

Layer 6: Now, duplicate your backgorund layer and drag it up to this position. Desaturate it completely to greyscale (I prefer to use Adjust > Hue and Saturation > Colorize with a Sat. of 0) and hit it with a brightness/contrast of 75/0. Know what? In my version it looks like this layer predates the blurring on the background layer. *shrugs* Which shows you what an odd order this icon was made in. Aaaaanyway, set it to Hard Light.

Layer 7: This is a bit of a weird one. It was originally one of the textures from this post (and before that it was a bunch of flowers, I think), and I've blurred the segment atop Big Emmy (as per Layer 1). This layer is set on Overlay 50% Opacity.

Progress Report: This is basically it as far as the graphics on the icon goes. I just added text with a white box behind it. I want to share with you a neat effect I got while fooling around though.

Layer 8: Take this texture and put it on a layer above all the others. I've also turned Layer 4 off. Now set Layer 8 to Dodge, 100% Opacity.

Progress Report: Isn't it a neat look? I've been meaning to experiment with it more.

Anyway, that's your tutorial. Not as exciting or groundbreaking as it could have been, eh? Maybe you should have voted for a different icon. :P

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 06:52:26 GMT

As requested, a tutorial for this effect:

Today I have decided to work with this image to my left. It's Keira Knightley, as are a disproportionate number of my tutorials. She just does such lovely photoshoots.

This tutorial is for:

♥ PSP9 (but very translateable if you know your program).

♥ Moderate ability (nothing particularly complex, so if you don't know how to do something I describe, go back to icon_tutorial and raid the memories).

♥ Black and white images. Colour images won't work properly, so if you have a colour image, hit it with Adjust > Hue and Saturation > Colorize (my preference) > Hue: Whatever you like, Saturation: 0. You may also want to hit it with a Brightness/Contrast at about 30/30.

If the images aren't showing up, you can view the tutorial HERE. It ain't pretty, but it works. I think.

Duplicate that honey pie and set the upper one to Soft Light (100%).

Whack this gradient (by yours truly) between the two image layers set on Overlay (100%). You may also want to hit it with a Gaussian Blur (radius: 4) to smooth out any compression issues.

Merge the three layers (merge visible, preferably). I know this may go against the grain, but you're going to need to duplicate them en masse later, so they need to be merged and you may as well get it over with.

Create a new raster layer above your newly merged image and whack this texture (yes, by yours truly) onto it. Set it to Screen (100%--heck, unless I say so, all them layers are at 100%, y'hear?).

New raster layer, whack this border on and for the love of God delete the green bit. Set it to 50%.

Now, duplicate your merged layer and drag it above the previous two layers. Set it to Soft Light. This is what your icon should thus far be looking like.

Another rater layer, another texture (mine!). Set this little beauty to Difference.

Now, on the original Matinee Idol icon, I had a blue layer on OVerlay here. As you can see, it looks a bit whack on Cowgirl!Keira. However, if your icon can handle it, anything from #141542 (dark) to #3e3f72 (lighter) would have a neat effect on the background colouring.

Second border layer. Delete the green bit (oh please, delete the green bit *tear*), set it to 60%.

And there you have it! Do your crazy text thing, and you'll have an orfully cool icon.

Oh, and you should all check out the layouts at ellipsisicons (oh wait you're viewing it right now) and ellipsisblack, because they're pretty.

More Resources: Borders, Textures, Gradients.

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:35:39 GMT

Textures, Borders, & Gradients (INCL Zip files & examples).

For all image programs. It's just save & go (they're all saved as .pngs).

Tease:

I use a lot of these resources in THIS icon post, so if you'd like to see 'em in action, head thataway; also, I'm offering (for a limited time only) to produce a tute on selected icons in that post, so you should go have a look and pick which you'd like a tutorial for. :]

Textures

For each one of these Textures, I had a little experiment and found my personal favourite blending effect, just so you can see it in action.

^ The first demo is on Screen; the second on Multiply. In the former, there's a duplicate of the base image set to Soft Light over the top.

^ Again, this demo is set on Screen, and there's a Hard Light duplicate over the top.

^ As with most of the predominantly black textures, this one works best set to Screen. The demo also has a Soft Light duplicate of the base over the top. I actually got some fun effects with the texture set to Hard Light, Multiply, and Burn, with the duplicate image set to Screen above it.

^ This one, I actually liked best on Dodge (with the by now ubiquitous Soft Light duplicate above it). Although it also works on Screen.

^ With these four (all on Overlay) it should be noted that it's best to blur the segment above the focus of the image (which I haven't done). Otherwise, the overlaying interferes with the image too much. I have screened the background image a few times to lighten it, and there's a Soft Light duplicate over the texture layer in all but the second-last example.

^ With these four just whack 'em on Screen--though in certain circumstances they looked pretty hot on Multiply, Dodge, and Soft Light, and away you go. Some of them will look better on lighter images; some on dark.

^ Screen this mofo. :>

^ These two are basically the same texture, except the first is best on Hard Light, and the second on Screen.

^ Screen or Hard Light this baby (it's Screened in the demo).

^This one is actually designed to be used on Difference. In certain images it'll give a near, blood-like effect. It's better if the area above the main image segment is black.

^Hard Light!

^Hard Light also!

Borders
==>

Unless noted, these were all blended on Screen mode in the demos.

^ Yes, I did mirror the texture in the example.

^ In certain icons, this one actually looks pretty cool on Multiply as well. It's incorporating a texture from SquidFingers.Com.

^The latter two need to be set on Multiply, not Screen.

Gradients

Unless noted, these were all blended on Overlay mode in the demos. I have found that overlay gradients work best on black & white images, but they're fun on colour too, you just have to do more tweaking.

^ Difference

^ Difference

^ Hard Light

^ Hard Light

^ Hard Light

^ Screen

^ Screen

^ Hard Light

^ Hard Light

^ Hard Light

^ Hard Light

47 Icons: Actresses, Actors, Disney, PnP, Potter.

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:15:24 GMT

14 x Actresses (Keira Knightley, Emmy Rossum, Romola Garai).
12 x Actors (Johnny Depp, Hayden Christiansen, Hugh Dancy, Ralph Fiennes, Orlando Bloom, Naveen Andrews).
12 x Disney (Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid, Aladdin, the Lion King).
5 x Pride and Prejudice
4 x Potter
TOTAL: 47

*Any icons with an asterisk, I'm offering to make a tutorial of, so if you'd like to see how it's done, just drop a comment requesting a tutorial of that icon, and if enough people request, then I'll do one! (the ones I'm offering are determined by whether I've saved the layers or not.)

Check the RULES before taking an icon or asking me a question.
♥ Comment,
♥ Credit,
♥ Don't Customise or Hotlink.

Cheers!

Tease:

1. Actresses
1.1* 1.2 1.3 1.4
1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8
1.9 1.10 1.11*
1.12* 1.13 1.14*

2. Actors
2.1 2.2 2.3* 2.4
2.5 2.6 2.7* 2.8
2.9 2.10 2.11
2.12

3. Disney
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4*
3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
3.9 3.10 3.11
3.12

4. Pride & Prejudice
4.1* 4.2 4.3 4.4
4.5

5. Potter
5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4

Icons! Potter, Narnia, Actresses, Hitch Hiker's Guide, More!

Fri, 27 May 2005 11:28:36 GMT

Sorry, some of these are reposts. I wanted a slightly more organised post.

Randomly, check out ellipsisicons (& userinfo)--new layout.

24 x Harry Potter (+Invictus Poemset)
8 x Chronicles of Narnia
5 x Keira Knightley
6 x HHG Quotes
7 x Stock Image Icons
4 x Rufus Wainwright
7 x PREPARE TO DIE
3 x Random (Rachel Bilson, Ralph Fiennes, Natalie Portman)
TOTAL: 64

Check the RULES before taking an icon or asking me a question.
♥ Comment,
♥ Credit,
♥ Don't Customise or Hotlink.

Cheers!

Tease:

1. HP (Mainly Hermione):
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8
Invictus Poemset-- Full poem can be read here.
1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12
1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16
1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20
1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24

2. Chronicles of Narnia
2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4
2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8

3. Keira Knightley (& Pride and Prejudice)
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4
3.5

4. Hitch Hiker's Guide:
4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4
4.5 5.6

5. Various Stock Images (thank you Tony Stone):
5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4
5.5 5.6 5.7

6. Rufus Wainwright:
6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4

7. Prepare to Die (yoinked from the Princess Bride >_>):
7.1 7.2

(These are the blank ones. The font I used on the ones bloew was Bitchcakes, fyi. Feel free to customise the Prepare to Die series to your heart's content.)

7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6
7.7

8. Random :
8.1 8.1 8.1

Randomly: IT'S NOT A FAKE LJ CUT UNLESS IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE AN LJ CUT. That means, it looks like this: ( Follow the Fake LJ Cut ). Annoys me, man, when people call their link a fake LJ cut when it doesn't actually look like an LJ cut. :/

Mummachukka big resource post.

Thu, 26 May 2005 02:55:19 GMT

Massive resource post. All of my own gradients & patterns I've been using recently.

For all image programs. It's just save & go around here.

Patterns
--Kaleidoscope
Ref:

Recommendations: Don't have these patterns cover the main part of the image. They can be blended on any of the blend modes, depending on what effect you're interested in. You can play around with the colorize, & H/S/L functions to get different colour combos.

--Rain (Stock Images - TonyStone)
Ref:

Recommendations: Often the part of the pattern over the main part of the image will need to be smoothed out. These blend well on Hard Light & Screen modes.

--Border Patterns
The first example each time is set on Multiply; the second on Screen. I haven't modified the image or patterns at all, so sometimes an important part of the image is blocked. Obviously when making serious icons this could be avoided.

Recommendations: I'd use these fairly low in the layer heirarchy, and put various gradients, patterns, and so forth above them. Possibly with the screened ones, I'd put another image inside the white portion.</td></tr>
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Gradients
I've been using a lot of these circular gradients lately. They're awfully good fun. The blend mode used in the example is supplied in brackets.
--Colour Gradients
(Hard Light)
(Overlay)
(Screen)
(Multiply)
(Hard Light)
(Screen)
(Hard Light)
(Hard Light)
(Hard Light)
(Screen)
(Hard Light)
(Multiply)
(Screen)
(Hard Light)

Recommendations: Again, a lot can be done with these guys by messing with the colorisation & the H/S/L, and by rotating them around. Also, it's a good idea to use a Gaussian Blur on them to smooth out any compression roughness.</table>

So, go crazy. I don't expect credit for these, but, of course, a link somewhere would be lovely.

Tutorial, or, How I Prepare My Bases.

Thu, 19 May 2005 00:08:03 GMT

<td bgcolor="" valign="top" width="499">Well, this isn't so much a tutorial, as just my personal slant on base preparation. I hopped on my high horse a few weeks ago and said it was a good base that made an icon, not fancy effects. So, here's my take on a 'good' base. This tutorial is for PSP7 (all the stuff in brackets is the PSP7 technical direction), but it's all baby techniques, and I'm pretty sure there's a PSP8+ & Photoshop5+ equivalent for everything. If you know your program, it'll translate.

^Our beginning picture. The beauteous Keira Knightley, looking even more beauteous than usual. Oh, and excuse my typos. My fingers are cold, and I'm not an Olympic Gold typist at the best of times.

So, to get to this point, I've rotated my picture to the right by 20 degrees (Image > Rotate) and Unsharped Mask (Effects > Sharpen > Radius: 4.00, Strength: 37, Clipping: 0). I rotated the picture because blank space for text was going to be a problem otherwise. Often I don't bother oif the image is okay as it is, but rotating can give an interesting new slant to an image, especially if it's one that 7496254056 people have used already (GoF promo pics, anyone?). It's better to sharpen your pic before you resize it, because then the resize smooths out any over-sharp edges. If it's an especially weak base image, then I'll Unsharp Mask before resizing and Sharpen after resizing to get a nice crispness.

Now I've resized the image to 100x100. I've also duplicated the layer twice (On layer palette, right-click over the layer > Duplicate) and set the lower one to Screen and the upper to Soft Light (On the layer palette, click where it says 'Normal' and a menu will pop up). Unless the image is too dark already, I'll just about always have a Screen & a Soft Light layer.

Okay, now we're going to prep the Screen layer. Make sure it's selected (In the Layer Palette, just click on the layer--it'll probably be called Copy of Background), then adjust the Brightness/Contrast so it's dark and contrasty (Colors > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast. Brightness: -40, Contrast: 40). After that, desaturate it so it's not quite greyscale (Colors > Adjust > Hue/Saturation/Lightness. Hue: 0, Saturation: -30, Lightness: 0). As in the image to the right, it'll look pretty funny on Normal mode.

Now, to prep the Soft Light layer. Make sure it's selected, then colorize it to a nice blue (Colors > Colorize. Hue: 130, Saturation: 40).

Create a new layer Between your Screen layer and your Soft Light layer. There's a few things you can do with this layer. I often use some sort of dark blue (#141542, or #102942) on Exclusion, or a middling brown (like #645030) on Screen, or a light, medium-saturation colour (#EAD796, #CCC881, or #E9C3CD, for example) on Multiply. It depends on the image and the mood. This time I'm going for a kinda moonlit night feel, so I'm using the gradient to the right, set on Multiply. For the curious, the gradient is blue (#8E90BA) to light gray (#E1DEDB), using a foreground-background gradient set on circle (click on the arrow beside your foreground colour--which should be the blue--and select the second option. Then click on your foreground colour box, which should not be a gradient of some sort. Click on the downwards-arrow beside the big square box to the left, and select "#1 Foreground-Background". THen go to the Style settings at the side of the pop-up box and select the third one down. Finally, there should be a cursor-type thing in the box that shows your gradient. Drag it to the right edge.)

Phew. That's the base done, with a nice moonlighty glow. Then, of course, I had a festival with other effects & gradients and made that icon you saw at the beginning of the tutorial. Oh, and I never merge the base layers, because a lot of the patterny, gradienty action happens under the Soft Light layer.

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Sun, 03 Apr 2005 02:32:58 GMT

*has spasm* I have been waiting so long to make this post, but there were a few contest entries I needed to wait on to make the whole thing perfect.

Yes, it takes a special kind of personality to fixate over having a whole icon post be in multiples of four.

Without further ado:

1. Harry Potter: 20
2. Beauty and the Beast: 4
3. Actresses (Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Anne Hathaway): 8
4. Johnny Depp: 12
5. Goddesses: 8
6. Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 4
Total: 56

AND as always, please obey the RULES.

Tease:

1. Harry Potter
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8**
1.9** 1.10** 1.11 1.12
1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16
1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20

**1.8, 1.9, and 1.10 are bases, so you can take them and make icons from them if you like. Or just use them as they are.

2. Beauty and the Beast
2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4

3. Actresses (Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Anne Hathaway)
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4
3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8

4. Johnny Depp
4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4
4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8
4.9 4.10 4.11 4.12

5. Goddesses (Art by Jonathon Earl Bowser, credit should be given to him)
5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4
5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8

6. Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4

Warning: Rant Ahead

Okay, so maybe I'm a little conservative. In fact, I know I am. I don't use brushes (unless I'm feeling very lazy about borders), and I rarely use textures. But... I hate, I hate these new light textures that are sweeping the icon community. You know what I mean, they're a texture layer with a bunch of bright coloured/white areas and a black background, and you set them to Screen on the icon.

This is a classic example of somebody's really good idea taken by the masses and shat on. Although I have seen some outstanding icons with these textures, most of them are hideous, the colours are mismatched, the images are poorly prepped, and I swear it's just a bunch of novices out to have an easy time of making a fashionable icon.

If your icon is looking lacklustre and incomplete without the lighting effect, just slapping it on is not going to make it good to go. Like all brushes and textures, they're an accessory, not a crutch. If your icon looks unfinished without the texture, it's going to look tacked together with it. And if you don't match the mood and colouring of the icon to the texture, it's going to look haphazard and--dare I say it--ugly.

I guess, like with all things, I'm a bit of an icon minimalist. I hate the overly fashionable icon trends, and I hate anything that becomes popular as a crutch to prop up a mediocre icon. Decent icons (in my humble opinion) are not made by flashy effects. They're made by clever prepping, some tasteful borders/text, a couple of gradients/lighting layers and most of all, a good base image. You don't need 603728654981762 flashy effects and brushes to make a good icon. it will just turn out cluttered and tasteless.

*climbs down off soap box* :<

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