Great icons, everyone. Here are my two Miami ones from the texture challenge: And another Natalia one I didn't use: Feel free to snag if you want.
Oh Gosh!!!! Bloody Mary just one word!! Amazing!!!! I love the colour!!! Mrs.Devil awwwwww too sweet Ryan's icon.... Orla_Dark Great Job especially the third icon!! Whit I love Jesse's icon DeaditeSlayer you're so original :thumbsup: Now is my turn... Hope you like it!:thumbsup:
Lady I, love those Ryan icons, especially the first one. Here are mine from the Happiness challenge: no border 100x100 of the smaller pic Cal/Nat
Mine from the 1vs1 Halloween edition: V2 V3 V4 V5 Other Jesse icons: no text Jesse in sunglasses other costume ones: Jesse as Slash Jesse as Scarecrow
Love the holiday icons GNRF! So I just got photoshop and here is my first icon using it: Obviously I'm still new to it but what ya think?
^That actually pretty good for your first icon on photoshop FFF. Maybe sharpening the image a bit (by going to filters>sharpen>sharpen (I think this is right lol, not in my photoshop so doing this of the top of my head)). Also the text is a little small and is too much like the background colour so it doesn't really stand out well enough, maybe try using black. Also experiment with the colouring a bit more I could give you links to lj tutorials if you like, just let me know. But like I said at the starting, great job for your first attempt.
Here's another I made as a request on LiveJournal. I didn't use photoshop for this one, just my usual programs. This one was made for texmex327:
I actually disagree about the text. It doesn't overpower or distract from the image, and blends in nicely and subtly. I think you did an excellent job with it. That said, 'if you could' is a bit hard to read. Just wondering, what were you using before now? I am really surprised to find out that you weren't using PS :lol: Your icons have always looked very pretty. I'd say he looks a bit oversharpened there, rather than blurry. My favorite tool for sharpening on PS is the High Pass tool, which is under Filters. I'd recommend a Channel Mixer that subtracts some blue from the red channel, that adds a bit of green to the red and that mixes the blue and green, particularly making the green more bluish. I'd use a screen layer or two and a soft lighting level as I think the cap looks like it started out lower quality (through no fault of yours). There's a small amount of rainbowy oversharpening going on by his eyes, and a soft light layer could help with that. So I'd say maybe 2 screen layers followed by a soft light layer @ between 50 and 85%. Then a curves or levels layer to bring out the lighter parts in his face and make him glow a bit more. Personally, I've had quite a few particularly good experiences with the 'Auto' options for PS coloring -- autocolor as well as auto buttons on curves and levels.
Thank you happyharper! I use picnik to make my icons normally. I don't know much about ps yet, so I'm learning and thanks for the input! I will try all of that out! I don't know much about layers either and nothing about curves, lol! But I'm willing to learn.