Lauren's graphic journal

braindebris @ 2012-08-01T10:56:00

2012-08-01T14:56:13Z

[56] Icons (LOST, Game of Thrones, Nolan's Batman, Dexter, Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, Vampire Diaries)

lost
    01-04
    05-08
    09-12

    13-16
    17-20
    21-24

Game of Thrones
    25-28
    29-32
    33-36
    37-40

Nolan's Batman
    41-44
    45-48

Misc, (Dexter, Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, Vampire Diaries)
    49-52
    53-56

braindebris @ 2012-01-16T00:39:00

2012-01-16T05:39:20Z

[56] Icons (Dexter, LOST, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Breaking Bad, Supernatural)

dexter
    [01-04]
    [05-08]
    [09-12]
    [13-16]
    [17-20]

lost
    [21-24]
    [25-28]
    [29-32]
    [33-36]
    [37-40]
    [41-44]
    [45-48]

misc. (game of thrones, doctor who, supernatural, breaking bad)
    [49-52]
    [53-56]

braindebris @ 2011-09-19T17:56:00

2011-09-19T21:56:04Z

[80] Icons (LOST, Dexter, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Luther)

+Credit is appreciated+
+Comments are nice+
+Please don't hotlink+
+Please don't modify+
+Watch for updates+
+Enjoy!+

[LOST]
    01-04
    05-08
    09-12

    13-16
    17-20
    21-24

[Game of Thrones]
    25-28
    29-32

[Dexter]
    33-36
    37-40
    41-44

    45-48
    49-52
     53-56

    57-60
    61-64
    65-68

[Luther, Downton Abbey, Doctor Who]
    69-72
    73-76
    77-80

braindebris @ 2011-06-13T13:34:00

2011-06-13T17:34:30Z

[68] Icons (LOST, Doctor Who, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, Game of Thrones)

+Credit is appreciated+
+Comments are nice+
+Please don't hotlink+
+Please don't modify+
+Watch for updates+
+Enjoy!+

[LOST]
    [01-04]
    [05-08]
    [09-12]

    [13-16]
    [17-20]

[21-24]

[25-28]

[29-32]

[33-36]

[Battlestar Galactica]

[37-40]

[Fringe]

[41-44]

[45-48]

[Game of Thrones]

[49-52]

[Doctor Who]

[53-56]

[57-60]

[61-64

[65-68]

braindebris @ 2011-02-18T02:23:00

2011-02-18T07:22:05Z

[60] Icons (LOST, Community, Battlestar Galactica, Inception, Vampire Diaries, Parks and Recreation, Misfits)

+Credit is appreciated+
+Comments are nice+
+Please don't hotlink+
+Please don't modify+
+Watch for updates+
+Enjoy!+

     [01-04]
    [05-08]
    [09-12]

    [13-16]
    [17-20]
    [21-24]

    [25-28]
    [29-32]
    [33-36]
    [37-40]

     [41-44]
    [45-48]
    [49-52]
    [53-56]
    [57-60]

braindebris @ 2011-01-11T03:33:00

2011-01-11T08:33:06Z

  [48] Icons (LOST, Doctor Who, Haven, Vampire Diaries, Fringe)

+Credit is appreciated+
+Comments are nice+
+Please don't hotlink+
+Please don't modify+
+Watch for updates+
+Enjoy!+

[LOST]
    [01-04]
    [05-08]
    [09-12]

    [13-16]
    [17-20]
   [21-24]

    [25-28]
    [29-32]

[Doctor Who]
    [33-36]
   [37-40]

[Misc. Harry Potter, Haven, The Vampire Diaries, The Walking Dead, Fringe]
    [41-44]
    [45-48]

braindebris @ 2010-11-09T17:14:00

2010-11-09T22:10:17Z

[72] Icons (LOST, Haven, Doctor Who, Vampire Diaries)


+Credit is appreciated+
+Comments are nice+
+Please don't hotlink+
+Please don't modify+
+Watch for updates+
+Enjoy!+

[lost]
[01-04]
[05-08]
[09-12]

    [13-16]
    [17-20]
   [21-24]

    [25-28]
    [29-32]
    [33-36]

    [37-40]

[haven]
[41-44]
[45-48]
    [49-52]

    [53-56]

[doctor who]
[57-60]
    [61-64]

[vampire diaries]
   [65-68]
    [69-72]

braindebris @ 2010-09-21T16:45:00

2010-09-21T20:44:00Z

[196] Icons (LOST, Inception, Doctor Who, Haven, True Blood, Matthew Fox)

[1-128] LOST

[129-136] True Blood

[137-156] Haven
[157-164] Doctor Who
[165-188] Celebrities (Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Lady Gaga)
[189-196] Inception

Well it's been several months since I've posted icons. I've been too lazy to put them up so the pile has just kinda..grown..just a bit. Most-if not all of these are from my stuff on tumblr. Feel free to follow me there for my graphics as well.

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+Comments are nice+
+Please don't hotlink+

+Please don't modify+
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    [01-04]
    [05-08]
    [09-12]

    [13-16]
    [17-20]
   [21-24]

   [25-28]
    [29-32]
    [33-36]

    [37-40]
    [41-44]
    [45-48]

    [49-52]
    [53-56]
    [57-60]

    [61-64]
    [65-68]
    [69-72]

    [73-76]
    [77-80]
     [81-84]

    [85-88]
    [89-92]
    [93-96]

    [97-100]
    [101-104]
    [105-108]

    [109-112]
    [113-116]
    [117-120]

    [121-124]
    [125-128]

    [129-132]
    [133-136]

    [137-140]
    [141-144]
    [145-148]

    [149-152]
    [153-156]

    [157-160]
    [161-164]

    [165-168]
    [169-172]
    [173-176]

    [177-180]
    [181-184]

    [185-188]

    [189-192]
    [193-196]

braindebris @ 2010-06-06T04:54:00

2010-06-06T08:54:38Z

[80] Icons (LOST, True Blood, Supernatural, misc. celebrities)

So LOST is over but I doubt I'll be over iconing it or my bb Jack anytime soon. There were so many great scenes in the finale and a lot more I want to icon, but I didn't want this batch to get out of hand so I decided to just put up what I have so far. A lot of these were inspired by both born_butterfly and prettybutt 's amazing works. This batch is dedicated to prettybutt as we grieve the loss of our Jackers. ♥

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+Comments are also nice+
+Hot linking is not nice+
+Modifiying is not nice either+
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+Enjoy!+

    [01-04]
    [05-08]
    [09-12]
    [13-16]
    [17-20]
    [21-24]
[25-28]
[29-32]
[33-36]
[37-40]
[41-44]
[45-48]
[49-52]
[53-56]
[57-60]

    [61-64]
[65-68]

[69-72]

    [73-76]
[77-80]

Revenge of the tutorial

2010-05-19T09:00:00Z

Making this icon (joyyyy)

Written for weatheredlaw and zooclawakp (finally)

Since the last tutorial addressed textures/masking (even if the icon created is crap imho, principles are still there :p), I figured I'd do coloring for this one. I use to be quite fond of just messing with random settings, saving psds and making batches that way (and honestly, you don't learn much that way), however I've moved on to a different, more individual approach to cap coloring/iconing and actually tried to, you know, understand how to do it.

As a basic iconing rule, picking high resolution images/caps is obviously ideal. Why? Because we'll get less pixelization/image distortion when we resize our images and maintain more detail than if we were working with a small image. In this particular image, I'll be using curves, color balance, selective coloring, exposure and saturation adjustment layers.

So let's start with our cap. These are reduced in size for tutorial purposes, but you can download the original of this cap here. See? Nice and big.

So what I really wanted to do in this image is brighten/add contrast and (try) and bring out the yellows because I really loved the way the light was reflecting off her hair. There are several ways to go about lightening an image. Instead of using screen layers I like using curves because I find I can get more precise control that way. Now, if your graphic program doesn't have curves, duplicating your layer and screening it and adding a soft light layer works too.

Go to the bottom of your layers palette, hit new adjustment layer and go to curves. I sort of regret using this for a tutorial because my curves are all over the place but I'll give it a go anyway. Now, to be honest, I'm not 100% super awesome at using curves, a lot of it is experimentation. Do I really understand it? Not really. I could probably stand to research more a bit, but understanding the funky graph in the middle (the histogram) helps slightly. I don't have complete knowledge to lecture about it in this tutorial, but a good one already written can be found here.

First, let's start working with the shadows. Click on the little dot on the graph in the bottom left corner. Input these numbers.
output: 0
input: 6

Now click on the other dot at the top right of the graph and input these numbers.
output: 255
input: 192

Next we're going to add more points on this line to increase contrast and create-gasp-a curve. I've probably added one too many but I have a tendency to do that. Just click anywhere on the line and put in these numbers.

1st point
output: 12
input: 26

2nd point
output: 61
input: 63

3rd point
output: 93
input: 79

Your graph should look similar to this

Now here's what our cap looks like after all that bizness.

As you can see, we've got a fair amount of contrast from the curves and the yellows are starting to pop out too. It still looks a bit washed out though. So next we're going to add in a bit of saturation.

Create a saturation layer, give it a setting of about +12, we should get something that looks like this.

Now the color is really starting to come out. I still thought the image could use just a smidge more lightening and I wanted to do a bit of color adjustment to even out the skin tone. So I'm going to use selective coloring. You could use color balance, just like you can contrast/brighten with levels too but like curves, I find selective coloring to give more precise tuning. A better explanation of selective coloring can be found here. So create a selective coloring adjustment layer and put in these numbers.

Reds
magenta: +14
yellow: +4
black: -12
As you can see, we're increasing the magentas in the red tones and balancing a bit with some yellow. We're also adding white which really helps to even/lighten skin tones.

Yellows
cyan: +10
magenta: -8
yellow: +17
black: -13

Neutrals
cyan: -7
magenta: -6
yellow: -6
black: -9

And our image should look like this

The skin tone is softened a bit and we've got a nice hue to her face. Now we add a bit of saturation back in again. Instead of adding it to the entire image, we're only going to add saturation to the reds and yellows. Create a hue/saturation layer with these numbers.
Reds: +10
Yellows: +14
Your image should look like this

Subtle, but it's there. Next I wanted to focus on those yellows. I wanted to really just do a quick and dirty increase to make them stand out so I created another curves layer. At the top instead of working in RGB we're going to work in the green channel. Once more I've got my points all over the place but here are the input numbers.

We're not adjusting either the top or bottom points, just adding to the line. Once more just click a spot on it and input these numbers.
First point
output: 40
input: 32

Second point
output: 120
input: 98

Third point
output: 165
input: 140

Fourth point
output: 238
input: 233

Curves should look like this

Now yes the entire image has a green/yellow tint to it, however, layer masks can also be used for color adjustment layers! Make sure black is selected on your color palette and click on the white square next to the adjustment layer image on the layers panel. Fill this in with black and it should remove the tint. Now take your brush, select white as your color and paint in this box. I painted around the highlights in her hair as well as her eyes. Essentially we're 'masking' so only the yellow tint will show through on these areas. What you should have should look similar to this.

Next is a levels layer to brighten up the reds. In the red channel your numbers should be 10, 1.14 and 255 to give us this

Again, subtle but it's there. You could just stop right here and call it a day but I opted to add in a bit more red to the shadows so I added a fill layer with this color da2799, set it to Pin light at 7%

Now we're going to add an exposure layer to do a quick and dirty contrast/lighten.
Exposure: +0.12
Offset: -0.0020

Add in one more saturation level of +8 and we get our final image. Subtle is the running theme, or it's just being anal maybe.

Here are the two icons I made from this cap. Generally I will create a separate 100x100 document, copy the cap and paste, then resize (hold down the shift key to keep your image proportions so you don't get elongated, funky faces and whatnot). Next I sharpen using photoshop's High Pass filter, adjusting input and opacity as needed.

And fin. If you have further questions I'll do my best to answer them but I hope at least some of this was helpful :)

braindebris @ 2010-05-18T23:42:00

2010-05-19T03:43:04Z

[88]LOST Icons (cast+various seasons)

Frustrated as hell with this laptop monitor. If I burn your eyes out with some-I'm sorry :( Haven't done a batch this large in awhile. I guess with LOST ending it's gotten me iconing a lot, not to mention most of these are crops from my picspams so-they're kinda boring and really not that great but I'm putting them up anywayz because I have poor perception of what people end up liking most of the time *_*

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+Comments are also nice+
+Hot linking is not nice+
+Modifiying is not nice either+
+Watch the comm for updates+
+Enjoy!+

[01-04]
[05-08]
[09-12]
[13-16]
[17-20]
[21-24]
[25-28]
[29-32]

[33-36]
[37-40]
[41-44]
[45-48]
[49-52]
[53-56]
[57-60]
[61-64]
[65-68]
[69-72]
[73-76]
[77-80]
[81-84]
[85-88]

braindebris @ 2010-04-28T15:10:00

2010-04-28T19:10:32Z

[46] LOST Icons (cast+various seasons)

Pardon the over use of red in this post and my lame attempts at movie references and humor. Credit for 45 goes to the hilariously awesome suzyx

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+Don't modify+
+Please credit+
+Comments are welcome+
+Watch the comm for updates+

[01-03]
[04-06]
[07-09]
[10-12]
[13-15]

[16-18]
[19-21]
[22-24]
[25-27]
[28-30]
[31-33]
[34-36]

[37-39]
[40-42]
[43-45]
[46]

braindebris @ 2010-04-16T14:55:00

2010-04-16T18:55:45Z

[44] LOST Icons (6x12+various seasons)

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20 LOST icons for lost20in20 Claim: LAX

Emoticon// Boat // Stock // Face Off // Take Two

Green// Texture // Bloody // B&W // OMFG

Lyrical-"Perfect Symmetry" Keane

Artist's Choice

The rest
Apologies for the lack of creativity with most of these, my muse is on vaca I guess.

[01-03]
[04-06]
[07-09]
[10-12]
[13-15]
[16-18]
[19-21]
[22-24]

braindebris @ 2010-03-29T21:56:00

2010-03-30T01:56:26Z

[48] LOST Icons (cast+various seasons)

A lot of experimentation with this batch. Some are okay-others mehhh. There's a lot of Jack. Haters to the left plz. One of these days I will try to actually break into other fandoms but I doubt it'll happen anytime soon.

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+Don't modify+
+Comments are welcome but not required+
+Watch the comm for updates+

[01-03]
[04-06]
[07-09]
[10-12]
[13-15]
[16-18]
[19-21]

[22-24]
[25-27]
[28-30]
[31-33]
[34-36]
[37-39]
[40-42]
[43-45]
[46-48]

braindebris @ 2010-03-15T04:44:00

2010-03-15T08:44:53Z

[34] Icons (LOST, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Muse, Misc (True Blood, Flapjack))

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[01-03]
[04-06]
[07-09]
[10-12]
[13]

[14-16]
[17-19]
[20-22]
[23-25]
[26]

[27-29]
[30-32]
[33-34]

braindebris @ 2010-03-03T05:00:00

2010-03-03T10:00:30Z

[42] Icons (Lady Gaga, Misc. Celebs, Matthew Fox, LOST)
[01-06] Lady Gaga
[07-09] Misc. Celebs
[10-27] Matthew Fox
[28-42] LOST Season 6

There's some fuckery going on in this post. Trying new things as always. I think about less than half of them worked but, oh well, lol.

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[01-03]
[04-06]

[07-09]

[10-12]
[13-15]
[16-18]
[19-21]
[22-24]
[25-27]

[28-30]
[31-33]
[34-36]
[37-39]
[40-42]

braindebris @ 2010-02-18T19:12:00

2010-02-19T00:12:26Z

[27] LOST Icons
01-12 Season 6
13-27 Matthew Fox

Another small batch. I had to remedy my lack of Jack in this week's ep somehow. And I actually did a few icons of Richard! (lol)

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[01-03]
[04-06]
[07-09]
[10-12]
[13-15]
[16-18]
[19-21]
[22-24]
[25-27]

braindebris @ 2010-02-13T17:30:00

2010-02-13T22:30:40Z

[30] LOST Icons

IDK about most of these. Kinda meh :/ Haven't felt particularly creative this week. But I need something to christen my comm with. I was also like 'I'm totally going to icon the last episode and not so much Jack' and then I just ended up doing mostly more LAX..and Jack. Oh well.

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[01-03]
[04-06]
[07-09]
[10-12]
[13-15]
[16-18]
[19-21]
[22-24]
[25-27]
[28-30]

Archive poast

2010-02-12T23:32:02Z

Archive of old icons

[02-07-10]

[01-19-10]

[01-12-10]

[01-05-10]

[12-30-09]

[12-24-09]

[12-19-09]

[12-15-09]

[12-09-09]

[12-03-09]

[11-24-09]

[11-22-09]

RESOURCE POAST

2010-02-09T00:32:13Z

CAPS/STILLS
dj_capslock
homeofthenutty
lost-media
matthewfox.net
Daydreaming

TEXTURES/BRUSHES
luminiscencia
pandavirus
prettybutt
deny1984
joongified
xsleepingswanx
hepburnette
lifeisdolce
77words
hybridmagic*most used*
blimey_icons
iconseeyou
urbanstrokes
ivison
dearest
ohfreckless
miyouri
we_wanna_rock
elli
kekoah
tihana
ohfreckle*most used*
lovelamp
wildsheepz
yunhe
cereal_killerz
poshing
expose42
drankmywar
rubber_dick
navras_rheya

A massive thank you to all these wonderful people.

List to be updated periodically. If I've used something of yours and you aren't credited here, feel free to bitchslap me through a PM.