...

65 Stock/Evangeline Lilly/Dom Monaghan

2006-05-25T11:31:38Z

14 Evangeline Lilly
11 Dom Monaghan
03 Misc (Natalie Portman, Gale Harold, Sawyer-Lost)
37 Stock (random)

Teasers...

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	57	58	59	60

61	62	63	64	65

01-14 Evangeling Lilly
15-25 Dom Monaghan
26-00 Natalie Portman
27-00 Gale Harold
28-00 Sawyer (Lost)
29-65 Stock

Rules/Notes...
+ Please comment.
+ Credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords.
+ NO hotlinking.
+ Textless are not bases, no modification (if you want something altered, just ask).
+ Like what you see? FRIEND journal for updates.
+ Nominations welcome, just let me know first.

56 Stock/Kristen Bell/Natalie Portman + 4 Wallpapers (Stock/Dom Monaghan)

2006-04-15T23:37:58Z

23 Stock (beach related)
12 Natalie Portman
9 Kristen Bell
5 Dom Monaghan
4 Clive Owen
1 Adrien Brody
1 Jared Leto
1 Kristen Kreuk

+ 2 Dom Monaghan wallpapers
+ 2 Stock (sweets) wallpapers

Teasers...

01	02	03	04	05

06	07	08	09	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	-	-	-	-

A

800x600 | 1024x768

B

800x600 | 1024x768

C

800x600 | 1024x768

D

800x600 | 1024x768

01-23 Stock
24-32 Kristen Bell
33-44 Natalie Portman
45-00 Kristen Kreuk
46-00 Jared Leto
47-00 Adrien Brody
48-51 Clive Owen
52-56 Dom Monaghan
A-B Dom Monaghan
C-D Stock

Rules/Notes...
+ Comments get snuggled.
+ Credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords if using.
+ NO hotlinking.
+ Textless are not bases, no modification (if you want something altered, just ask).
+ Like what you see? FRIEND journal for updates.
+ Nominations welcome, just let me know first.

Pimping: stock_awards. And actor_lims & misc_lims are starting soon.

Tutorial #3 - Kristen Bell

2006-04-01T21:36:25Z

to with curves / color balance / defaults (PS7)...

Kristen Bell Tutorial

Rotate image (duplicate first) and crop your base. I used this image of Kristen Bell.

crtl + alt + shft + L (Image > Adjustments > Auto Contrast)
crtl + shft + L (Image > Adjustments > Auto Levels)
crtl + shft + B (Image > Adjustments > Auto Color)

Duplicate base. Overlay, 79%.

New Layer. Soft round 35 px brush. Black.

New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance [MY SETTINGS] (place between base and overlay layers)

New Adjustment Layer > Curves
I like to do new sepearte adjustment layers for RGB/green/red/blue so I can play with their visibility afterwards. But for easyness sake, they're all in the same layer here.
Note: For help with curves, refer to this tutorial by herdestiny.
Really, curves are very individual things, but these were my settings (without exact input/output values, since these probably wouldn't work the same for your icon)...

[RGB]
[RED]
[GREEN]
[BLUE]

New Layer. Soft round 35 px brush. White - to make a light spot.

Add tiny text in Times New Roman, 2 pt, smooth.

Duplicate tiny text layer. Lower Opacity to 74%

Sharpen/fade/soften base as necessary.

[Layers Pallate]

65 Stock/Heath Ledger/Misc.

2006-03-27T22:41:50Z

[42] Stock (sweets/landscape)
[09] Heath Ledger
[14] Misc (House.B/J.Paul Bettany.Kate Beckinsale.etc...)

Teasers...

<td bgcolor="c0c0c0" style="font-size: 8pt; font-style: verdana; color:c0c0c0; border: 5px solid c0c0c0">-</td><td bgcolor="c0c0c0" style="font-size: 8pt; font-style: verdana; color:c0c0c0; border: 5px solid c0c0c0">-</td><td bgcolor="c0c0c0" style="font-size: 8pt; font-style: verdana; color:7b7b7b; border: 5px solid c0c0c0">STOCK</td><td bgcolor="c0c0c0" style="font-size: 8pt; font-style: verdana; color:c0c0c0; border: 5px solid c0c0c0">-</td><td bgcolor="c0c0c0" style="font-size: 8pt; font-style: verdana; color:c0c0c0; border: 5px solid c0c0c0">-</td>

001	002	003	004	005

006	007	008	009	010

011	012	013	014	015

016	017	018	019	020

021	022	023	024	025

026	027	028	029	030

031	032	033	034	035

036	037	038	039	040

041	042	-	-	-
		-	-	-
-	-	HEATH LEDGER	-	-
043	044	045	046	047

048	049	050	051	-
				-
-	-	MISC	-	-
052	053	054	055	056

057	058	059	060	061

062	063	064	065	-
				-

52-53 Brian/Justin
54-55 House cast
56-00 Linda Edelstein
57-00 Jake Gyllenhaal
58-00 Jensen Ackles
59-61 Kate Beckinsale
62-65 Paul Bettany

Rules/Notes...
+ Comments get snuggled.
+ Credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords if using.
+ NO hotlinking.
+ Textless are not bases, no modification (if you want something altered, just ask).
+ Like what you see? FRIEND journal for updates.
+ Affiliates? Comment in this post.
+ Nominations welcome, just let me know first.

36 Misc. Actors (inc. Scarlett Johansson / Jake Gyllenhaal / Elisha Cuthbert)

2006-03-03T23:41:21Z

[8] Scarlett Johansson
[7] Jake Gyllenhall
[6] Elisha Cuthbert
[3] Joseph Gordon-Levitt
[5] Christian Bale
[3] Gael Garcia Bernal
[4] Amy Mizzi

TEASERS...

44. 08. 20.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.

06. 07. 08.

JAKE GYLLENHAAL

09. 10. 11. 12. 13.

14. 15.

ELISHA CUTHBERT

16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

21.

MISC

22. 23. 24. 25. 26.

27. 28. 29. 30. 31.

32. 33. 34. 35. 36.

Rules/Notes...
+ Comments may warrant cookies if they make me happy enough.
+ Credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords if using.
+ NO hotlinking.
+ Textless are not bases, no modification (if you want something altered, just ask).
+ Like what you see? FRIEND journal for updates.
+ Affiliates? Comment in this post.
+ #22-32 with pics from actor_lims.
+ (#22-24) Joseph Gordon-Levitt / (#25-29) Christian Bale / (#30-32) Gael Garcia Bernal / (33-36) Amy Mizzi.
+ Nominations welcome, just let me know first.
+ Not happy with a lot of these, bleh.

Award Post

2006-02-25T01:50:19Z

Awards I've won...

fadedscribbles @ 2006-02-16T16:06:00

2006-02-16T16:07:33Z

ICON TRUTH MEME

Feel free to be honest/harsh/blunt.

Tutorial #1 & Tutorial #2 - Kristen Bell

2006-02-11T01:14:40Z

Today kids, we'll be going from this to (#1) and/or (#2) in PS7.

Tutorial #1

Crop - if you're totally new to this, you might want to go here first (ignore my comments though, *eyeroll*).

The black line is 'cause I cropped outside the image area to get the position I wanted - the extra space is whatever your background colour is.

Image > Adjustments > Auto contrast (or Alt+Shft+Ctrl+L) - I've been doing this to every icon recently, really seems to help with clarity.

Desaturate base (Ctrl+Shft+U).

Duplicate base, screen (9%)

Duplicate base (drag to top layer), overlay (84%)

Sharpen base, fade sharpen to 35%

Now to vamoosh the ugly black line. New layer - on top. Use the square marquee tool to select an area larger than the black, fill with white.

Use the 14 px 'spatter' default brush to erase sufficiently in a ripped way (zoom in first). They really called it spatter?!

If you want, you can use the burn tool (brush = 9 px soft round, range = highlights, exposure = 50%) to, well, burn the edges of the white.

Obviously, choose whatever text / colour / number of lines / position / angle you want, don't copy mine exactly. That wouldn't be much fun.

I used font - High Strung, size - 14 pt, anti aliasing - strong.

Type one line/word.

Rotate and position. Repeat for other words/lines.

It's not too clear, so experiment with different colours. For interests sake, I used...

love #C54054
live #FF4D68
smile #B17881
feel #C6C6C6
touch #E1E1E1

Finally, new layer - between screen and overlay. Set this gradient by crumblingwalls to lighten.

Layers palate

Tutorial #2

Crop & auto contrast, as with tutorial #1.

Duplicate base, screen 57%.

I don't like how the background detail has been lost, so I used a soft round brush to erase the background section of the screen layer.

Duplicate base (to top), overlay 62%.

Desaturate overlay layer.

The cute little puppy's too dark to be snuggable, so I erased the puppy and the background from the overlay layer.

Sharpen and fade base as necessary.

Font = Parker's Hand, size = 12 pt, anti aliasing = strong, text = kristen bell (two different layers), colour = white. The idea here is to overlap the text, so different to tutorial #1.

Merge text layers (link then Ctrl+E), then duplicate (opacity 92%).

Add 3 lines of tiny text in Times New Roman, size = 2 pt, anti aliasing = smooth, colour = white. Tip: duplicate one line once finished and move it so it looks like a new one, pressing the return / new line key tends to blur the lines. Merge and duplicate text layers (opacity 36%).

New layer - top. Use the elliptical marquee tool to make a selection, fill with #00C0FF.
New layer - top. Use the elliptical marquee tool to make a selection, fill with #FF00C0.

Set both circle layers to lighten.

New layer - between screen and overlay. Set the same gradient as in tutorial #1 by crumblingwalls to lighten.

Layers palate

Fin. Simple.

Hope these were helpful to at least one person. I'm not a huge fan of overly complicated / thousand layer colouring, so sorry to disappoint on that front.

Feedback is appreciated. I'd *love* to see what anyone makes from these.

Please do not copy the tutorial to the letter, it is intended as a guide. Cool people don't make copies ;)

Icons are useable, just remember to comment to let me know, credit fadedscribbles or snarkybecky in keywords, and do NOT hotlink.

+ Friend journal.
+ Affiliates? Comment in this post.

x

57 Misc. Actors (inc. Kristen Bell / Heath Ledger / Scarlett Johansson)

2006-02-07T19:30:35Z

[16] Scarlett Johansson
[15] Heath Ledger
[16] Kristen Bell
[06] Craig David
[03] Josh Hartnett
[02] Ryan Reynolds
[02] Jennifer Love Hewitt

TEASERS...

44. 08. 20.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.

06. 07. 08. 09. 10.

11. 12. 13.

HEATH LEDGER

14. 15. 16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21. 22. 23.

24. 25. 26. 27. 28.

KRISTEN BELL

29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

34. 35. 36. 37. 38.

39. 40. 41. 42. 43.

44.

CRAIG DAVID

45. 46. 47. 48. 49.

50.

MISC

51. 52. 53. 54. 55.

56. 57.

Rules/Notes...
+ Comments are love, particularly interesting ones. If you think my icons suck, I don't mind you saying, as long as you qualify that with a reason.
+ Credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords if using - required.
+ NO hotlinking. It's really not that hard.
+ Textless are not bases, no modification (if you want something altered, just ask).
+ Like what you see? Friend journal for updates.
+ Affiliates? Comment in this post.
+ Heath scans from heath_daily of GQ magazine. If I've missed anything that needs credit, please tell me :)
+ Nominations welcome, just let me know first.

New Layout

2006-01-29T19:52:11Z

Because I'm lame, and layout challenged, I used practically the exact same style for both this and my new personal journal one (snarkybecky).

fadedscribbles fadedscribbles fadedscribbles fadedscribbles fadedscribbles fadedscribbles fadedscribbles

Anyone know why the header and rest of it seem to be a pixel of so off??

Updated the userinfo too.

You like?

Affiliate?

2006-01-29T17:15:04Z

Current affiliates...

__iiconize__
brokenroad__
cappagraphics
crazedicons
eternalphoenix_
grapeseedy
last5
noway_icons
prettypeopledie
sheld0n
suchdainties
telegraph_icons
visionaryicons
walkingonstilts
weapon_icons
zocat_icons

If you would like to become an affiliate, just comment to this post with the journal you would like to be added with. I reserve the right to be mean and say no though... ;P

EDIT: I don't like long lists, so I'm going to be really picky from now on. If I a) I comment on one of your icons posts saying I like any of your stuff, or b) you're good, then I'll gladly add you.

107 Heath Ledger / Kristen Bell / animals / text

2006-01-27T23:41:58Z

[15] Kristen Bell
[14] Heath Ledger
[64] Animals
[14] Random Text

TEASERS...

3. 24. 42.

KRISTEN BELL

01. 002. 003. 004. 005.

006. 007. 008. 009. 010.

011. 012. 013. 014. 015.

HEATH LEDGER

016. 017. 018. 019. 020.

021. 022. 023. 024. 025.

026. 027. 028. 029.

ANIMALS

030. 031. 032. 033. 034.

035. 036. 037. 038. 039.

040. 041. 042. 043. 044.

045. 046. 047. 048. 049.

050. 051. 052. 053. 054.

055. 056. 057. 058. 059.

060. 061. 062. 063. 064.

065. 066. 067. 068. 069.

070. 071. 072. 073. 074.

075. 076. 077. 078. 079.

080. 081. 082. 083. 084.

085. 086. 087. 088. 089.

090. 091. 092. 093.

TEXT

094. 095. 096. 097. 098.

099. 100. 101. 102. 103.

104. 105. 106. 107.

Notes...
- Textless icons are not bases, no modifying. If you want something altered, just ask.
- Appologies for the megapost, but they were good procrastination between exam revision. And it's at that indecicive stage again, so you got all the different versions :P
- [106 & 107] Catch someone hotlinking your icons on a forum or elsewhere? Switch the links. - Simply save one of these (or one you make) under the same file name as precious stolen icons, and change precious icons links to something different. These show up on said forum instead... Yeah, so it still uses your bandwidth, but we have to take small victories.
- Heath pics from heathbaby.com
- Animal pics from random googleage - just give me a nudge if anything needs credit.
- Like what you see? Friend journal for updates.
- ETA: Affiliates? Comment in this post.
- X-Posted... a little... *cough* Friends pages are going to collectively murder me in my sleep tonight.
- Nominations always welcome.
- Telling me which icons you're taking is preferable to just saying "grabbing a bunch, thanks". I like to see which styles people like.
- Usual rules apply...

+ Comment if taking anything
+ Credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords if using - required.
+ NO(!) hotlinking - ...or you'll get a special icon... *glares* ...before your slow and painful death.
+ No modification

57 Misc. Actors/Actresses + Heath Ledger FO Banners & Headers

2006-01-04T03:05:53Z

[19] Dominic Monaghan
[15] Heath Ledger
[13] Beau Brady
[03] Ben Unwin
[07] Scarlett Johansson

TEASERS...

11. 39. 26.

DOMINIC MONAGHAN

01. 02. 03. 04. 05.

06. 07. 08. 09. 10.

11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

16. 17. 18. 19.

HEATH LEDGER

20. 21. 22. 23. 24.

25. 26. 27. 28. 29.

30. 31. 32. 33. 34.

BEAU BRADY

35. 36. 37. 38. 39.

40. 41. 42. 43. 44.

45. 46. 47.

BEN UNWIN

48. 49. 50.

SCARLETT JOHANSSON

51. 52. 53. 54. 55.

56. 57.

+[07]Headers - Heath Ledger

HEADERS - HEATH LEDGER

1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6.

+[03]FO Banners - Heath Ledger

FRIENDS ONLY BANNERS - HEATH LEDGER

1. 2. 3.

Notes...
- Some of these were made a few weeks ago, and I feel I've kind of changed style a little since then. So if they don't seem to fit in with the batch, that's why.
- Textless icons are not bases, no modifying. If you want something altered, just ask.
- Headers & FO Banners match icons 28, 30 & 31.
- They're not exactly vastly different form each other, I realise this. I'm indecisive, okay.
- Credit required for headers & FO banners in user info if using.
- Heath pics from heathbaby.com
- Dom pics from... gah, an lj user... somewhere...? Someone tell me and I'll edit.
- Usual rules apply...

+ Comment if taking anything
+ Credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords if using - required.
+ NO(!) hotlinking - seriously, the bandwidth exceeding thing is really starting to grate now. I will hunt you down and steal all your cookies!

Wallpaper & Header - Tammin Sursok

2005-12-16T18:23:21Z

Tammin Sursok (lyrics: KT Tunstall - Minature Disasters)

- Comment

- Credit if using the header

- NO HOTLINKING!

48 Home & Away - Christmas

2005-12-15T22:28:23Z

Misc. seasonal H&A actors/characters (it's a soap :P)

Teasers...

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.

Other Christmas icons...

- Cartoon rudolph/snowman
e.g.
[HERE]

- Desperate Housewives
e.g.
[HERE]

Comment, credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords if using, NO (!) hotlinking, have a merry Christmas :D

Ask for snow removal.

7 Desperate Housewives - Christmas

2005-12-15T21:40:49Z

Teasers...

1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7.

Other Christmas icons...

- Cartoon rudolph/snowman
e.g.
[HERE]

- Home & Away
e.g.
[HERE]

Comment, credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords if using, NO (!) hotlinking, have a merry Christmas :D

Ask for snow removal.

Christmas icons (snowman & reindeer)

2005-12-15T20:45:40Z

11 Christmas (snowman & reindeer) icons. Totally helped/inspired by this amazing tutorial by mazzmatazz - really worth checking out XD

Teasers...

1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8.

9. 10. 11.

Other Christmas icons...

- Desperate Housewives
e.g.
[HERE]

- Home & Away
e.g.
[HERE]

Comment, credit snarkybecky or fadedscribbles in keywords if using, NO (!) hotlinking, have a merry Christmas :D

Oh, and feel free to ask for snow removal.

ETA:

- 4. resized (but looks kinda blizzard-y)

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	57	58	59	60

61	62	63	64	65

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56	-	-	-	-

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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	63	64	65

01	02	03	04	05

06	07	08	09	10

11	12	13	14	15

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