Hamazake

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2007-12-18T04:16:41Z

HOLY CRAPPING COUGARS HELLO

Quite obviously, I haven't posted anything to this journal in a loooong time. I made an icon community to replace this - sterlingsea. Incidentally, my reason for moving is because I'm incredibly lazy and find a community a lot easier to take care of, plus I wanted a fresh start. :U
I haven't made much of anything new as of late (or even since I last made an entry here, lol procrastination) but whatever, I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things sometime soon, probably over winter break.
In any case, if you're still interested in keeping tabs with this kind of thing, then go and watch my ~~relatively~~ new icon community. The stuff I have made since my last post is a lot better, I swear. :G

Oh, another shameless pimp - if you like Lovely Complex and enjoy making icons, you should join lovecom_awards. It's really new and we're looking for more members. I'm a banner maker~ yeah
do it

Icon dump #3.

2007-07-13T21:22:59Z

Counting these icons has shown me that I cannot do the simplest math. Deleting a bunch of icons and jumbling up their numbers hasn't helped but eh let's hope I did it right. x(

Yay icons!
26 Naruto
15 Eureka SeveN
10 Tales of Symphonia (full of shameless chatspeak and memes)
4 FMA, 1 Final Fantasy and 1 Phoenix Wright.
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Please credit and comment!

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Icon bases: Naruto

2007-07-11T17:04:57Z

Sorry for not updating in awhile. I've been kind of busy and lately I've been in one of those "I'm deleting all this" moods so I lack a lot of new material to share.
But anyway I made a new journal layout. It's Tobito! And just a heads up, I really don't care if you're anti-Tobito so don't freak out at it. :( It's not a big deal, and to be honest I don't know very much about Naruto so I wouldn't be a good candidate for a theory debate. Onward!
Oh yeah there's a new profile layout too but it's yucky. Now onward!

I managed to save these b&w manga bases from my deleting spree, but there's only 20. They're all Naruto and consist of: Sakura, Kakashi, Iruka, Naruto, Obito, and some Shippuden Naruto/Sasuke.
Have fun with them, there's no need to credit but drop a comment and show me what you made if you want to.

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Icon tutorial: Renton Thurston

2007-06-15T16:19:31Z

Go from this to any of these:

For Paint Shop Pro 9, translatable.

1 Acquire a base - I used a scan of Renton from Eureka SeveN (the scan was huge so I just cropped Renton so you could see what it looked like before I resized it).

2 Crop, resize, and sharpen. I got this:
Well nevermind, I had a copy of the b&w base but I accidentally saved over it. :(

3 Because this was black and white, I obviously wanted to colour it. So colour your image (I did this after I did step 2 but you can do it before if you want) - make new layers for every different colour you use in case you want to lower the opacity on one of them. Set them all to multiply.

4 Merge all your layers, then create a new layer and fill it with a cream colour, like #f8eac8. Set it to multiply; for my image, I lowered the opacity but it just depends on your personal preferences.

5 New layer, fill it with a dark blue colour like #02102a. Set it to exclusion.

6 New layer, fill with a light blue like #baf4ef, and set to burn.

7 Now duplicate your original layer, drag it to the top, and desaturate it. Set it to soft light. So far we have something like this:

8 Add this texture by colorfilter and set it to multiply.
And now we have this:

9 Alternative 1: Add this brush by meleada.
What I did was I created a new 100x100 white image, then added the brush to it in black. Then I made a new layer on top and filled it with white and set it to exclusion. I merged all my layers, then copied the brush image and pasted it as a new layer on my icon-in-progress (set to burn). I'm sure there are other ways to do this but to me this method was efficient, hopefully it's not too confusing! If it is just drop a comment and I'll explain better. For your convenience I provided the brush above already with the exclusion layer and everything so all you have to do is copy and paste. :0

10 Add a tiny text brush or make your own (as I did), and you'll get this (I also added step 13 to my result below):

11 Alternative 2: Add this texture by cynicalsnark. As with the previous brush, I pasted it as a new image, added a new exclusion layer in white, then merged and pasted it onto my icon. Now, duplicate it twice; set the bottom two to burn, and the top one to multiply. Once again I provided the texture already fixed up so you don't have to do it.

12 Add your text and/or other brushes to the icon. Mine:

13 Alternative 3: Make a new layer on top of everything and fill it with black; set it to burn at around 30% opacity. You may have to drag your text layers above this layer, as I did with mine. Otherwise, they might end up being somewhat dark. Here's my result:

Hopefully that wasn't too confusing! If you have any questions about the tutorial please feel free to drop a comment and I'll answer.

Icon dump #2.

2007-05-15T02:43:29Z

Photobucket stopped being a bitch guys. *celebrate*
This is a smaller batch but you know, who cares. Here's a count to make you happy.
5 Eureka 7
3 FLCL
32 Naruto
4 Death Note
7 Full Metal Alchemist
51 Total
I like how when I first counted it I only counted 49. Fail.
Edit: Well okay I must have miscounted somewhere but whatever, it was late and I suck at math.
Additional Notes: Textless icons are NOT stock! You may not alter them without asking me first. Also, numbers 13-16 look crappy on certain monitors, according to my handy dandy internet buddy (lol) eigengrau. Apparently there's a big grey blob by Obito's jaw or something. If they look like they're made of suck on your computer, don't use 'em.
Reminders: Credit ALWAYS! Commenting is not mandatory but it's very nice (hint). Check the userinfo or journal front page for the other rules.

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And here's the bonus:

Unfortunately LiveJournal fails compared to InsaneJournal (which has a greater file size limit as well as a 100-icon limit for free accounts) so this icon will not upload to LJ, sorry. You can reduce the file size if you want but the optimization already crappified the quality enough. :[

Icon dump #1.

2007-05-01T02:42:41Z

Okay, revamp complete. I deleted the other entries and combined the icons, along with tons of brand spankin' new ones. I'll make separate entries for the other resources later.
Do I really need to make an icon count? Nah. Just know that there are 82 icons altogether. And sorry that a lot of them suck, I tried to eliminate the suckiest ones and realized if I kept it up, I'd have no icons left.
Additional Notes: Textless icons are NOT stock! You may not alter them without asking me first. Also, numbers 61 through 63 look crappy on bright-screened monitors. My computer's screen is not as bright as some so I didn't notice this as I was making them, and for normal screens they look fine. Beware if you use, because I've yet to fix them.
Reminders: Credit ALWAYS! Commenting is not mandatory but it's very nice (hint). Check the userinfo or journal front page for the other rules.

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