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icons for fandom20in20: awesome female characters.

jehnt — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:55:44 GMT

20 awesome female characters for fandom20in20
12 alternates
Extremely multifandom.

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THEMES

Alone	Broken	Blue	Close-Up	Mirror

Pairing	Quote	Texture	Tiny Text	Wide Crop

CATEGORY: SAME (GLASSES)

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

ALTERNATES

#1	#2	#3	#4	#5

#6	#7	#8	#9	#10

#11	#12

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icons. chuck.

jehnt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:49:50 GMT

31 Chuck icons
3 Chuck wallpapers made for lias9 at whedonland (shareable)

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WALLPAPERS:
(1280x1024 and 1440x900)

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icons. stargates.

jehnt — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:53:13 GMT

45 Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis icons

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icons. tim burton's alice in wonderland.

jehnt — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:17:32 GMT

53 Alice in Wonderland icons.

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icon history meme

jehnt — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:55:53 GMT

So, there's this meme where you basically show people your old icons. I only have like twenty posts in this journal, so I'm not going to bother with the ones from here, but the ones from my even older icon journal.

These are from way, way back in 2003. Big trends then were pixel fonts and total fugliness. Mine were fuglier than most. The first icon there is the first I ever made, in MS Paint. I know I also made the JRM "Crazy" icon in Paint. The things I miss from this time is my ability to think of somewhat humorous things to say and my willingness to just go for it with animated icons, which I currently find to be a pain in the ass. But, I mean, come on, the Bothan icon is priceless.

I made some friends-only banners too, which I quickly abandoned because I never use them so have no desire to make them. You can see my burgeoning blending ability here.

These are from 2004. Fugliness continued to prevail, but I gave up on the grid texture (THANK GOD) and learned how to use fonts other than pixel fonts. Some of these I actually still like (the gold bikini one, the Sound of Music one, some of the Tinkerbell ones). That James McAvoy icon (10) has gone through SO MANY variations over the years... I really need to go back and make a new one. For a long time it was purple with scan lines. Oh yeah. You can see the genesis of the way I use text here, as well as my occasional obsession with color washes (though thanks to the blue exclusion layer trend, they weren't very bright here). You can also see my weird bondage phase, which is still going on in my head but thankfully hasn't been committed to graphical form recently. This was also possibly the height of my near-insatiable thirst for fairytales. I have omitted all the Paris Hilton icons because you don't need to know about those.

Compare to some from 2009:

Thank god I improved.

So. Yeah. Those are my hilarious and fugly beginnings as an iconmaker.

icons. star trek: voy, tng, tos, xi.

jehnt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:24:47 GMT

6 Star Trek XI icons + 1 banner thing
6 Star Trek: The Original Series icons
5 Star Trek: The Next Generation icons
16 Star Trek: Voyager icons

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Companion post of DS9 icons is here.

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icons. star trek: deep space nine.

jehnt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:15:24 GMT

62 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine icons
1 wallpaper

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Companion post of other Star Trek series is here.

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banners/wallpapers. star wars.

jehnt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:44:50 GMT

lots of Star Wars banners/header images and wallpapers

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===BANNERS===

===WALLPAPERS===

Most are 1280x1024 and 1440x900, unless stated otherwise.

Companion icon posts are here and here.

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icons. star wars. all except anh.

jehnt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:05:56 GMT

57 Star Wars icons, including OT, PT, and EU.

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Companion posts are here (ANH icons) and here (banners/walls).

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icons. star wars. a new hope.

jehnt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:52:49 GMT

68 Star Wars: A New Hope icons
I got a bit carried away. All my Star Wars icons wouldn't even fit in one post.

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Companion posts are here (icons other than ANH) and here (banners/walls).

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icons. joss whedon shows.

jehnt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:37:31 GMT

57 icons from Angel, Buffy, Dollhouse, Doctor Horrible, and Firefly

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There is also a bunch of Firefly stuff I made here - some icons and fanmixes.

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icons. alias, farscape, lost.

jehnt — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:56:54 GMT

70 icons - Alias, Farscape, Lost.
3 Alias banner things

I feel like every post I make is a big "fuck you" to people who hate variations.

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dollhouse wallpaper

jehnt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:54:19 GMT

1 Dollhouse Wallpaper (Sierra) made for xtitania at whedonland.

1280x800 . 1440x900 . 1280x1024 . 1600x1200

1280x800 . 1440x900 . 1280x1024 . 1600x1200

If you need another resolution, let me know. It's not troublesome at all to change it.

tutorial: stargate atlantis // textures & text

jehnt — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:55:27 GMT

A tutorial requested by library_of_sex for an icon from this post.

Crossposted to icon_tutorial.

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1. Choosing the cap and cropping

This icon was originally made for Round 5, Challenge 6 "Boys Will Be Boys" at lantis_lims. You can go here to see the other entries and some different things that were done with the same screencap.

From the caps available, I quickly chose this cap of John Sheppard as having the most potential for pretty colors, dynamism, and interest.

To start, I cropped it down to 100x100. Initially I cropped it so his entire head was visible, and was planning on putting that in a sea of blue, then I realized that was a stupidly obvious thing to do, and so cropped it so that his nose was in the bottom-left corner, leaving lots of blank space for whatever text, decoration, or other pictures I wanted to put there.

2. Basic coloring/brightening and sharpening

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Here I used curves layers to brighten and color the icon. The colors of the cap were already pretty good, so I didn't need to do much. In the first curves layer, I brightened it considerably, upped the greens by a tad and the blues by a bit more, and dragged down the reds by a tiny bit (like so). For the next curves layer, I decided I wanted more contrast, so I increased the darkness of the very darkest parts, and then increased the brightness of the rest (like this). I'm not giving you the exact numbers because it's the overall arc of the line that's most important, and how it relates to the colors and brightness levels in your individual image.

Then to sharpen the image I used high pass. I copy-merge - ctrl-shift-alt-e (or if you're on a mac, command-shift-alt-e) - to create a new layer that looks like all the layers below it, merged. Then Filter>Other>High Pass with a radius of 0.5, and set it to soft light. Then I copy-merge again just so I have a finished layer I can drag around and alter later, which is important since I want to be cutting John out of the background.

3. Constructing the blue background

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I picked out a bunch of textures by discolore, whose blue textures I am always in love with. I left the first one on Normal, 100% opacity, and set the second two on soft light. This set was only reached, however, after I opened up pretty much every blueish or greenish texture in my folder and dragged it onto the icon and tried a billion layer settings. Uncharacteristically, I then deleted them all, so I can't show you a comical lineup of a billion texture-hopefuls.

The result looked like this:

It's got the basic idea of what I want, but is too light and too cyan. So, to the trusty Hue/Saturation tool! Hue +10 to make it more blue, and Saturation +30 because I want it to be REALLY BLUE.

Still not dark enough. I sort of want to match the blue behind John's head. It's a lovely color, and it's what I want in my icon. I use curves to darken it (like this). Once I do that, it's too grainy. For most things, I'd actually like that, but for this icon I want something softer and smoother, so I blur it several times.

It's still not as dark as I'd like it, so I use another curves layer similar to the previous one to make it even darker. What I end up with is a nice blue with enough variation to be an interesting background.

4. Putting the pieces together

So now we have John and a background. I copy the extra "finalized" John layer from below the background layers (which I put in a group together) and bring it to the top. Now, to get John onto the background, you can use whatever cutting-out technique you most prefer. I use layer masks because they're easy, quick, and forgiving of mistakes. To add a mask to your layer, you can either go to Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal All, or else just hit the button on the layer palette that is like a circle inside of a rectangle. Now, the basic idea of layer masks is that anything that is white on the mask is visible on the layer, and anything that is black is INvisible, like it's been erased. Shades of grey are different levels of visibility. So you make sure you have the layer mask selected, then color with black everywhere you don't want to show (it'll look like you're erasing, but if you mess up, you can just color with white to make it show up again).

This is easy to understand but can be difficult to do sometimes, as people's tendency seems to be not to get close enough in to the subject. You're not going to hurt the pixels or lose them, so don't be afraid to get right up on the line between your subject and the background and then go over it. No one is going to notice that you shaved a pixel or two off someone's hair, but, believe me, people ARE going to notice if you leave a chunky line of the background in your cutout.

His hair is just too much. TOO MUCH. It's throwing the balance of the entire icon and it's all I can look at. So I resize his head so the dark blob of hair takes up less space. Then, because John Sheppard's crazy hair got cut off a little in the cap, I use the smudge tool on tiny tiny size to smudge up some stray strands of hair at the top (look closely for the difference!).

Then I decided that his skin was too red or too dark or something. Selective Color with the Yellows having these settings: 0, -15, -20.

Then, because I like to fade the fuck out of my icons, I added a generic smoky texture on Lighten, 85% opacity. Then I added a curves layer like this to bring back a little contrast.

Then I added a pretty standard thing I do, #2c2114 on Exclusion 100% opacity, #b2b2a3 on Color Burn 30% opacity, and then a curves layer with settings 180,160 and 0,35 (output,input) - the whole thing in a group on 25% opacity.

These differences may look small, but I think it's the tinkering that can often make or break a good idea.

5. Adding text (aka, the hardest part)

I am going to start this out by saying I HAVE NO EFFING CLUE WHAT I AM EVER DOING WITH TEXT, EVER. I always go into it completely confused, make a billion different layers saying different things in different ways, resize them and move them around, change colors/layer settings/opacity/whatever, and generally make a mess of my entire layers palette. Which is why I actually usually do it in a different file.

Just in case you think I'm lying about trying out a billion things, look at this:

That is my cleaned up layer palette, with only the text layers that I thought were actual options remaining.

So, when I decided to put text on the icon, I was listening to my Supernatural playlist, and Kansas's "Carry On My Wayward Son" came on and I decided the lyrics sort of fit John Sheppard and the tone of the icon. It's VERY RARE that I am able to so quickly come up with words that fit, so this was something pretty strange and spectacular for me.

The particular lyrics I liked most were these:

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high

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Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man
Then it surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune

So I picked a font, 078MKSD (which fit the sleek look I was going for with the icon), and started typing.

The first thing I came up with was this:

But you know what's amazing? SLANTY TEXT. Oh Rotate tool, here I come.

I wasn't quite satisfied. I tried more text, less text, bigger text, DIFFERENT text, all manner of things. Here's a sampling of the many things I tried:

I decided I liked the one that said "If I claim to be a wise man" best. I'm not sure why, but it probably has something to do with the light text offsetting and balancing the dark of John's hair. But the thing I didn't like about it? A LOT OF BLANK SPACE. Since I have a weird crop, I can't really leave your focus jumping from John's cornernose to hover on the text and then back to the nose. The text needs to be like BAM and the back of John's head should be just another decoration. Which means... more decorations are needed!

6. Decorating the goddamned thing

By this point I was sick of making this icon. I hated it. It had to be finished and submitted soon, but I just wanted to go to sleep. There was no way on earth I was going to go trawling through texture or stock folders to find things that would fit. I didn't know what was needed, as I was tired and my brain was photoshop-fried, so I couldn't draw it by hand. What to do, what to do?

OH WAIT.

WE HAVE THINGS WE CAN USE TO ADD DECORATIONS ALREADY.

Where? you may ask.

Don't we have a cap? Don't we have a billion discarded text layers? CORRECT ON BOTH COUNTS.

The first thing I decided to do was spice up the background by smashing my second-favorite text layer into the thing on softlight.

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The other thing you should know at this point is that my text isn't white, it's a light blue set to screen. I find that using a color set to some sort of layer thingy often gives you more options in terms of the look of the text... though I'm also a big fan of white. Anyway, at this point, I was noticing that the text on top was kind of difficult to read and looked scratchy on the soft-light layer, so I duplicated it and put that layer on screen 40% opacity.

At this point I apparently decided that the icon was too sharp, because I copy-merged, blurred that layer, then set it to 32% opacity.

So then I wanted to add some splashes of color. I decided I was going to use the original cap, or something like it, on lighten. When I first dragged it on, it was too recognizable, so I altered it using curves layers to these things (click for full size):

After some fiddling around, moving them, resizing them, trying them on different layer settings and opacities, etc, I ended up with these things on my icons like so:

You may recognize them as John's hair + wall, John's ear + neck, and John's forehead + nose. They were set on lighten 100%, screen 60%, and screen 20%, to give a nice balance of color splashes. John's ear was masked out of the layer it was on, since the pink spot it made just looked out of place. If we get into rationalizing these choices - I liked the pinkish blob the first one added (it also added a bunch of other little spots, but I liked that one best), and I wanted another in the top right corner. After that, I wanted something at the center of the top to make that text blend in more.

7. Final touches

IT'S DONE, IT'S DONE, you may think. Except not.

I mean, look at those crazy sharp pixels on his eyelid. wtf is that? Why is it there? Why hasn't it been gotten rid of? So I head to my tiny smudge brush and smudge until it's doing something acceptable. Like blending in with the other colors.

Then - is his skin too saturated? Maybe it's too saturated. Hue/Saturation, saturation -10, then mask away everything except his face. Not a huge difference, but it's enough for me (but then, I'm a tinkerer).

Slap a black&white gradient map on it to ensure that the dark to light ratio is pretty good...

(That's actually something I do all along - If I don't I sometimes make icons that... look funny. idk, there's something about the b&w gradient map layer that forces me to ensure there's a good range of brightness.)

And... that's it. I run out of things to correct, so the icon is finished.

I hope you like this and it's helpful.

I will not give out the psd, so please do not ask. I have taken the time to write out all the stops and why I did them, and it is my belief that is far more useful for learning than the PSD would be.

fanart, doctor horrible

jehnt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:59:06 GMT

A wanted poster made for a contest at whedonland.

(click for the bigger version)

icons. stargate atlantis.

jehnt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:50:54 GMT

85 Stargate Atlantis icons

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icons. battlestar galactica.

jehnt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:41:13 GMT

78 Battlestar Galactica icons
1 banner thing

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banner thing:

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two buffy tutorials

jehnt — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:02:47 GMT

Two Buffy tutorials requested by noctems of icons from this post, of caps from 7x01 "Beneath You." They're rather similar, but I thought I'd do tutorials for them both anyway in case it benefits anyone to see how the methods for each icon are similar and different.

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1. So we start with this screencap from the Freeze Frame Network. To me it seemed to just beg for a center crop.

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I cropped it down using the crop tool.

(Yeah, due to the difference in color I'm not sure that actually from the same cap, but it was the closest I could find.)

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It was too dark, so I duplicated the base layer three times and set them all on screen. You'll notice two things: it's yellow, there's a ton of gross pixelation in the parts of the image that were originally black.

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To fix the yellow, I floodfilled a layer with color #0072bc (a bright blue) and put it on color, 8%. (Linked to the color so if you have Colorzilla you can just eyedropper that shit.)

To fix the grainy parts and make the background black again, I used the curves tool. I wanted to make the dark parts darker and the mid-levels brighter, so I dragged the bottom corner point to the right and then created a point in the middle and dragged it up a little, like so. I didn't mess with any of the color channels.

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Since I wanted Buffy's face to be at the center of an otherwise-mostly-dark icon, I copy-merged all my layers to a new layer (ctrl-shift-alt-e) and then floodfilled the layer below it with black. After that, I erased the lingering non-black parts around Buffy. If your image doesn't already have a background that matches the one you want, you'll have to do a lot more erasing. I just had to erase the top and some around the edges.

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I use high pass for sharpening, usually with a radius of 0.5 or 1. I like the results more than other sharpening methods, but ymmv. For this icon, I copy-merged, then filter>other>high pass, with a radius of 1, then set that layer on soft light.

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For the next step, I brightened it up a little bit, using a method I was obsessssssssssed with like two years ago when I made this, haha. It's a selective color layer, with input like this:

Red: -100, 0, 100
Yellow: 0, -70, -100

I suspect I was also trying to remove a bit of the orangeyness, which is why I didn't add that red and yellow back in the neutrals, which is what I usually did. If you're not using photoshop, I believe there are alternatives to selective color you can use to remove the orangeyness. Like if you have anything akin to color balance or variations, those would work just as well, as would the individual color channels in levels and curves.

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I thought the difference between the black background and the still-orangey brightness of Buffy was too stark, so I decided to make the entire icon browner. I did this by floodfilling a layer with color #311800 (a medium-dark brown) and setting it to exclusion. This makes the blacks brown (the color of the layer) and the whites a light blue (the inverse color of the layer). It's one of my favorite ways to soften the look of an icon, though usually I don't do it so drastically.

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Remember in the beginning of the tutorial where I said I wanted the emphasis in this icon to be on Buffy's face and ponytail in the middle of a sea of darkness? With the icon like this, I noticed I had a problem. It was too bright at the bottom. Additionally, it looked flat. There was no dimensionality and that made it uninteresting. So I found a texture by blimey_icons that suited, and set it on color burn at 40% opacity to darken it up a little.

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Since scratch textures were all the rage at the time, I added one and set it on screen at 40%. I have no clue who made it, so if you happen to know, please tell me so I can properly credit them, because this is one I use A LOT.

And that's it.

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1. Not gonna lie, I totally made this icon because I liked the previous one so much. I was trying to do the same thing but with a picture where you can see her face. So it's not much different, which is why it doesn't merit a separate post. I started off with this cap. Again, this one is from the Freeze Frame Network and I'm not sure it's the actual one I used for the icon given how the colors differ.

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So I cropped it down like so. I'm a huge fan of this sort of center crop with the person's head around the middle of the icon and a lot of negative space. A HUUUUUUUUUUUGE fan. Like, probably over half the icons I make have this crop. I am lamely obsessed with it. I admire other people's creative cropping, but when it comes right down to it, I'm gonna crop like this, and I'm gonna LIKE it.

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To brighten it up, I copied the base twice and put the layers on screen, one at 100% opacity and one at 50% opacity.

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It looked a little flat, so I needed to increase the contrast. Now, the last thing I wanted to do was increase the contrast in any way that would amp up that unnatural lavender coloring she's got going on. So I created a gradient map layer that went from color #382009 (brown) to white, and set it on soft light. That not only gave the picture more contrast, but also worked a little on making the colors warmer.

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Since I wanted a black background, I made a new layer and colored over all the non-black parts of the picture with a black paintbrush.

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I wanted to give Buffy a more natural coloring, so her skin didn't look purple but instead skin-colored. So I needed to increase yellows/reds and decrease blues/cyans. I used color balance, with these settings:

Midtones: 0, -33, -100 (to increase magentas and yellows in the middle tones)
Shadows: +10, 0, +20 (to increase reds and blues in the dark tones)

It's not like I had these specific numbers in mind though, usually I just open up color balance and start dragging things around wildly until I like what I see.

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Because at this time I was obsessed with selective color, as I said in the last tutorial, I made a selective color layer that had these settings:

Reds: -100, 0, 100
Yellows: 0, 0, -100

And put it on 50% opacity.

If you don't have selective color or don't like it, I'd just skip this step. Didn't make a huge difference in this icon.

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Like with the last icon, I decided the difference between the person and the background was a bit stark. For this one, I floodfilled a new layer with color #603913 (a medium brown) and set it to lighten, 10% opacity. It's not a HUGE difference but sometimes the subtle differences are what make the icon.

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So, again, scratch textures were IN at this time. I added that one and set it on screen at 60%, then masked away all the parts over Buffy (and you can see that little mistake where I was trying to mask in white but clicked the wrong layer). If you're not comfortable with layer masking, you can just erase. Once again I don't know the maker of this one (and can't even find the original), but I'd guess it's made by whoever did this guy because they look similar. And again, I'd LOVE to know who made them.

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The icon was just a tad too bright for me where I used the texture, so I floodfilled a layer with color #dadbcf (a cream sort of thing), set it on multiply, and then masked out (or erased, your choice) the part over Buffy.

Then I decided I was done with the icon because I didn't know what to do next even though I still thought it needed something, lol. It happens sometimes.

I hope you like this and it's helpful.

I will not give out the psd, so please don't ask. It's far less useful than the tutorial anyway since some of the steps were merged down and had to be recreated.

bones icons.

jehnt — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:32:13 GMT

71 Bones icons from episode 4x01, including some variations

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

comment, credit, you know the drill.
if you like what you see, feel free to friend the community for updates.

disney icon battle!

jehnt — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:22:37 GMT

Another icon battle!

disney_darling vs jehnt
vs

OVER HERE

icons, headers, wallpapers. action movies + hp.

jehnt — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:16:20 GMT

16 Dirty Harry icons [plus banners and a wallpaper]
4 Harry Potter icons
2 Infernal Affairs icons [plus wallpapers]
18 Ocean's 11 icons

Icon 13 was for icon_battle, and the battle can be found HERE.

Infernal Affairs is the pretty excellent movie The Departed was based on, and I definitely recommend it above its remake.

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

Dirty Harry Banners and Wallpaper:

Infernal Affairs Wallpapers:

[ and in widescreen ]

[ and in widescreen ]

[ and in widescreen ]

comment, credit, you know the drill.
if you like what you see, feel free to friend the community for updates.

gift art for musesfool's spn girl!sam au stories

jehnt — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:34:23 GMT

Fanart/icons for musesfool's Supernatural girl!Sam AU fics, particularly Built for Hurricanes and This One Laughing Quietly.

(click for the bigger versions)

miscellaneous icon-related things

jehnt — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:45:19 GMT

the icon crit meme

I am HERE, and I'd really love comments/concrit.

Also, I did an icon_battle with misstress_tink! The post is HERE. Comments are appreciated and I know that I for one always welcome concrit.

misstress_tink vs jehnt
vs

icons, wallpaper + header. fantasy films: narnia, lotr, and penelope.

jehnt — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:15:31 GMT

31 Chronicles of Narnia icons (movies & actors)
1 Aslan wallpaper and header
7 Lord of the Rings icons
19 Penelope icons (James McAvoy & Christina Ricci)

A handful of these are from 2005... it's pretty awkward that I haven't posted them until now. But since I'm trying to post everything I make here, you can lol at them or something.

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header image of the wallpaper (700x300)

comment, credit, you know the drill.

tutorial: dear god, no! aka, how to butcher your icon in ten easy steps.

jehnt — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:10:09 GMT

Have you ever wanted to make an icon that was creative, unique, and memorable? Have you ever wondered how people make icons that stick in your memory days after you seen them? Icons whose specters you just can't be rid of? Icons so glorious that you may never look at an icon the same way again?

If you have, this tutorial is for you.

I, Jehnt, have braved the uncharted territories of icon_tutorial (and other, much less reputable communities) to bring you the latest (and not-so-latest) advances in retina-burning, eye-scarring, "oh god, I'll need to dig my eyeballs out with a spork" icon creation.

BEHOLD:

to or

effects used:
bird effect, rainbow effect, squares effect, flower effect, shiny effect, pink blob effect, sharpen effect, gorgeous blue effect, black effect, and lines effect.

I'm not sure if it's translatable so if you use PSP or GIMP you may just be SOL.

And special thanks to iconrants, without whom this would not have been possible.

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Get your original picture and crop it. Mine is a picture of a gorgeous yet jailbaity male model whose eyebrows annoyingly don't match his hair. But like whatever! Because we're totally going to transform him.

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He looked a bit pale and colorless, so we're going to make a new selective color layer with these values:

Reds, -100, +100, +100.
Yellows, -100, 0, +100.

(To create a selective color layer, on the layers palette you click the little circle of "Create New Adjustment Layer" and then pick "selective color" from the fly-up box.)

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With your brush or pencil on 1 px, draw a line around him in the color of his suit! (To draw a line, you click and carefully drag your mouse along where you want the line to be.)

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Select the color black and choose a soft brush on a decent size like 19 or 27 px. Paint around him in black (to paint, you click and drag while the paintbrush is selected). To get your lines to show up, drag them above the black layer and then click Image>Adjustments>Invert.

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Blue is in right now, and our model needs more of it!. Make a new channel mix layer and put your settings like so:

Red, +70, -26, +6
Green, -14, +100, -4
Blue, +6, 0, +100

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Add a flower to make him beautiful! Mine is a transparent png by Timounette, so I just had to drag it onto my icon and resize until it fit in his hair!

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Add a texture for visual interest. This is also by Timounette and I just put it on screen.

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The colors didn't really "pop," so I added a hue/saturation layer of saturation +40.

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We want to add some little squares. The way to do that is to pick your rectangle tool, shift-click and drag to create a square, and then duplicate it once. Drag it several pixels over and floodfill it with a different color. Right click on the duplicate layer and merge down. Now you should have a layer with TWO squares on it. Duplicate that layer, move it a few pixels up, and floodfill the squares with different colors.

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A lot of people are using the "shiny" effect right now. To get it, pick a tan color, color over the picture a bit with the soft brush, and then use Gaussian Blur (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur) on a setting of about 10 or so to soften it. To get the pink light, select a hot pink color and then just stamp a circle on with the 45 or 65 px soft brush. Set both layers to screen.

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To get the bird, go to photoshop's custom shapes. From the dropdown shape menu, click the animal set. Shift-click and drag so that your bird stays properly-proportioned. To get that rainbow effect, go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Pattern, check the box that says "Use previous layer to create clipping mask" or something similar (what that does is makes it so the new layer will only cover the areas that the previous layer covers, so it won't alter the colors of the background or anything), and then hit okay. When the dialog box pops up, you can pick a pattern selection. The rainbow is one of photoshop's defaults.

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Sharpen a few times and you're done!

Cross-posted to icon_tutorial.

And please, kids, remember that this is an example of how to butcher your icon, not how to make it pretty. Only follow this tutorial if you want your icon to die a protracted, ignoble death.

p.s. - my real icon tutorial was far more decent.

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