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And what visage are you in now, what, holy tax accountant?

cerberusk — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:13:21 GMT

Ok, I haven't posted in forever. Wanna know why? Because I can no longer make icons. They all suck. However, after last nights new episode of Supernatural, I decided that Castiel needs to be iconed because he's freaking awesome. So, here are my super crappy, supernatural icons. Most are just variations of the same image. Hopefully sometime soon I'll be able to make semi-good looking icons again. *fingers crossed*

16 Supernatural 4.01 (all Castiel)

teasers

castiel

1	2	3	4	5	6

7	8	9	10	11	12

13	14	15	16

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33 wallpapers :o

cerberusk — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:56:54 GMT

So, I've been pretty lax about updating this. SORRY. Anywhoo, I finally got around to uploading some wallpapers I've made, and I've finally decided to post them here. Please do not edit these or anything. Ask for a different size if you need it.
Please comment if downloading.

5 Alias
1 Arrested Development
3 Bones
4 Friday Night Lights
2 Gilmore Girls
3 Grey's Anatomy
6 House
2 Prison Break
3 Movies (Spiderman, Juno, Pirates of the Carribean)
4 Celebs (Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Heath Ledger, Scarlett Johannson)

teasers

alias
1. Easy On You- Jack Bristow
2. First Day- Thomas Grace
3. Stunning- Michael Vaughn & Sydney Bristow
4. Building A Mystery- Michael Vaughn & Sydney Bristow
5. Bang- Michael Vaughn & Sydney Bristow

arrested development
1. King- George Michael Bluth

bones
1. Only You- Seeley Booth & Temperance Brennan
2. Criminal Baby- Seeley Booth & Temperance Brennan
3. Stars in their Eyes- Seeley Booth & Temperance Brennan

friday night lights
1. Used to be Friends- Tyra Collette, Lyla Garrity, Tim Riggins & Jason Street
2. Clear Eyes, Full Hearts- Coach Eric Taylor, Matt Saracen, Lyla Garrity, Jason Street, Smash, Tim Riggins
3. Golden Couple- Jason Street & Lyla Garrity
4. Something I Deserve- Tim Riggins & Tyra Collette

gilmore girls
1. Wherever You Are- Luke Danes & Lorelai Gilmore
2. Mess of Emotions- Jess Mariano & Rory Gilmore

grey's anatomy
1. Stay With Me- Alex Karev & Izzie Stevens
2. Whole Wide World- Mark Sloane & Addison Montgomery
3. It's Been Awhile- Mark Sloane & Addison Montgomery

house
1. Blue Christmas- Gregory House & Lisa Cuddy
2. No Joy in Christmas- Gregory House & Lisa Cuddy
3. Wedding Bells- Gregory House & Lisa Cuddy
4. We Were in Love- Gregory House & Lisa Cuddy
5. Wind Me Up- Gregory House & Lisa Cuddy
6. Everything You Want- Robert Chase & Allison Cameron

prison break
1. The Doctor and the Convict- Michael Scofield & Sara Tancredi
2. Falling For You- Michael Scofield & Sara Tancredi

movies
1. Loneliness I Live- Spiderman
2. Juno- Paulie Bleeker & Juno McGuff
3. Your Lips- Will Turner & Elizabeth Swann

celebs
1. Justin Timberlake
2.Britney Spears
3. Heath Ledger
4. Scarlett Johansson

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celeb20in20 adrienne palicki

cerberusk — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:16:50 GMT

20 icons of Adrianne Palicki for celeb20in20

10 THEMES

Close up	Cute	Devious	Lines	Lonely


Rainbow	Shocked	Smile	Vintage	Vogue

5 CATEGORY - Magazine Covers

category #1	category #2	category #3	category #4	category #5

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

Artist's Choice #1	Artist's Choice #2	Artist's Choice #3	Artist's Choice #4	Artist's Choice #5

coloring tutorial 3

cerberusk — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:00:06 GMT

How to go from this

to

WITHOUT SELECTIVE COLORING!!!

THIS COLORING DOES NOT WORK WITH ALL IMAGES!!!!

This is just a basic, boring tutorial of how to brighten up screencaps.

Start out with your image. I'm going to start out with a screencap of Rory from Gilmore Girls. Screencaps are from Home of the Nutty.

Crop and resize your image.

It's a pretty picture, and seems like it has nice underlying colors, so basically what we want to do is brighten it and increase the contrast. First what you should do as with pretty much any screencap is duplicate the layer and set the duplicate to screen.

Brighter, but not contrasted enough... So select all of your image and go to Edit: Copy Merged then paste and set this layer to Overlay

Next we want to add some coloring, so we're going to add dark blue layer set to difference (or exclusion dependent on your icon and how you want it to look. difference adds more contrast.) right on top of the base. I used #05102C.
layer order:
base-normal
dark blue- difference
duplicate of base- screen
merged base- overlay

->

Then we're going to add a light blue, I used #D0F7FF and set it above the exclusion layer and set it to color burn.
layer order:
base- normal
dark blue- diffence
light blue- color burn
duplicate of base- screen
merged base- overlay
->

Now dependent on your icon you can skip this step or modify it. We want to brighten the icon up so we're going to duplicate the screen layer a couple times. I duplicated mine 4 times.
layer order:
base- normal
dark blue- diffence
light blue- color burn
duplicate of base- screen x5
merged base- overlay

Now we're going to bring out the colors a little more and brighten it up a bit. We're going to add a light pink layer set at soft light. I used #FFD0DE
layer order:
base- normal
dark blue- diffence
light blue- color burn
duplicate of base- screen x5
pink- softlight
merged base- overlay
->

Now again for added contrast, duplicate your base one more time and set it on top of the pink layer, set this to soft light.
layer order:
base- normal
dark blue- diffence
light blue- color burn
duplicate of base- screen x5
pink- softlight
duplicate of base- softlight
merged base- overlay

Next we need to add more contrast and get rid of the yellowish color so we're going to add a dark brown layer, I used #3E1903, and set it to difference.
layer order:
base- normal
dark blue- diffence
light blue- color burn
duplicate of base- screen x5
pink- softlight
duplicate of base- softlight
dark brown-diffence
merged base- overlay
->

You're done! Now just edit to your liking. I sharpened the base and a screen layer a couple times and added a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer setting the saturation at +20 to intensify the colors.

VIOLA. NOW YOU HAVE A BRIGHT, SIMPLE ICON :]

Enjoy and Feel free to ask any questions you have! :]

Other Gilmore Girls Examples:

EXAMPLES OF THIS COLORING IN VARIOUS FANDOMS!
some are modified a little :]

alias	bones	friday night lights	grey's anatomy

one tree hill	the oc	the office	smallville

coloring tutorial 2

cerberusk — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:28:27 GMT

Requested by impress_mebaby

How to go from this

to

THIS COLORING DOES NOT WORK WITH ALL IMAGES!!!!

Start out with your image. I'm going to start out with a picture of Mila Kunis most known as Jackie on That 70s Show the picture is from Mila Kunis Central.

This type of coloring works best with less yellows in the original picture, however, too much yellow can always be modified.

Crop it how you would like and resize it to 200x200 (Or 100x100, I just like starting larger because it makes the image more crisp in my opinion)

Now, since we're trying to yellow her up a bit, and take out the blues, we're going to add an exclusion layer. This also decreases the contrast. So, make a new layer, color fill with a dark blue suchas #00074A and set it to Exclusion at 40% (this can vary based on your image)

Not a huge difference, but it will help later. Now it's looking all ugly and blah. So we're going to duplicate the base image (the one of mila) and set it to Screen around 30% and move it above your exclusion layer. So layer order should be:
MILA- SCREEN 30%
DARK BLUE- EXCLUSION 40%
MILA BASE- NORMAL 100%
Again, this doesn't make a huge difference but will in the long run.

Now comes the fun part. Selective coloring.
REDS;_{Cyan: -100%
Magneta: 0%
Yellow: 100%
Black: 0%}

YELLOWS;_{Cyan: -100%
Magneta: -100%
Yellow: -100%
Black: 0%}

CYANS;_{Cyan: 100%
Magneta: 0%
Yellow: 0%
Black: 0%}

MAGENTAS;_{Cyan: 100%
Magneta: 100%
Yellow: 100%
Black: 100%}

NEUTRALS;_{Cyan: -3%
Magneta: -2%
Yellow: 10%
Black: 3%}

You should end up with something like this...

Now, time for another selective coloring layer.
REDS;_{Cyan: -13%
Magneta: 49%
Yellow: 42%
Black: 10%}

CYANS;_{Cyan: -100%
Magneta: -37%
Yellow: -40%
Black: -83%}

WHITES;_{Cyan: 35%
Magneta: 0%
Yellow: 0%
Black: 0%}

NEUTRALS;_{Cyan: 26%
Magneta: 0%
Yellow: 0%
Black: 0%}

BLACKS;_{Cyan: 100%
Magneta: 13%
Yellow: -4%
Black: 20%}

Now you should have something along the lines of this

One more selective coloring layer, last one, I promise!
REDS;_{Cyan: -11%
Magneta: 13%
Yellow: 7%
Black: -17%}

YELLOWS;_{Cyan: 55%
Magneta: 27%
Yellow: 27%
Black: 0%}

CYANS;_{Cyan: 100%
Magneta: 0%
Yellow: 0%
Black: 0%}

WHITES;_{Cyan: 34%
Magneta: 0%
Yellow: 0%
Black: 0%}

NEUTRALS;_{Cyan: 20%
Magneta: 13%
Yellow: 3%
Black: -5%}

BLACKS;_{Cyan: 100%
Magneta: 0%
Yellow: 0%
Black: -3%}

YAY. Coloring is done. Now you should have something like this.

At this point you may resize your icon if its still at 200x200, however for the purpose of the tutorial I'm going to leave mine at this size. What I do next is go back to the base layer and use the blur tool set on a soft brush at 20% and blur her skin, only the skin, don't mess with her eyes or hair.

Then sharpen once. If you don't think it's sharp enough but sharpening a second time makes it too sharp, what I like to do is sharpen the screen layer, that way it becomes sharper but you can control how sharp. In the end I end up with this

TADA. NOW YOU HAVE A PRETTY, SHINY, CRISP ICON :]

Enjoy and Feel free to ask any questions you have! Also I'd love to see results! :]

hold me darlin just a little while...

cerberusk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:09:09 GMT

So. This is my FIRST EVER FANMIX!!! YAYYYY! Lol. So it's Ryan Atwood and Marissa Cooper from The OC because as screwed up as they are, I love them to death.

Just a quick note, the tracklisting in the .rar is wrong, the songs changed because we couldn't seem to find them anywhere.

AND A HUGE THANK YOU TO digitaldreams WHO UPLOADED ALL THE SONGS AND MADE THE RAR. THANK YOU!!

Alright. Enough of that, onto the mix. please comment if downloading and ENJOY!

1. beautiful disaster- jon mclaughlin
She's giving boys what they want
Tries to act so nonchalant
Afraid to see that she's lost her direction
She never stays the same for long
Assuming that she'll get it wrong
Perfect only in her imperfection

General Marissa song... she's screwed up. Lol, there's not really much else to say.

2. same girl- jack johnson
If you could read my mind
You'd say baby you're right
And I don't wanna fight anymore
You're usually righter than I am
And I'm not a very good fighter
And my, neither are you

Ryan: Ok, I have to pick wisely, ding-dongs or cheesesticks?
Marissa: I don’t care, pick whatever
Ryan: Well, I don’t care either so…
Marissa: So I guess we’ll just starve...
Ryan: Are you ever gonna stop being mad at me?
Marissa: I’m not mad at you
Ryan: Right
Marissa: I mean, why would I be mad at you?
Ryan: Because you walked in on me with another girl.
Marissa: Actually, I think she was a woman. And why would I care about that?
Ryan: I dunno, shouldn’t be a problem
Marissa: There’s no problem
Ryan: Except…ding-dongs or cheesesticks
Marissa: I don’t care ryan, I don’t care about ding-dongs and I don’t care about cheesesticks and I really don’t care that I walked in on you with another girl…woman, whatever
Ryan: The only reason I was with her was because you were clearly back with Luke.
Marissa: I was not back with Luke
Ryan: Well you are now right?
Marissa: Right so we’ll just get to Mexico, split up and we never have to see each other again.
Ryan: Sounds like a plan
Marissa: Did you ever wonder why I came to the pool house to find you?
Ryan: Everyday. Here’s your chance, clear the air, tell me.
Marissa: Cheesesticks, I hate ding-dongs

3. romeo & juliet- the killers (cover of dire straits)
Well, you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah
Now you just say, "Oh, Romeo, yeah, you know
I used to have a scene with him"

Marissa: Who are you?
Ryan: Whoever you want me to be.
yes. this is the most overused ryan/marissa quote ever :)

4. i want you- bob dylan
I wasn't born to lose you.
I want you, I want you,
I want you so bad,
Honey, I want you.

Marissa: This song reminds me of you.
Ryan: I thought you were with Luke.
Marissa: I was... I don't know why I'm here, I just wanted to see you... I mean, you're leaving tomorrow!... and what if I never... we never... maybe I could spend the night? Just to hang out...
Ryan: You can't stay. If you stay, if we spend the night... I... I don't know that I could leave.
Marissa: Well, then don't!
Ryan: Ya, and you'll go back to school in the fall, and I'll just what? Hang around here? Hiding like some ghost? Cops find me and I'll have to disappear again? We're from different worlds.
Marissa: That's not true.
Ryan: I'm not like you. Go. Please... go.

5. in the sun- joseph arthur
I don't know anymore
What it's for
I'm not even sure
If there is anyone who is in the sun
Will you help me to understand
'Cause i been caught in between all I wish for and all I need
Maybe you're not even sure what it's for
Any more than me

Kirsten: (asking about Ryan) Do you guys still talk?
Marissa: Not really. We used to, but it just sort of made everything harder.

6. f.n.t.- semisonic
I'm surprised that you've never been told before
That you're lovely and you're perfect
And that somebody wants you

Ryan: (talking about marissa) I don't really have a choice, since she's my girlfriend.
Seth: What? Girlfriend? Thought that you didn't do girlfriends. Well I mean you did 'em, but, you know.

7. beautiful- 10 years
Visioning are stimulating to my eyes
Your Cinderella syndrome, full of lies
Your insecurities are concealed by your pride
Pretty soon your eager will kill what's left inside

Marissa: It got a little outta control.
Ryan: It always does with you. You spent all last year trying to drag me down with you, and now her (lindsay)... You wanna make a mess outta your own life fine, you're doing a pretty good job of it if you ask me.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Ryan: I don’t think she’s lying to me... I think she might be lying to herself.

8. drugs or me- jimmy eat world
Stay with me
You're the one that I need
You make the hardest things
Seem easy
Keep my heart
Somewhere drugs don't go
Where the sunshine slows
Always keep me close

Ryan: There's drinking, crying, and cops. It must be Christmas.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Ryan: How much you drink huh?
Lindsay: I don’t know, as much as Marissa?
Ryan: That's a lot.

9. what goes around- justin timberlake
Hey girl
Is he everything you wanted in a man?
You know I gave you the world,
You had me in the palm of your hand
So why your love went away?
I just can't seem to understand
Thought it was me and you baby...
Me and you until the end, but I guess I was wrong

Summer: (to marissa about ryan) Just explain it to him. He left. And suddenly there was a hot, hot yard guy in the yard, who was hot.

10. kryptonite- 3 doors down
You called me strong, you called me weak,
But still your secrets I will keep.
You took for granted all the times
I never let you down.

Summer: Well, you gotta admit Coop, no matter what happens – Ryan facing off with Trey to avenge your honor? It’s pretty freaking hot. In like, a mythic biblical Samurai Western kind of way.
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Summer: Volchok is Atwood’s kryptonite. He’ll totally Hulk out

11. over and over- 3 days grace
So many thoughts that I can't get out of my head
I try to live without you, every time I do I feel dead
I know what's best for me
But I want you instead
I'll keep on wasting all my time

Seth: Ryan and Marissa haven’t broken up in weeks, its gotta be a new record."
Summer: I know, but I feel a break up coming, I have a sixth sense about those two.
Seth: Well they break up they get back together, whatever, it’s their natural cycle it has to do with the tide."

12. tears in heaven- eric clapton
Would you know my name
if I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
if I saw you in heaven?
I must be strong and carry on
'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven...

Ryan: I don't care about him. I don't care about anyone. And I don't want to start.
Julie: That's, that's a lie. Ryan, that's... I know you. Even if you didn't come to her funeral, or you've never visited her grave, you still CARE.
ok. so the quote doesnt seem to fit well with the song... but the way i see it, after marissa died, ryan did everything he could to keep her off his mind, and also did dangerous things, in my opinion i think he sort of almost wanted to die, he knew the risks and that was why he was willing to take them. to see her again.

13. last kiss- pearl jam
Oh where, oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven, so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

We were out on a date in my daddy's car,
we hadn't driven very far.
There in the road, straight ahead,
a car was stalled, the engine was dead.
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right.
I'll never forget, the sound that night--
the screamin tires, the bustin glass,
the painful scream that I-- heard last.

Oh where, oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven, so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

When I woke up, the rain was pourin down.
There were people standin all around.
Somethin warm flowin through my eyes,
but somehow I found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said,
"Hold me darlin just a little while."
I held her close, I kissed her--our last kiss.
I'd found the love that I knew I had missed.
Well now she's gone, even though I hold her tight.
I lost my love, my life-- that night.

Oh where, oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me.
She's gone to heaven so I've got to be good,
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

Ok. So basically after I saw the scene where Marissa died I immediately thought of this song, every time it comes on the radio I think of that song, and every time I think about Ryan and Marissa I think about this song.

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Please let me know what you think!!

don't cha wish your girlfriend was me?

cerberusk — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:59:53 GMT

More of old icons from copperbooom and a couple of new ones too!

32 Lisa Edelstein
23 Angelina Jolie
31 Jennifer Garner
13 Katherine Heigl
10 Kate Walsh
14 Misc. Actresses (Megan Fox, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Love-Hewitt, Emilie DeRaven, Mischa Barton)

teasers

lisa edelstein

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

angelina jolie

1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23

jennifer garner

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

katherine heigl

1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12
13

kate walsh

1		2		3		4		5		6
7		8		9		10

misc. actresses

1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14

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lonely and dreaming of the west coast

cerberusk — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:37:04 GMT

So. I haven't posted icons in pretty much forever... so I figured I should. However, I don't even have the common courtesy to post new icons (because I haven't really even made any good ones lately. So here are a bunch of old ones that were posted over at copperbooom

122 Grey's Anatomy
61 The OC
32 Gilmore Girls
10 Arrested Development

teasers

grey's anatomy

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	66
67	68	69	70	71	72
73	74	75	76	77	78
79	80	81	82	83	84
85	86	87	88	89	90
91	92	93	94	95	96
97	98	99	100	101	102
103	104	105	106	107	108
109	110	111	112	113	114
115	116	117	118	119	120
121	122

the oc

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

gilmore girls

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

arrested development

1		2		3		4		5		6
7		8		9		10

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coloring tutorial

cerberusk — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:44:19 GMT

How to go from this

to

THIS COLORING DOES NOT WORK WITH ALL IMAGES!!!!

Start out with your image. I'm going to start out with a screencap of Tyra from Friday Night Lights. Screencaps are from In A Dream.

Crop it how you would like and resize it to 200x200 (Or 100x100, I just like starting larger because it makes the image more crisp in my opinion)

Pretty picture of Tyra, but wayyyy too dark. So, let's lighten it up a bit eh? Duplicate your layer and set it to screen. You now have this...

Brighter, but not contrasted enough... So select all of your image and go to Edit: Copy Merged then paste and set this layer to Soft Light

Next we want to add some coloring, so we're going to add a selective coloring layer with these settings:
CYANS;_{Cyan: 100%
Magneta: -100%
Yellow: -100%
Black: 100%}

BLUES;_{Cyan: 100%
Magneta: -100%
Yellow: -100%
Black: 100%}

NEUTRALS;_{Cyan: -33%
Magneta: 12%
Yellow: 26%
Black: -11%}

You should end up with something like this...

Looks better already, but I'd like to have it a little sharper. So, go back to your screen layer and sharpen. I like to sharpen the screen layer because you can sharpen it without over sharpening the whole icon.

We're getting there, but I feel the icon is still too dark, so I duplicate the screen layer (keeping it under the softlight layer)

Then just for fun, I sharpen the new duplicated screen layer once.

Now we're in the home stretch. Resize your icon to 100x100

Now, just for my own personal preference I like sharp, crisp icons. So I sharpen the screen layer one more time.

Then, again, for my personal preference, I dont like how sharp the background is so I use the smudge tool to sharpen it on the base layer. Not that much of a difference, but I like it better.

VIOLA. NOW YOU HAVE A BRIGHT, SHINY, CRISP ICON :]

Enjoy and Feel free to ask any questions you have! :]

Other Friday Night Light Examples:

EXAMPLES OF THIS COLORING IN VARIOUS FANDOMS!
some are modified a little :]

arrested development	bones	grey's anatomy	lost

the oc	the office	prison break	smallville

lighten tutorial

cerberusk — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:42:13 GMT

How to go from these

to

or

There are a few different ways you can make this. All is subject to your idea. This is just a basic guideline, and I am going to show what you can end up doing. The pictures are not the highest quality, and I was just trying to go fast so this is not by any means perfect.

THIS TECHNIQUE DOES NOT WORK WITH ALL IMAGES!!!!

Start out with two images... they can be of whatever you want, however it's best if they start out semi-dark and are of pretty good quality. Also you don't want the people to be in the exact same pose or facing the exact same direction, that way your icon could end up looking like a two headed monster! :o Which to say the least, isn't cool.

I'm going to start out with screencaps of Tim and Tyra from Friday Night Lights. Screencaps are from In A Dream. If you're just beginning, its best to start out with an image of a face, and one of a fuller body, that way the face can sort of fit in the body... if that makes any sense at all lol. Tim will be the bottom image, Tyra will be on top.

Next, set the second layer (Tyra) to lighten. I now have this

Yeah. Not too pretty. So, what we'll do, is move The layer with Tyra over until you can see both Tim & Tyra's face, and it looks good...

As you can see it's still not that pretty because you can see where the image of Tyra ends...

So, what we'll do is add a layer mask, and erase the edges using a large soft round brush. (If you dont know how to use layer masks, you can just erase it normally using a large soft round brush)

After that we end up with this

Ooooo... pretty, but it's still a little blah... SOOO, we add our coloring (tutorial here) Any coloring you'd like works... But black and white almost always looks good.

Now you can leave it like that for a banner or what not, but if you'd like to make an icon now's the time to crop.

Then resize your image to 100 x 100 and there you go. A pretty icon :]

Enjoy and Feel free to ask any questions you have! :]

Other Examples:

cerberusk — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:12:18 GMT

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as i'm swimming through the stereo, i conduct a symphony of sound

cerberusk — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:27:47 GMT

So. In honor of Valentine's day I bring a MASSIVE!!! icon post, featuring a ton of my favorite couples. Some of these are from my previous icon journal copperbooom but many are brand new. Anyways, I hope you enjoy!

31 Smallville (All Clark & Lana)
121 Lost (Mostly Jack & Kate)
99 House (Mostly House & Cuddy)
20 Bones (Mostly Booth & Brennan)
30 Prison Break (Mostly Michael & Sarah)

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cerberusk — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:36:58 GMT

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tyra, um, believe it or not it’s not all about sex for me...

cerberusk — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:08:16 GMT

Bunch of Tim & Tyra icons from my picspam

1-22: Tim Riggins
23-45: Tyra Collette
46-55: Tim & Tyra

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dear god, make me a bird. so I could fly far. far far away from here.

cerberusk — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:58:05 GMT

So. Welcome to my new icon journal. Here is a big ol' batch of new Forrest Gump icons. Next post will be a post consisting of all the icons from my last icon journal. Enjoy!

1: black panthers
2-5: forrest and bubba
6-24: forrest
25-28: forrest & forrest jr.
29-72: forrest & jenny
73-114: jenny

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