{ life has always been a pretty song and pretty loud }

stanakatic20n20 - Round #10

2012-01-16T09:19:54Z

My entries for round #10 of stanakatic20n20:

10 THEMES

Badge	Two-Parter	Outside	Initials	Coat


Gun	Police Vest	At Home	Close Up	Murder Board

5 CATEGORY – FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

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

castle20in20 - round #19

2011-12-25T00:17:57Z

THEMES

Close	Corner	Dark	Favourite Character	Holiday Season

ARTIST'S CHOICE

1	2	3	4	5

stanakatic20n20 - Round #09

2011-12-18T08:18:21Z

my entries for round #09 of stanakatic20n20:

10 THEMES

Behind the Scenes	Kill Shot	Favorite	Christmas	Hat


Antique	Hands	Winter	Hug	Provided Pic

5 CATEGORY – PREVIOUSLY ON... [Talk Show]

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

castle20in20 - Round #18

2011-11-13T20:20:57Z

my entries for round #18 of castle20in20:

THEMES

Blue	Broken	Coffee	Event	Faceless


Finale	Left	Outdoors	Precinct	Tiny Text

CATEGORY - ONE CHARACTER

1	2	3	4	5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

1	2	3	4	5

Warning: One of the icons contains a cap from the promo of Killshot, set to air on November 21st.

StanaKatic20in20 Round #08

2011-11-12T08:49:44Z

my entries for round #08 of stanakatic20n20:

10 THEMES

Press Conference	Curly Hair	Yellow	Leather	My Mood


Look Away	Coffee	The Unit	Arcimoto	Eyes Closed

5 CATEGORY - THROUGH THE YEARS

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

StanaKatic20in20 Round #07

2011-10-14T11:11:36Z

my entries for round #07 of stanakatic20n20:

10 THEMES

Precinct	Blond	Candid	Season	Rise


LOL	Outside	Black & White	Castle Bloopers	Red

5 CATEGORY – PLUS ONE

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

and an unrelated question: is there an interest in a requests post?

castle20in20 - Round #17

2011-10-10T21:57:58Z

my entries for round #17 of castle20in20:

THEMES

Eyes	Frustrated	Guest Star	Hug	Joy


Rotate	Scared	Texture	Two-Toned	Winter

CATEGORY - PHOTO SHOOTS

1	2	3	4	5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

1	2	3	4	5

castle20in20 - Round #16

2011-09-15T20:29:26Z

my entries for round 16 of castle20in20:

THEMES

Chat Speak	Dark	Family	Large Text	Lips


Looking Down	Looking Up	Negative Space	Telephone	Solo

CATEGORY - COLOURFUL

1	2	3	4	5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

1	2	3	4	5

david_stillness - Round #01

2011-08-29T20:23:00Z

entries for david_stillness's Operation Booth 20in20:

10 THEMES

Bottom	Object	Name	Family	Emotion


Negative Space	Four Square	Repetition	Epic	Favorite Moment

5 CATEGORY - Same Picture

Category #1	Category #2	Category #3	Category #4	Category #5

5 ARTIST'S CHOICE

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

stanakatic20in20 - Round #06

2011-08-19T21:44:55Z

entries for stanakatic20n20:

10 THEMES

B&W/Color	Dark	Comic Con	Large Text	Crossover


HBIC	Funny Face	Top	Punctuation	Multiple

5 CATEGORY – THE EVOLUTION OF KATE BECKETT'S HAIR

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

bones_stills - Round 01

2011-07-13T05:56:00Z

entries for bones_stills:

10 THEMES

hush	close-up	far-away	smile	grief


box	border	trapped	escape	free

5 CATEGORY; Pairing

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

5 SEQUENCE

Sequence #1	Sequence #2	Sequence #3	Sequence #4	Sequence #5

5 COLOR

Color #1	Color #2	Color #3	Color #4	Color #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

Would love comments, as usual :)

And if someone can tell me how the delete the spaces for the Sequence set, if it's possible? looks weird this way.

castle20in20 - Round 14

2011-07-11T15:33:34Z

entries for castle20in20:

THEMES

Bullpen	Formal Wear	Funny Face	Left	Name


Pilot	Prop	Purple	Quote	Solo

CATEGORY - EMOTIONS

1	2	3	4	5

ARTIST'S CHOICE

1	2	3	4	5

Please please comment! :)

stanakatic20in20 - Round #05

2011-07-06T08:47:38Z

10 THEMES

Jewelry	Cute	Faceless	Gun	Far Away


4 Square	Sitting	Promo Pic	ATP	Fake Background

5 CATEGORY – EMOTIONS

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

Would love a link back if you use anything, and I'd loooove to hear what you think, what you liked, what you didn't like, and so on.

Round #11, "Countdown" (Castle)

2011-06-27T08:37:15Z

entries for round 11 of episode2020:

Open Scene	Angelic	Top

Vibrant	Despair	Joy

Dark	Bottom	Demonic

End Scene	Facial Expressions	Facial Expressions

Facial Expressions	Facial Expressions	Facial Expressions

Artist's Choice	Artist's Choice	Artist's Choice

Artist's Choice	Artist's Choice

Round #10, "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole"

2011-05-28T22:52:21Z

Entries for episode2020:

Rainbow	Ditry	Back

Smile	Legendary	Festive

In the Clouds	Quote	Stock

Time	Catagory	Catagory

Catagory	Catagory	Catagory

Artist's Choice	Artist's Choice	Artist's Choice

Artist's Choice	Artist's Choice

junedreaming @ 2006-05-25T12:10:00

2006-05-25T09:10:26Z

knock knock! anyone still reading here? i'm working on some icons =)

Tutorial #17 - screen_sirens26 [Jennifer Connelly]

2005-06-11T07:55:01Z

My base. Sharpened, resized, sharpened again, probably used Edge Preserving Smooth as well. I don't think I even had to do anything in terms of lightening.

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Gradient by ?. [Darken, 23%]

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Same gradient, flipped and mirrored. [Soft Light, 100%]

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Texture by ashke_icons. [Soft Light, 65%]

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Light texture by ashke_icons [Dodge, 16%]

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Part of a texture by ? [Soft Light, 100%]

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Part of a texture by ? [Soft Light, 100%]

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I honestly don't know what this is... maybe a part of the original image, or a crop of a light texture? [Exclusion, 100%]

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Selected two areas of with the Selection tool, filled with #FEEFD4. [Normal, 100%]

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Text in, uh, one of those script fonts. ;) [Normal, 100%]

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Brush by crumblingwalls, I think. [Normal, 100%]

* Please don't copy step to step. :)

* Please let me know if you know who made any of these gradients/textures.

Tutorial #16 - theoc_hush08 [Seth & Summer]

2005-06-11T07:33:18Z

Starting out with this base, which I think was done by inxsomniax

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I took the cap offered on the challenge, selected Summer and Seth using the lasso tool, and filled the selection in black. Then I resized that to height of about 70, and pasted it unto the base {only the black part!} [Normal, 100%]

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The cap again. This time I duplicated it a couple of times, setting the top layer, which I have desaturated, to Soft Light, and the middle one to Screen. resized that to a height of 70, and pasted unto the base. I selected a random brush as my eraser, and just started going around the edges. [Normal, 100%]

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Duplicated the previous layer. [Screen, 100%]

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A base by immoral I 'fixed' slightly with the Clone Brush. ~~If you know who made it, please let me know so that I can give credit.~~ [Screen, 100%]

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Duplicated the layer from two steps ago. [Screen, 100%]

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Another duplicate. [Multiply, 100%]

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And another... [Screen, 54%]

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Another base by immoral, which I deleted some of. ~~Again, if you know who made it, please let me know!~~ [Difference, 100%]

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A light texture, which, again, I don't remember who made. Let me know if you know, please? [Screen, 100%]

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Hmm... teh_indy, maybe? In white. [Normal, 100%]

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Same brush as in the previous step. [Normal, 100%]

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Same as the second step, except this time it's filled in white [I think I just did 'negative image'], and resized to a height of 50.

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Something I know! detoxcocktails made this one. [Soft Light, 100%]

Please don't copy step to step. :)

Tutorial #15 - katie_stillness09 [Katie Holmes]

2005-05-28T16:04:58Z

My base... resized, and sharpened. And um, I probably used Edge Preserving Smooth set to 1 or 2 as well.

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I don't know who it is by, sadly. [Lighten, 57%]

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Yay desaturation! [Soft Light, 100%]

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And... I don't know who made this, either. [Screen, 88%]

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More desaturaion! [Soft Light, 100%]

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Duplicated the original base. [Screen, 60%]

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This isn't black, but a very very dark blue - #001F40 [Exclusion, 35%]

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Just a simple white line done with the Draw tool. [Normal, 100%]

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Some tiny text {just the dark part}... I don't think I've written anything there, just pressed on random letters. [Multiply, 93%]

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This time it's really black. [Soft Light, 100%]

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But it was too dark for me, so I added this layer. [Screen, 100%]

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One brush in white, just to make it slightly brighter. I think it's a brush from inxsomniax that I just deleted most of. [Screen, 100%]

Tutorial #14 - femmeicons31 [Kelly Clarkson]

2005-05-28T15:44:13Z

An incredibly simple icon... which, um, I guess most of my icons tend to be. ;)

My base, cropped out of the image supplied by femme_icons

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Light texture from teh_indy. [Screen, 100%]

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Duplicated the light texture from above, and fliped it. [Screen, 100%] The icon looks ugly and overly faded now, but we're going to take care of that very soon, don't worry.

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Duplicated the original base. [Overlay, 57%] It already looks better, no?

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Did 'Copy Merged' on the icon, resized to 50x50, and placed it in the corner. Oh, and rotated it around, obviously. [Normal 100%]

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Made a little white frame around the resized image using the Preset Shapes tool. [Normal, 100%]

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Random tiny text, just to add some intrest to the icon. I did this at the very end, actually, because no big text worked for me, but I didn't want the icon to seem 'empty'. [Normal, 100%]

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Some more of that tiny text... [Normal, 100%]

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I didn't want a smooth border, so I again used tiny text to make a border. [Screen, 100%]

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Now on the other side... [Screen, 100%]

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Duplicated the layer from the previous step, just to make it stand out more. [Screen, 100%]

Done! :)

Tutorial #13 - screen_sirens18 [Gwyneth Paltrow]

2005-05-27T11:31:34Z

Now, before I start... Let me firts say that while it doesn't show here, I did the outline on the original picture, not the one resized to 100x100ish size. That way, I get a smoother line. Afterwards, I resized the entire thing but moved the layers to a new image seperately, to allow me more freedom with effects and colors.

Now, from bottom to top:

Started out with this background.. Actually, the background was black at first, but I later changed it to this color, to work with the blend modes I've used with the pattern.

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Pasted over the image. After I did the outline, I ereased everything around it. This is why the edges are not deleted completely - the outline was there on the original image, and will be there in the icon.

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Added in this solid-blue layer. [Exclusion, 63%] Heh, aren't you tired of this effect already? *g*

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Made by inxsomniax. I pasted it over everything, and deleted the parts around the image. That was done after I pasted on the outline, so actually I deleted everything around the outline. [Normal, 100%]

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I've already established that I looove gradients in the previous tutorial. [Overlay, 100%]

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Copy of the base image. [Screen, 100%]. Bright is nice!

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Finally, the infamous outline! [Normal, 100%] Oh yeah. On the original image, I just used the brush tool on opacity 100, and size... 10, maybe? I don't know, it all depends on the size of your original image, and how wide you want the outline.

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Gwyneth's name in Ariel [I think], white, with a pink shadow. [Multiply, 67%] Afterwards, I used the same layer from, which I have duplicated before adding the shadow. [Normal, 100%] I did the same with the last name as the first name, but smaller font size.

Tutorial #12 - angie_challenge09 [Angelina Jolie]

2005-05-27T10:58:42Z

I bet you always wanted how to make

This is not the order I did things, but the order of the layouts, going from bottom on to top. Also, um, this tutorial isn't all that good, because you'll find I never remember which brushes I use. That being said...

I took the image offered at angie_challenge [join!], cropped it, duplicated the images two times and placed them the way I wanted. Merged all images together. [Normal, 100%]

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I duplicated that merged image, and sharpened. [Screen, 85%]

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Gradients, because they are so useful. [Soft Light, 43%]

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This is something I have in pretty much every icon I make - desaturated copy of the layer. Duplicate the base, go to Colors --> Adjust --> Hue/Saturation/Lightness, and set it to Hue: 2, Saturation: -100, Lightness: 0 [Soft Light, 100%]

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I said already that gradients are useful, right? So here's another one. [Lighten, 100%]

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Another copy of the desaturated base, because I wanted it to be less faded. [Soft Light, 100%]

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Annnnd another gradient! [Darken, 82%]

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I have no idea who made this brush {dark parts}, but it's some kind of 'fabric' brush. [Burn, 51%]

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Added borders in #EFD5AF between the images. Made it using the Draw tool with anti-alias on, width 3, set to single line. [Normal, 100%]

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Another brush, possibly made by inxsomniax. [Screen, 100%]

junedreaming @ 2005-01-11T15:50:00

2005-01-11T13:51:14Z

I posted this one in October, but ever since I got a bunch of new people friended, new icons made, so I'm reposting...

Which of my icons:

1. is your favorite and why?
2. is your least favorite and why?
3. have you always wanted context for?
4. have you never noticed i even had before?
5. has your favorite coloring?
6. is your favorite style?

Please answer :) For refrence, check my memories.

junedreaming @ 2004-12-31T11:21:00

2004-12-31T09:22:01Z

Not icon related, but... you guys should really consider joining PromoSquad. Basically, you rate music, earn points, and can geta bunch of cool prizes, like CDs and DVDs.

junedreaming @ 2004-12-14T10:47:00

2004-12-14T00:47:44Z

I had a couple of requests for this one, so...

* If opacity level isn't mentioned, it's 100.
* If layer blend mode *and* opacity level aren't mentioned, it's Normal 100.

From bottom to top:

Started with the base supplied by love_stillness. Sharpen once, Edge Preserving Smooth set to 1.

Duplicated the base and desaturated, but not completely - I left in hints of red. Set to Screen.

Gradient, a PSP default I believe, set to Burn 38.

Exactly the same as step #2.

Duplicated the saturated layer again, played around with the contrast. Ste to Soft Light.

Fairly sure this one is by crumblingwalls. Set to Screen.

Brush [the white part] that is quite possibly by inxsomniax, but don't hold me to it.

Drew a line with the Line Tool, and half-erased the edge.

Duplicated the previous layer {line}, mirrored and flipped.

Georgia 5pt, Normal 37. I add a bit of drop shadow there in black, but I sadly don't remember the exact settings.

Another brush that is possibly by inxsomniax, set to Soft Light.

Duplicate of the text, set to Screen.

And we're done!