STARLIGHT'S WORLD

More Smallville

ms_starlight — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:26:45 GMT

Here are some new icons from episodes I watched over the last few weeks.

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It's been a while...

ms_starlight — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:21:02 GMT

Wow, haven't posted here since Febuary!
Well, but currently I watch Smallville for the very first time and created some icons and also some Harry Potter icons.

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Doctor's Diary Turteltäubchen

ms_starlight — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:43:42 GMT

"Turteltäubchen" is German for love birdies. =)
I made a bunch of icons about the 3rd season finale of the German TV show "Doctor's Diary". Loved these scenes. =)

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bouncerbutch's "Rent" GIMP icon tutorial transferred to Photoshop

ms_starlight — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:21:46 GMT

From to

In this tutorial I'll show how to recreate this beautiful icon with Photoshop that was originally made by bouncerbutch with GIMP (tutorial). Maybe there's other ways to do it. But that's just my attempt. ;-)

Comparison Gimp by bouncerbutch and Photoshop by ms_starlight
It's not exactly the same but I think it's close enough. ;-)

I simply borrowed bouncerbutch's base to make it as similar as possible. Or you can prepare (crop, sharpen, blur, etc.) any other picture you like.
Duplicate your base three times. Invert (Ctrl + i) the first copy and set it to color dodge, opacity 30.
Set the second copy to hard light, opacity 30. Then go to Image -> Adjust -> Equalize.
Set the copy on top to screen, opacity 40.

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Create three new color fill layers. The first one with # bbd5cf, color burn. The second one with #f0c2f4, also color burn. The third one with #4d549a, soft light.

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Duplicate your base, desaturate it, set it to soft light, opacity 50 and put it on top of all layers. Add another color fill layer above, #ffeec9, opacity 70, multiply.

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Create a new Brightness/Contrast layer with 64/-26.
And a new levels layer with the following settings:

RGB:

0, 0.66, 255
output levels: 70, 255

red:

6, 1.00, 204
output levels: 34, 201

green:

0, 1.00, 165
output levels: 19, 255

blue:

0, 1.00, 255
output levels: 74, 255

Set this layer to saturation and on its layer mask paint with black over the skin areas.
Add a brightness/contrast layer with 13/-43.

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Add another three color fill layers. The first one with #98daf3, color burn. The second one with #c0c0c0, soft light. Again use the layer mask to paint with black over skin areas. The third one with #a87b9c, soft light, opacity 48.

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Duplicate your base, drag it to the top and set it to soft light, opacity 60.

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Create a selective color layer.

reds:

cyan: +29; magenta: -12; yellow: +100; black: +97

blues:

cyan: +29

neutrals:

cyan: +7; magenta: -5; yellow: -29; black: -14

blacks:

cyan: +13; yellow: -6; black: -4

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New curves layer:

RGB:

input: 69; output:86

input: 123; output: 115

input: 156; output: 165

blue:

input: 79; output: 56

input: 117; output 107

input: 155; output: 155

Add a last color fill layer with #ffdbdb, color burn, opacity 50.

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Finally the text. "Just Dance" is written with the font Steamer, #fbebd6, size 11pt. If you want you can add a transparent layer underneath the text layer and paint on it a bit with a matching blue to make the text more readable.

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More Harry =)

ms_starlight — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:20:41 GMT

30 more icons. ;-)

teasers:

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Deathly Hallows Icons

ms_starlight — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:11:13 GMT

How I love that movie!!! <3
Here's some new icons I made yesterday.

People Turned into Na'Vi

ms_starlight — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:30:14 GMT

It's just so much fun to create these. =) Hope you like them.

teaser:

My first one, which I like best. She's my best friend.

Second, the wonderful Michael Jackson. I think he would've loved Pandora.

And third one, my boyfriend and me in 2006. ;-) Hehehe.

legends never die...

ms_starlight — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:34:24 GMT

More Michael Jackson... He will be missed forever...

5 wallpapers
9 sets (icons & signature banners)

Most of them are about two months old...

preview:

Vector hearts

ms_starlight — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:30:28 GMT

New brushes for you.

Ariel's voice

ms_starlight — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:15:17 GMT

Me singing again. ;-)

New MJ stuff

ms_starlight — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:52:52 GMT

3 icons
3 sets (icons & signature banners)
1 wallpaper

preview:

Michael again...

ms_starlight — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:31:20 GMT

2 new sets and a wallpaper for you...

preview:

More Michael Jackson...

ms_starlight — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:29:31 GMT

20 Icons...

preview:

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R.I.P. Michael

ms_starlight — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:08:27 GMT

For anyone who might want to use this in forums...

And I sang two songs in memory of him...

In remembrance of the King of Pop

ms_starlight — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:16:12 GMT

There will never be a person like him...

Pocahontas - Colors of the wind

ms_starlight — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:18:12 GMT

As requested by some people.

Disney songs

ms_starlight — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:22:48 GMT

Here are 8 songs I dubbed and posted on youtube.

wallpaper textures

ms_starlight — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:49:03 GMT

New brushes & icon textures

ms_starlight — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:27:20 GMT

Charmed & Pushing Daisies

ms_starlight — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:38:52 GMT

4 sets (icons & signature banners)
- 1 Pushing Daisies
- 3 Charmed
10 icons (Pushing Daisies)

Contains spoilers for the Pushing Daisies finale!

preview:

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Daisies animated

ms_starlight — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:12:16 GMT

10 icons
8 sets (icons & signature banners)
4 wallpapers

Today I made some animated Pushing Daisies stuff and a new Wallpaper. The others are some weeks older.
Hope you like them. :-)

Contains spoilers for episode 2x11!

preview:

Pushing Daisies

ms_starlight — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:22:12 GMT

20 icons
1 set
1 wallpaper

It's so much fun to make something with Pushing Daisies caps because they're so colorful and great quality.
Hope you like my new stuff.

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New Charmed stuff

ms_starlight — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:38:42 GMT

Isn't Charmed a wonderful show? I currently watch season 3 (well, 1 episode left) and so I made a lot of Charmed graphics.

preview:

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sets

blends

wallpapers

Harry Potter OotP signature Tutorial

ms_starlight — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:59:05 GMT

Involves selective colors and curves.
Made with Photoshop CS.

That's a litlle older tutorial which I already wrote in German.
You'll learn how to achieve this:

1. I chose a cap from "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Sharpen once and blur the skin a little.
As it is pretty dark duplicate your base three times. Set the first two to screen and the top layer to soft light.

2. Create a new curves layer with the following settings:

RGB:
Input: 27; Output: 49
Input: 59; Output: 97
Input: 90; Output: 111
Input: 168; Output: 135
Input: 208; Output: 187

Reds:
Input: 80; Output: 97
Input: 105; Output 126
Input: 173; Output: 191

3. Put a new layer on top, fill with #ffdea5 and set to soft light.

4. Time for a selective color layer:

Reds:
-70; 0; +57; +88

Yellows:
0; +24; +24; 0

Cyans:
+100; -34; -75; -46

Neutrals:
+13; -34; -63; +33

5. New layer. Fill with #fbeeb4 and set to multiply.

6. Now some text if you like.

Choose a color that's already in your sig. Mine is a yellow tone.
Write the text you like in "Mutlu", size 48, spacing 5.
Now choose another color from your sig (mine is cyan)
and write the same text in "Garamond", size 30, spacing 5.

And you're done!

Coloring tutorial

ms_starlight — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:24:18 GMT

This is a very simple tutorial that shows you how to go

from this to this

your base should not be too sharp. I chose a picture of the lovely Anna Friel. Maybe you have to blur the skin a little.

selective color layer:

Reds:
-100; 0; +96; +52

Yellows:
0; +100; +100; +100

Neutrals:
+34; +3; -13; 0

another selective color layer:

Reds:
-100; 0; +68; -18

Yellows:
0; 0; +100; -51

Cyans:
+100; -100; -100; +100

Add a 4px white border if you like and you're done!

You can see that the result depends on the colors of the image.

other examples:

(Or see in German/Hier klicken für die deutsche Version)

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