Pea In Pod

peainpod — Sun, 07 Aug 2005 23:39:40 GMT

[4] Sarah Michelle Gellar

[3] Rachel Bilson

[3] Alexis Bledel

[2] Topher Grace

[5] Misc

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1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7.

8. 9. 10.

11. 12.

13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

My second tutorial: Alexis Bledel (PS)

peainpod — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:42:01 GMT

Going from to

I'll be using this picture that I got from here.

1. Make a blank 100x100 canvas with a white background

2. Fill it with #d7dba5

3. Use hanako_lovely's Supernova paintchips brush with #b28a56

Set to normal

4. Use hanako_lovely's Supernova paintchips brush with #b74a35

Set to color burn

5. Use hanako_lovely's Supernova paintchips brush with #b74a35

Set to normal

6. Use hanako_lovely's Supernova paintchips brush with #b28a56

Set to linear burn

Now it's time to work on the actual picture.

7. Go into quick mask mode and paint the Alexis (with her back turned) with a paintbrush.

8. Exit mask mode. Go to select>inverse. Then image>adjustments>hue/saturation. Decrease saturation.

9. Enter mask mode again. Paint the other Alexis too now. Because you inversed selection, you will have to paint with the color white, instead of black.

10. Exit mask mode. Go to select>modify>smooth 3px. Select>modify>contract 1px.

11. Enter mask mode again because you will lose the selection if you change the image size right now. Go to image>image size> change the height to 110 px. (I'm not sure if this was the exact size, but you can play around with it)

12. Exit mask mode. Drag the selection to the base that was made earlier. Sharpen.

13. Make new layer. Fill with #000030 and set to exclusion.

14. Make new layer. Fill with #dcc7a6 and set to color (opacity 9%)

15. Make new layer. Fill with #e1cebf and set to multiply

16. Make new layer. Fill with #000000 and set to color (opacity 9%)

17. Duplicate the layer with Alexis. Desaturate and set to softlight.

18. Go to layer> new adjustment layer>levels. I don't remember the exact setting.

20. Make new layer below the first Alexis layer. Add text using a brush (Don't remember whose brush it is. If anyone knows let me know) in black and set to overlay. Duplicate layer.

21. Make new layer. Use this border brush (again, don't remember whose it is) in white.

I hope this was helpful. If you have any questions, ask.

peainpod — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:46:04 GMT

I feel like I've come a long way since my first batch of icons, which are pretty hideous.

+5 Rachel Bilson

+3 Sarah Michelle Gellar

+3 Bridget Jones

+2 Mandy Moore

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Rachel Bilson

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

6. 7. 8.

Bridget Jones

9. 10. 11.

Mandy Moore

12. 13.

peainpod — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:36:49 GMT

[2] Mandy Moore

[2] Rachel Bilson

[1] Amber Tamblyn

[1] Sarah Michelle Gellar

[1] The L Word

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Mandy Moore

1. 2.

Rachel Bilson

3. 4.

Amber Tamblyn

Sarah Michelle Gellar

The L Word

Trying out something new

peainpod — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 17:49:31 GMT

Learnt something new from awmp's pop art tutorial.

[4]Sarah Michelle Gellar

[2]Mandy Moore

[2]Sophia/CMM

[1]The L Word

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Sarah Michelle Gellar

1. 2. 3. 4.

Mandy Moore

5. 6.

Sophia/CMM

7. 8.

TLW

Icons

peainpod — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:31:27 GMT

[3] Veronica Mars

[4] Mandy Moore

[2] Jennifer Garner

[2] Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Veronica Mars

1. 2. 3.

Mandy Moore

4. 5. 6. 7.

Jennifer Garner

8. 9.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

10. 11.

It's been a while

peainpod — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:02:16 GMT

[7] The O.C.

[5] Mandy Moore

[3] Veronica Mars

[1] Hilary Swank, EDR, Joie Lenz, and Cate Blanchett

The O.C.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

6. 7.

Mandy Moore

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Veronica Mars

1. 2. 3.

EDR

Joie Lenz

Hilary Swank

Cate Blanchett

Manipulation tutorial

peainpod — Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:36:50 GMT

People have asked about my icon manipulations so here it is. It is pretty long and it’s only a tutorial on making the base. I will probably post another tutorial using this base, but not right now. My head hurts.

(This is my first tutorial. I hope it's not too confusing.

This is the image I started off with. I got it from Adam-Brody.com

1. Blur Rachel and Ben's skin. Strength: 18%. Zoom: 300%. I do this (even when unnecessary) so that when I sharpen later on, their eyes or mouths won't look too jagged.

This is what it should look like.

2. I decided to move Ben's picture over to where Adam's is because I really like where her arm is. So duplicate the background layer. Add a layer mask to the top layer. You do that by clicking on the square box with the white circle on the layers palette. A blank white square should show up linked to the picture thumbnail.

3. Click on the brush tool. Make sure that the foreground is set to black. Also make sure that the white thumbnail is highlighted and not the picture thumbnail because then you'd just be painting black on your picture. Hide the first (background) layer so that we can see what we are erasing. Start brushing (14px) anything, but Ben.

You don't have to be too precise just yet. I used the layer mask because if I make a mistake and erase Ben, I can just switch the foreground to white and brush over that part.
You should end up with something like this

4. Now I noticed that Ben’s face is too small because he’s standing at the back. So go to Edit->Transform->Scale. Just shift (to keep it proportional) and drag. Can you see the difference?

5. Drag Ben into the position. As you can see, the background is covering Rachel’s face and I want her arm in the picture so gotta do more brushing.

6. Go back to the top layer and click on your layer mask. Then zoom and start brushing around Ben’s hair and face. It should look like this.

7. To do the arm, put the top layer at 0% opacity with the layer mask highlighted. Just start brushing Rachel’s arm. You should switch the opacity back to 100% occasionally to make sure that you are doing it right. You don’t want only half of her arm there.

8. Adam’s fro is right next to Rachel’s neck so gotta do something about that. Click on the bottom layer (background) and use the smudge tool (6px and 33% strength). Start smudging Rachel’s skin towards Ben’s face. Also smudge the background towards the top of Ben’s head because Adam’s fro is just everywhere.

9. Ben’s head has a white outline from the background so need to clean that up a little. Click on the top layer (the layer mask again) and start brushing (81% opacity, 1px). You will have to zoom a lot.

10. Now flatten image. You will notice that Rachel’s left wrist is missing. Smudge again towards Ben’s hair.

11. Now it’s time to clean the background. I only want Ben/Rachel, not Rachel and two Bens. So click on the smudge tool. This time you can increase the strength and brush size. Start smudging towards the right edge of the canvas.

You should end up with this.

12. Click on the selection tool. Now Shift + drag. Go to Image->Crop. I blurred Ben’s jaw and the edge of his hair so that when I sharpen it, it won’t stand out too much.

13. Resize image to 100x100.

14. It is too blurry so go to Filter->Sharpen.
15. Too sharp! So go to Edit->Fade sharpen. I chose 50% opacity.

16. This is what the icon base should look like.

This is only a tutorial on making an icon base. Please don’t use this base. Make your own and be creative.

Icons

peainpod — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:57:06 GMT

[8] The O.C.

[5] Desperate Housewives

[2] Sarah Michelle Gellar

[1] Emilie de Ravin

[1] Amber Tamblyn

[1] Jennifer Garner/Ben Affleck

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The O.C.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

7. 8.

Desperate Housewives

9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

14. 15.

Emilie de Ravin

16.

Amber Tamblyn

17.

Jennifer Garner/Ben Affleck

18.

Icons galore. Not really. Kind of.

peainpod — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:09:38 GMT

[9] The O.C.

[2] Amber Tamblyn

[2] Bethany Joy Lenz

[1] Emilie de Ravin

[1] Veronica Mars

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The O.C.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

7. 8. 9.

Amber Tamblyn

1. 2.

Bethany Joy Lenz (Guiding Light)

1. 2.

Emilie de Ravin

Veronica Mars

Results of my procastination

peainpod — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 00:15:29 GMT

[3] Life As We Know It

[1] Desperate Housewives

[1] Mandy Moore

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Life As We Know It

1. 2. 3.

Desperate Housewives

Mandy Moore

Icons

peainpod — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:54:06 GMT

Teaser

Rachel Bilson
1. 2. 3.

Emilie de Ravin

Mandy Moore

Amber Benson

Michelle Williams

Manny (Guiding Light)

Amber Tamblyn

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More icons

peainpod — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:21:10 GMT

Teaser

Mandy Moore
#1 #2

Amber Tamblyn
#1 #2 #3

Sarah Michelle Gellar
#1 #2 #3

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Icons

peainpod — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:22:22 GMT

My first LJ icons. Be gentle.

1. 2. 3. 4.

Test

peainpod — Fri, 03 Sep 2004 18:43:42 GMT

*coughs*