Scribble Doodle

Tutorial #2: How to Make a (Circle Mask) Brush

2009-03-22T20:14:57Z

Program: Adobe Photoshop CS4 (But can be followed by older versions)
Level: Easy/Basic
(Will have another tutorial of the same style as last time coming soon; right now, I'm on a deadline and don't have much free time before April.)

This is a very simple tutorial for

uninvitedgrace . She was looking for some 100x100 Circle Masks. So, we’re going to learn how to make our own brushes today!

(Even if you don't want to make circles, this tutorial will teach you how to make and save your own brushes. ^_^)

If you want to learn how to do circle masking, ch_photoshopped has a nice, simple tutorial (and brush set, too!) here.

It's really easy to make your own circular brushes. (If you don’t want to take the time to make them, however, you can download the brush set I made during this tutorial here.

(I made these using CS4; I'm not sure if older versions can use these brushes or not. All versions of Photoshop, however, are able to follow the tutorial!)

First, let's make our document.

Go to

File->New

See where it says Untitled-1? Rename that to whatever you want to call your working .psd file. It doesn’t really matter what you call it unless you’re also making an image pack for users of other programs. I’m going to call my document “Circle100.”

At the moment, our Preset should be entitled Custom because we’re going to set the size of the pixels we want for this piece ourselves, rather than choosing one of the default sizes that Photoshop offers.

Next, set both your Width and your Height to 100 pixels.

Click the third button that says Save Preset… (Look at the above image for an arrow pointing to this button).

It’ll ask you to save it as “100 px X 100 px,” and you’ll say OK.

What this means is that the next time you start working with a 100x100 pixel document, you have the option available to you in your pulldown Preset menu, so instead of choosing Custom like we did today and changing all of your settings, you can just click the setting “100 px X 100 px” and say OK. Very easy, right?

Next, go to Background Contents and set it to either White or Transparent; it doesn’t really matter which right now. :)

Okay, Don’t worry about any of the other settings today. I’ll talk more in-depth about this issue in the next tutorial, okay?

Now that our settings are in order, say OK.

There are two ways you can make a brush.

1) METHOD #1:

1. Go to your toolbar. Hold down on the Rectangular Marquee Tool. It has an arrow on it, which means that there's more than one tool for that button. When you hold down on the button, the list comes up. Choose Elliptical Marquee Tool.

2. Click with your mouse and drag your marquee so that it’s whatever size you want it to be. To get a perfect circle, hold the SHIFT key on your keyboard while you’re dragging. That’s important! My circle is about 60 pixels at the moment.

3. Now, in your color picker, choose black (#000000). Go to your Paint Bucket Tool tool. [refer to Tutorial #1 for how to do this, or any other preliminary steps that I talk about, but don’t stop to explain/show pics of, because I covered them last time].

4. Bring your paint bucket over to your circle. Click and fill the circle with black.

5. Now, go to Edit-->Define Brush Preset…

6. You’ll be asked to give your brush a name.

7. You’ve now made a brush!

**If you want, add a second, smaller circle. Make it gray so that the color will be lighter when you’re using the brush later. Go ahead and save that brush, too!

**Or, make a bunch of little brushes in a row for a circle trail!

2) METHOD #2:

1. Click your brush tool. Choose one of the top brushes on the top line (I’ll choose #19.)

2. To change size of your brush, slide up or down the MASTER DIAMETER bar, or use the [ (smaller) and ] (larger) buttons on your keyboard.

3. Now, in your color picker, choose black (#000000).

4. Go place your brush onto your canvas.

5. Now, go to Edit-->Define Brush Preset…

6. You’ll be asked to give your brush a name.

7. You’ve now made a brush!

As you can see, these two brushes look the same:

So it’s up to you which method you want to use!

If you'd like to save your brushes for use in the future:
(because they're only saved temporarily until you change your brushes out atm...)

1.    Make sure your brush tool is selected. Go up to your brush panel. Using the little arrow, find where it says Preset Manager and click this option.

2. All of your brushes will appear. Click the brush (or brushes) you want to save and click SAVE SET. Choose the name for your set and where you want it to be stored, then click SAVE.

That's it!

Tutorial #1: Full Moon

2009-03-05T08:06:40Z

Okay, after discussing Photoshop stuff with dablackrose , I've decided to try my hand at making tutorials here. I haven't used this journal in forever, I know. I'm really behind on posting icons! I'll need to start doing that again.

I'm also going to start using this journal to make tutorials. I've never done this before, and I'm starting very basic b/c I think DBR is bringing other people into this (and they may not have any Photoshopping experience), but I'll gradually work my way up to bigger things!

Today for our first tutorial, we're going to make this icon:

from to .

At the moment, I’m using CS3, but once the class I’m currently enrolled in is over with (since it uses CS3), I’m upgrading to CS4. There will be tricks/features in some tutorials not used in previous versions of Photoshop. You can d/l a 30-day trial version of CS4 straight from Adobe’s website!

Since this is my first tutorial and I know a lot of you are starting with the basics, I just want to do something simple today. Nothing fancy, promise! I’m going to assume you’ve never used the program and tell you where everything is. I won’t do this every time, but as I introduce stuff!

**When using Photoshop, make sure you save often so you don’t lose all of your hard work! Constantly using File->Save or CTRL+S will keep you from heartache later, I PROMISE!!**

First, we want to make sure we all have the same palette windows open on our screens. By default, you should have Tools, Options, Navigator, Histogram, Info, Layers, Channels, Colors, Swatches, Styles, Layers, Channels, and Paths on your screen, but if you don’t, go to your toolbar and pull down WINDOW, and check off each feature. We won’t be using all of these palettes, so don’t stress out. The top two most important screens to have open are TOOLS and LAYERS. Make sure they’re always open, no matter what! You will ALWAYS use layers in Photoshop. A layer is basically putting one thing on top of something else, like if you wear a sheer black shirt over a fuchsia tank top. You’re wearing two shirts, and create a new color shade in the process. It’s sort of like that. And Tools is on your left and it has every tool you will ever use in Photoshop. I personally like to click that double-arrow at the top of the toolbar and get a double-screen so that my tools don’t take up as much vertical space. Personally, I also feel that Options is pretty useful to have at my fingertips. We can add and delete palettes as we need them. For this tutorial, we don’t need a lot. If you want to save the palettes you’ve opened so you don’t have to check them off every time you open Photoshop, go to:

Window->Workspace->Save Workspace,

and then the next time you open the program, you can go to:

Window->Workspace->and scroll to the bottom. If you named your current workspace “main,” for example, you should see it with a checkmark at the bottom of the bar!

Okay, first, let’s take a picture of a full moon. I really like the one I found here: http://www.papermag.com/blogs/full_moon.jpg

(Here is a mirror link to download the image from if the PaperMag site goes down.)

One thing we always want to do is check the balance of our levels when starting out and adjust them. Levels are...complicated to explain. http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-levels-1-2-3.html does a pretty good job, though. Basically, we want to achieve the right balance. I also really like the ALT-button trick they mention when gauging how an image should look.

There are two ways to adjust your levels. One is to go to:

Image->Adjustments->Levels

You can do this and it will work just fine. Any changes you make to what you’re working on, however, will be permanent.

There is a second method you can use that isn’t permanent. It’s a little more advanced, but it’s probably better to know early on. Look at your Layers Palette. Do you see the little half-moon button at the bottom? It looks like this:

Click that button, then click on the word LEVELS. It brings you to the same screen as if you had used the first method I mentioned. The only difference is, you get a second layer on your layers palette that looks like this:

This is a type of mask, but don’t worry about that word right now. Just think of it as a second layer. You can change the levels of your image (or any other category under that half-moon button) however you want, and you won’t permanently adjust your picture. See the little eyeball on the left-hand side of your level layer? If you click it, the eyeball disappears and that layer becomes invisible. It doesn’t change any of your other layers. With the first method where you went to Image->Adjustments->Levels, you didn’t get a second layer and the changes are permanent. You can’t change them later. So I, personally, like to make changes this way, and felt it worth teaching you despite it being slightly more advanced.

Okay, to show you what I mean about levels because it’s hard to comprehend, look at the picture located here.

Save it to your computer, open it in Photoshop, and open up LEVELS using whichever of the above methods suits you best.

Are you there? OKAY! See this picture that comes up?

I want you to notice how the two black lines come in slightly from the sides and aren’t off completely to the side. This photograph is leveled pretty well!

Okay, close that picture. I want you to open up the image of our full moon again (if you closed it). Go into your levels. See the difference?

Adjust your image as you see fit. I’m going to use 25/1.00/240. I like how that looks. Again, this is me. Don’t be afraid to make your graphic unique!

Next, I want to crop my picture. Sometimes I do this right away before I start working on my image, other times, I do it at the end. If you work on a big surface and shrink it later, be forewarned that your end-result may not look exactly the same as it did on a larger scale.

For LJ-Avatars, images can be 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall. That’s pretty small!

Look at your toolbar (on your left, remember?) We’re going to start with our Rectangular Marquee Tool. That’s the button that looks like a rectangle (with dashed lines instead of one solid line), like this:

Don’t worry if your buttons are all on one line and in my picture, they’re on two. You see where I drew that yellow box? If you click that double-arrow, your toolbar will look just like mine. It’s okay to leave it as the default, too! It’s all personal preference. Also don’t worry when you don’t see that weird blue/gray line down the left-hand side of my toolbar. I have a Wacom Intuos3 drawing tablet, and that’s actually a hideaway bar for the handwriting feature, so it’s not a part of my Photoshop toolbar at all! It just...doesn’t go away! Sorry!! (You can also use the letter M on your keyboard as a shortcut!)

Okay, have you clicked on your Rectangular Marquee Tool? Drag your mouse over your picture, and the little dancing white ants that make up a rectangle will appear. Make a box framing the image you want, then go to:

Image->Crop

That’s it! You can crop it as many times as you want, so don’t worry if you missed something! If you want to go backwards, you can either go to:

Edit->Undo

or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL (or ⌘ if you’re on a Mac)+Z.

When you have the image you want, go to:

Image->Image Size

(or use shortcut ALT+CTRL/⌘+I)

This is where we’ll go to change our image size. STOP!! Before you change your numbers, look at the bottom of your screen. See where it says Constrain Proportions with a checkbox? Make sure there is a check in that box!! If there isn’t, check it off. If you don’t do this, then when you change the size of your width, the height of your image won’t change (and vice versa). Granted, sometimes you want this, but usually, you want to keep your picture in proportion so it doesn’t look strange. Okay, now that your box is checked, look at the size of your width and your height. Unless you cropped perfectly, one number is larger than the other. What I do is find the size that’s smaller and overwrite it with the number 100. I just did that, and my height is 100 and my width is 106 pixels at the moment. I can either hit CANCEL and crop my width a little bit more before repeating the process or click OK and move the left or right arrow buttons on my keyboard over six times. (Because at the moment, I’m six pixels over) This will move my dancing ants, and then I can go in and crop out those six extra pixels. The method you choose is up to you.

Okay, are you at 100x100 pixels now?

Let’s move on!

Go back to your layers palette. Two buttons over from that half-moon on the bottom, you’ll see what looks like a curled up post-it note.

Click that! You’ll get a third layer on your palette. There’s a picture of a gray-and-white-checkered square. It says LAYER 1. If you double-click the words LAYER 1, you can rename the layer to anything you want. You don’t have to, but for images where you have a lot of layers, it helps when it comes to keeping everything organized. I’m going to call my layer “yellow” because I’m going to paint this layer yellow.

Go back to your toolbar. Do you see the tool that looks like a paint bucket? Click it! If you don’t, hover over your icons with a mouse. The words will show up each time you do this. You’ll also see the keyboard shortcut for each tool in parantheses (G is the one for Paint Bucket, for example).

(http://www.newtutorials.com/photoshop-toolbar-tutorial.htm will show you what every tool on your toolbar is. I don’t want to add a screencap of every button and make this too image-intensive. Leave a comment if you want a pic, though, and I’ll send you one! But for the toolbar, I think I’m going to just start mentioning what it is and have you hover for it. Use that site as a reference! ^^;;)

Toward the bottom of your toolbar, you should have a white box and a black box that overlap one another. When you hover over them, they say, Set Foreground Color and Set Background Color. We want to set our foreground color. This is the color that we’re actively using right now. Click on the white square. The Color Picker should show up! I picked a nice, strong yellow. If you want to use the exact shade I have, go to the bottom of the picker where you see the pound (#) sign and input the code e8fd04.

Now, go back to your layers palette. We're going to play with some blend modes now. See at the top where it says NORMAL? We’re going to change that. Go ahead and play with the different effects. http://www.uwec.edu/help/PhotoshopCS2/blendmodes.htm briefly mentions the different modes and shows the difference for each. I’m setting my mode to Linear Burn. The color’s very harsh, though, so to the right, where you see the button that says Opacity, go ahead and type in 50% instead of the 100% default. Ah, much better!!

Now, my image looks like this:

Okay, now make another new layer! (The post-it button, remember?)

Click on the yellow square on your toolbar that you just made and go back into your Color Picker. This time, I chose white (#ffffff). Go back to your toolbar. Click on the image of a paintbrush. (It says Brush Tool. The keyboard shortcut is B.) I want to pick a brush that has a soft edge. At the top of your screen, you should see a row of options. One should say BRUSH with a little circle/number (I don’t know what the default brush that the program starts with is, sorry!). Click this circle. You’ll get something that looks likes this:

In red, you can see the brush I chose. Notice how the edges are sort of blurry? That means that the brush has a soft edge and isn’t hard like the solid circles you see above it. You can make the brush smaller or larger by changing your Master Diameter (you can also hit [ on your keyboard to make your brush a smaller size and ] to make the brusher a larger size w/o going back into this panel). You can also adjust the hardness of your brush here.

With the soft brush that you’ve chosen, draw a square around your image. Mine looks like this:

Okay, we’re going to add another blending option now! Go back to that bar that says NORMAL in your layers. This time, change it to SOFT LIGHT. With some pictures, flooding a picture with white and softening it will do wonders. I use this trick a lot. It doesn’t do a ton to this image, but it lightens it up a bit and brings out some of the yellow reflection in the clouds.

Okay, now, make ANOTHER new layer! Click on your white square. Pick a nice, dreamy blue. I picked # 799ead. Using your Paint Bucket Tool, fill the entire layer with color. Now, go back to your Normal Mode and change it to Soft Light. It gets rid of some of the gritty color and adds a nice hue, imo.

Next, we’re going to—you guessed it!!—make another new layer! We’re going to make our foreground color a darker blue this time. I chose # 20566c. Using your Paint Bucket Tool, fill the entire layer with color. This time when you go over to your layers palette, we’re not going to play with our modes. Lower the Opacity to 39% to reduce some of the image’s blackness. Now I have this:

Looking better, but it still feels unfinished. To keep this tutorial simple, I’m going to add a simple pattern. Go back to your half-moon icon. Click it, then choose the Pattern option.

Pattern Fill should have come up for you. See the first red square in my diagram there with the little arrow? Click it, and you’ll get some preset patterns. (Follow my arrow and you’ll see the box that pops up with presets.) I chose the third box in, which I’ve outlined in red (You can also add more presets by clicking on the arrow to the right of THAT box and then clicking Artist Surfaces/Color Paper/etc.)

Did you choose the pattern you liked? Okay! Now, go back to your Opacity and lower it to 25% (or to whatever level suits you. Also feel free to skip this step if you don’t like the effect at all, or delete it/hide it on your palette!)

Okay, here’s where I am:

Finally, we’re going to add some text to finish things up. Go back to your toolbar and click the button that looks like the letter T. (Ironically, the letter T is also your keyboard shortcut.) This is your text tool. Click the tool into the image wherever you want your text to be.

Now, remember that Options Palette I wanted you to have earlier? We’re going to use it! If your setup is just like mine at the moment, it’s the button with the letter A and a vertical line that’s near the top right of your screen near your Navigator palette. Here’s an image:

(Er, ignore that thing that says EN English (United States). That’s just a floating keyboard I have for when I want to change my keyboard to be able to write in Japanese and kanji and all that good stuff. It’s not a part of Photoshop.)

Click that A button.

Now, you can pick your font choice, the size of your font, the color, the width, etc! Everything you could ever need is at your fingertips. There’s a great website called www.dafont.com I get so many fonts there!! I chose the font jey. (http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=jey)

[http://www.dafont.com/faq.php will show you how to install fonts onto your computer if you don’t already know how.]

I picked a white in #ffffff. I decided to use the words “watch for me” as my text from the quote,

“Watch for me by moonlight; I'll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way.” ~Alfred Noyes

Okay, almost done! I didn’t like the way the words stood against the page, so I decided to change them.

Go back to your layers palette. Right-click on your text layer (it will be named “watch for me” or whatever else you have chosen to write onto your icon). A menu of choices comes up. Click Blending Options.

Blending modes are wonderful. I use them *all* the time. You can use them for image layers, text layers...anything, really!

First, I decided to add an Outer Glow to bring some moonlight into my text. So check the checkbox and make sure there’s a blue bar over the words “outer glow” to show that you’re in that option frame. On the right, you have a bunch of options. I didn’t change anything in my Elements or Quality settings. They’re regular. I only changed my Structure settings, and even then, not all of them. I have the Blend Mode set at Screen, the Opacity at 75%, the Noise at 0%, and my color (the square one) is #7c7c59.

Next, I added an Inner Glow. Again, I only changed my Structure settings, and even then, not all of them. I have the Blend Mode set at Screen, the Opacity at 75%, the Noise at 0%, and my color (the square one) is #3d3d16 because I didn’t want too much.

Finally, I added a Drop Shadow. My blend mode is Multiply, my color is #000000B, and my Opacity is 60%.

Finally, say OK to exit out of blend mode and utilize the settings you’ve created.

Here we are:

For my final step, I decided to add a small line beneath my text. I went back to my white #ffffff and took my paintbrush (the same one as before) all the way down to a Master Diameter of 1. I didn’t want a big brush. Then, holding down on my SHIFT BUTTON (SHIFT will give you a straight line), I drew a line beneath the words “watch for me.”

Next, I went to my layers palette, took my layer with my white line, held down on the layer with my mouse, and dragged the layer down so that I moved it beneath my text layer. You can drag layers back and forth so that they’re over/under each other this way whenever you wish to do so.

Once my white line was beneath my text, I took the fill down to 36%.

The very last thing you must do is save!!! However, if you just save the way you’ve been doing all along, your file will save as a .psd file, which can’t be used as an avatar. You can do:

File->Save As->filename+jpg/gif/etc.,

but what I’ve gotten into the habit of doing is:

File->Save for Web & Devices->(making sure my settings are on JPG and MAXIMUM at 100% Quality with Optimized checked, then I hit SAVE and name my file, then finally click SAVE again. VOILA!!!

And that’s it! We’re done! Here’s my avatar:

What does yours look like? Please post it in the comments and show me. I really want to see! Also, did this help you? Was it too easy? I don’t know what level everyone is at. What would you like to see/do in the future?

Let me know what I can change/make better. I’ve never made a tutorial before!

twilight zone An update is here!

2006-09-05T14:31:20Z

I'm really sorry for neglecting this poor blog for so long! As you probably know, this last semester of school was HELL for me. I didn't have any free time to breathe, let alone fool around on the computer. This summer, I had spotty internet. Now that I'm in Japan with a full-time job and not fighting the battle of school on the side, I plan to update more frequently!

I realllllllllllllllly need to get back into iconning. I wonder if my communities are upset that I abandoned them?? *I'm sorry!!!*

I have a few random icons here and there that will make their way here as I organize things. I want to re-do these posts so that what I have so far is grouped together. That will make it easier to make memories and chronicle things a bit better.

I really need to get back into the swing of things. I'm finally dusting off my writing skills, but now my Photoshopping skills are dustier than ever. I really need to start playing again--especially because all of the new features sound like so much fun (especially Vanishing Point)!!!

More icons!

2006-01-07T19:41:41Z

Fresh from the press! These are the (21) icons that I worked on over break that weren't for anything special.

Sample:

Alice 19 [Wakamiya Kyou]

01

Beauty and the Beast [Belle]

02

Ewan McGregor:

03

Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne

04

Katie Holmes:

05 06 07 08
09 10 11

Sailor Moon [Hotaru]

12

Teen Titans [Raven]

13

Misc.:

14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21

Icons 20 & 21 both prominently feature a texture by either masterjinn or jadedicons. I have to look it up later because I downloaded from both of these wonderful people on the same day and the saved file is just a number in a folder for them both. Mmm. I use these two a lot...they make beautiful goodies for icon makers!! All of my other stuff is (or will soon be) in my sources file as always.

If you know who the anime girls are in the misc. screencaps, do let me know. I just found the pictures randomly!

Later on I will decipher which icons I've done since the last big post b/c I know I didn't have time to post what little I did all semester. I also have to update my list of sources. But, for now...FOOD!!!

Comments are signs of love... ^_^

Last Wave..

2006-01-07T18:31:47Z

Okay, so while I was home, I intended to finish my 100 icons for icons100. Truly. But...I had no internet and I couldn't DVDcap the movie and I didn't have as much time as I thought I would. I did, however, make 25 icons...and so I may not have made any deadlines..or extension deadlines...but I do still have some fresh icons!!

Sample:

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

I didn't put the categories each icon fulfilled...it's kind of pointless if I didn't meet deadline, right?

...I love comments, even if it's a flame [and I know some of these really suck, so...!!]

Abracadabra......I AM alive!!

2005-11-28T06:16:00Z

Okay, so I have ten more Ever After icons.

I know, I know, long time no see. School is KILLING me this semester--Literally AND figuratively. I wouldn't have had time to make these if my internet hadn't been down for the past week (and all of my work, of course, didn't get done because of this fact...now I'm behind since it finally came back up TONIGHT >.<).

I have some random icons and stuff on my desktop that I'll get around to posting..erhm....one of these days?

But for now......Ever After icons because I DID sign up for a challenge on icons100 way back when.........but I have had no time to work on it! (If I had known how horrible this semester would be, I would have never signed up...I feel horrible for not being able to finish what I said I would do ;_;).

Anyway, a preview:

Sorry that these aren't the best icons I've ever made--I'm a bit rusty this semester!!

11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20

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Themes Used So Far:
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Icon 11 fits Theme #40: Desire.
Icon 14 fits Theme #32: Reminisce. Danielle is reminiscing over memories of her father in my icon. :-)
Icon 15 fits Theme #18: All That I Am. I wrote the words "All That I Am" in tiny text in the bottom right corner of the icon.
Icon 16 fits Theme #50: Water.
Icon 17 fits Theme #43: Companionship. Danielle and Prince Henry are happy simply being together!
Icon 18 fits Theme #06: A Dreamer's Dream. Danielle is dreaming of how her 'happily ever after' actually came true!!
Icon 19 fits Theme #14: Smile.
Icon 20 fits Theme #31: Hush. By 'hush,' I assumed that this was to be an icon without words. :-)

There we go! 8/10 of the icons are themed today! I could have wrangled the others in, but hopefully the spots will go to more deserving icons! ^_^

For my first ten entries, click here.

Living a Fairytale...

2005-09-25T07:36:28Z

These are my first ten entries for the icons100 challenge! I really must be crazy....

Then again, I also thought I'd have a lot more free time than I do, lol! Oh well! It'll give me something to relax to!!

I have claimed the character Danielle De Barbarac from the movie Ever After. I'm really excited because I've been wanting to make icons for this movie for ages now, and I never get around to it!!

If you take any icons, please comment..or at least credit. Then again...I just love comments. :-)

If you want to credit me for anything, please credit baine @ scribbledoodle.

All of the brush-makers I use are listed on my Info Page, though I do have to go back and add a few...but I think they're all on the computer that isn't hooked up atm.

01 02 03 04 05
07 07 08 09 10

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Themes Used So Far:
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Icon 01 fits Theme #01: Alone. I actually was thinking about using a word for being lonely when I first started doing this icon because of Danielle's expression. I decided instead to use the name "Cindergirl" to show how estranged she is from her family. When I saw that "Alone" was one of the themes we had to use, I figured that this fit the criteria!!
Icon 09 fits Theme #03: Embrace. This is a scene from the beginning of the movie when Danielle and her father are reunited. I used the term utopia because of their "special book" and because the term can be seen as ideal perfection...this is one of the duo's last "perfect days" together.
Icon 06 fits Theme #24: Regret. It's funny, because this is another icon that I finished, then noticed a category for (I honestly didn't look at themes until just now).
Icon 10 fits Theme #37: Kiss. Danielle and Prince Henry are about to kiss....
Icon 02 fits Theme #42: Fury. Can't you see how POed Danielle is just from the look in her eyes?

More to come....

To bring us up to speed....

2005-09-25T07:07:30Z

Geh. I'm so annoyed that I had to go and lose all of my entries. Now I can't track what I did week by week, etc. Well, I saved the page itself, so someday when I have time to re-html it all I guess I can do a lump entry in the first slot so it doesn't clog FLs. I dunno. Besides, those pages had all of my credit information. GAH!!!

Anyway, I've decided to just throw everything underneath a cut so that every icon ever is here. At least it will be organized this way!!! The only order to it is that I'll be going from the oldest page of my photobucket account to the newest page, so everyone will go from oldest to newest (relatively, anyway) by category. ^_^

Preview:

[All four of these are relatively new icons that never made it here to begin with....]

Many of these icons were made for various challenges that I enter each week. Some of them are not. :-)
Credits are on my info page, though I do need to update it a bit as soon as I get some time...I'd do it now, but some of my newer brushes are on the other computer, which isn't hooked up atm.

I admit, some of these icons really suck. Yet I’ve made them…even if I’m not proud of them. There are a few that I really, really like, though, so it balances everything out!! I always try to submit what I can, even if it’s crap, b/c I know I’m always sad when nobody enters contests!

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You can take as many icons as you want—but it would be super if you could credit baine @ scribbledoodle so that people know where they came from! ^_^

[02] Bridget Jones’ Diary
[14] From various CLAMP series
[08] From various Disney movies
[10] Ever After
[02] Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
[39] From various Final Fantasy games
[12] Gilmore Girls
[08] Harry Potter
[03] Kaleido Star
[04] Moulin Rouge
[01] Peach Girl
[29] Sailor Moon (anime, manga & PGSM…)
[25] Teen Titans
[04] Wicked the Musical
[08] Miscellaneous
[17] Banners

[Bridget Jones' Diary]

01 02

[CLAMP]

==>Card Captor Sakura

03 04 05 06

==>Chobits

07 08

==>Clover

09

==>Magic Knight Rayearth

10 11 12 13 14

==>Tsubasa

15 16

[Disney]

==>Brother Bear

17 18

==>The Little Mermaid

19

==>The Lion King

20 21

==>Mulan

22

==>Nightmare Before Christmas

23

==>Tarzan

24

[Ever After]

25 26 27 28 29
30 31 32 33 34

[Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind]

35 36

[Final Fantasy]

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

[Gilmore Girls]

76 77 78 79 80
81 82 83 84 85
86 87

[Harry Potter]

88 89 90 91 92
93 94 95

[Kaleido Star]

96 97 98

[Moulin Rouge]

99 100 101 102

[Peach Girl]

103

[Sailor Moon]

104 105 106 107 108
109 110 111 112 113
114 115 116 117 118
119 120 121 122 123
124 125 126 127 128
129 130 140 150

[Teen Titans]

151 152 153 154 155
156 157 158 159 160
161 162 163 164 165
166 167&168 169&170
171&172 173 174 175

[Wicked the Musical]

176 177 178 179

[Misc.--Magic]

180 181 182 183 184
185 186

[Misc.--Kiss]

187

[Misc.--Random]

188

[Banners that I’ve won]

These are the banners I physically have…other icons won stuff but a banner was never made. I’m not sweating it, though. I think banner makers are amazingly-talented—they always look so much better than the actual icons ever could!!

Whew! That was a long, sordid mess!!! Oh well, at least it'll never be that big again! I still can't believe I've made so many icons!!

Time for a change!

2005-09-11T12:22:42Z

Okay, so I just turned this ijournal into a community. Why, you ask? Mainly because it's easier than logging in and out all of the time. Not to mention, now I can post with more than three icons and I can have specialized mood icons (I need to change them soon, though....along with my layout!).

Anyway, sorry for the confusion!

I will update soon with a post of all of my icons....I wanted to re-up my entries and backdate them, but that isn't allowed in a community and I didn't want to spam you all with a zillion entries. :-(

I have to leave for work soon, so it may not be until later this week since I have J-Board after work and that can last until 10 p.m.! 13-hour day....here I come! x.X