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shorebound — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:14:27 GMT

MOVED
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Brush Set #1 - Small Text

shorebound — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 15:23:26 GMT

[.abr | Image Pack]

Comment, Credit, Enjoy! :)

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shorebound — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 13:41:13 GMT

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-No Hotlinking
-No Editing the Icons
-Credit is not necassery, but is appreciated.
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25 Icons
-5 Closer Icons
-4 Kill Bill Icons
-13 Fashion Icons
-2 House of Flying Daggers Icons
-1 Lost In Translation Icon
Credit
teh_indy
_coquettish
my_wonderful
porcelainveins
_joni
inxsomniax
foto_decadent
cap_it
Comments
Sorry for the long lack of updates. I havent had very much inspiration at all. It took me a while to do these icons and i just finished the last one. Im getting kinda bored of the 100x100 limit of icons, so i think in the future i may start make FO banners, none the less, hope you enjoy these icons.

shorebound — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:52:45 GMT

Im sorry about the Broken Images the bandwith on my hgost has run out, but it should be back by july first. Sorry for any inconveniences.

Tutorial #2 Creating a Monochrome Reapeating Icon

shorebound — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 15:45:10 GMT

Changing This:

to This:

First i start with my image. I cropped it, resized it to 100x100, brightened it a bit in photoshop using multiple screen layers (Duplicate base image, set blend mode to screen) then sharpened it. This is what i got:

Since I need ot work on my closer icons, for Icons100, i'll use a picture of Julia. Now, this is already a very nice icon. Add a bit of text, some brushes and blending effects, voila, a nice icon, but thats not what im teaching. Next set your brightened image to grayscale, (Imge>>Mode>>Grayscale), if an option comes up, choose Don't Flatten. After youve converted your image, convert it back to RGB, and once again. Don't Flatten.

Next, we are going to adjust the brightness and contrast. Go to Image>>Adjustments>>Brightness/Contrast, and make your settings somewhere relative to mine. I Had Brightness +32 Contrast +50. This is what you should come up with:

Next on a new layer, i touched it up with a hard-edged round paintbrush, and i painted white over some of the blotchy areas:

I made a selection around the area i wanted to repeat:

I Pasted it on, moved it, and rotated it, and then touched up with a paintbrush, this part is very interprative, do what you feel looks nice. This is what i can up with:

Now i made a bar about 10-15 pixels tall and however long you want the text in it to reach, then filled it with black. Over it i typed a quote in white letters, you use whatever font you like.

The last part just adds that final touch, i take 100x100 floral brushes in black and make a new layer below the black bar layer, then paint them on around it. I also tested wether it looked better with or without a border.

And there you have it :) Hope the tutorial was useful.

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shorebound — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:40:56 GMT

VOUGEICON

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-Do Not Edit The Icons
-Credit is NOT NECESSARY, but is appreciated.
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I'm not very extatic about these icons, definately not my best batch. But I decided to post them before I had to leave anyway. I joined icons100 with the claim of Closer, my favorite movie. So theres some closer's in there. and theres been alot of avant-garde icons going on here, as ususal, theres about 8 of those. Oh yes, me and apnea__ created an icon community called VOUGEICON, the link its up at the top, it would mean a ton to us if you joined!

Icons
8 Fasion/Avant-Garde Icons
7 Closer Icons

Credits
teh_indy
_coquettish
porcelainveins
_joni
foto_decadent
MissLili.net

shorebound — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:27:43 GMT

VOUGEICON

Alice In Wonderland Special Set

shorebound — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:39:33 GMT

I created a set of icons based off some photography I found, and to me, they resembled the "Alice in Wonderland" series of events. So i made a set of five, and they all are from a set of five photos, i hope you guys like them.

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-Do not Hotlink
-Do Not Edit Icons
-Credit is NOT nescacery, but is appreciated. Credit goes to shorebound.
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Credits
foto_decadent
_coquettish

Hope you guys enjoy em ;0

#6

shorebound — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:52:00 GMT

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-Do Not Hotlink
-Do not edit Icons
For more go to Info

Credits
teh_indy
_coquesttish
inxsomniax
percelainviens
_joni
cap_it
foto_decadent

4 Thirteen Icons
16 Fashion Icons

#5

shorebound — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 01:17:23 GMT

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-Do not Edit Icons
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Credits
porcelainveins
cap_it
teh_indy
inxsomniax

5 Big Fish Icons
7 Fashion Photography Icons

2 New affiliates: iconomatopoeia and porcelainveins

#4

shorebound — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:39:40 GMT

-Do not Hotlink.
-No not edit Icons.
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Credits:
teh_indy
inxsomniax
cap_it
colorfilter

18 Saved! Icons
6 Hero Icons

#3

shorebound — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 23:19:21 GMT

Do not hotlink.
Do not edit.
Credit is not nessacery, but is appreciated.
For more see: INFO

Credits:
cap_it
inxsomniax

15 New Icon
7 Closer Icons
1 Free Zone Icon
6 Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith Icons
1 Saved! Icon

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Icon Tutorial #1: "Hello Stranger"

shorebound — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:03:55 GMT

Well, I've been obsessed with two things lately. 1> Closer, this movie is absolutely amazing, awe-inspiring. So watch it. 2> Making Icons, Yeah, i started this journal last week, because i just LOOVED TO MAKE TEH ICONS. So, i decided to create a walkthrough of an icon i made, since i had nothign better to do.

This is a cap of the beautiful julia roberts, from the movie closer. This is a part, where, she and larry walk along the Thames (i think), and larry buys anna some balloons for her birthday, thus, she smiles. I thought it was a nice picture, so i thought i would use it. You can look in Cap it!'s memories.

I opened the image in photoshop. At this point examine athe picture, and figure out what view, shpes and lines you want in the icon. Sometimes asymetrical icons look beautiful. But i decided to go with a strait face shot. I used the marquee tool and held shift while i dragged, so that the selection would be a perfect square.

Fallow these directions once your selection is... selected. On the tool bar: Edit>Copy Merged, File>New... (Phototshop will automatically set the dimensions), Edit>Paste. Your image is now sqaured. If your wondering why its a little big, is because, i work with images big, then when im done editing, i resize, but your image must be a complete square.

Make a new layer. Go to your Tools Bar, and click and hold on the paint bucket, a drop out menu should appear, click on the gradient setting. Save the above image, and open up the drop down menu for gradient types, I chose the color from the boat in the background of the image, but you may choose other colors. Make sure the gradient is Solid to Transparent. Now drag the gradient from the upper right corner.

In your layers window, go to the blending change drop down menu, and choose Color Dodge. This is what you should end up with:

I did the same thing from the lower left corner but with a darker color on a new layer:

use a color picker to select that, and then apply the exact same gradient, from the lower left corner, and turn on Color dodge, next, change it's opacity to 52%:

Here we will sharpen the image, it looks like a bad optimized image at first, but when we resize the icon, it will look better. Figure 1-a (hold mouse over image to see what figure) is the steps you should take to apply Sharpen More, and figure 2-a is what it should look like after, remmeber to only sharpen the layer with the actual; image of Julia on it..

New Layer. Here i layed down some base grunge brushes, in the same color as the second gradient, on the background. If any got ont the face I would erase with the same brush, so as not to ruin the effect. Grunge brushes are v ery good for base effects, because theyre so random. Next I turned on Color Dodge, leave the opacity alone.

New layer. I took the the coilor from a strand of hair in the icon, (you can use mine if you wish), and applys a grune diagonal line brush in Color Dodge mode.if you like it really bright, you can leave it, but for me, i had to change the opacity:

Opacity at 26%
New layer. Finally i layed down a nice rose diagonal (on the oposite diagonal of course) down in Overlay mode at 15% opacity.

New Layer. Take the color from the first picture, and either, type yourself, or use large text brushes. Next apply Color Dodge blending mode, and lower the opacity to 15%:

Next, on the top bar go to: Image>Image Size and make sure the properties are the same as the second image above. This is what you should come up with:

Now, you can leave it, but i like to add text and stuff. So i typed "hello stranger", a very prominent line in the movie, in a rose color on a new layer. Next click the selection tool, on your tools bar. Make a new layer underneath your text layer, and hold Ctrl and Alt then click on the text layer. Make sure you are on the layer beneath it , and with the selection tool still selected, on the arrow keeps, press down once, and over which ever way once, then fill with black. Next reselect the text layer, and making sure you are still on the shadow layer, press delete on your key board. Finally i lowered the opacity of the shadow layer down to 48%:

Finally, in a new layer, i added a 2 px bvorder around the edge in the same rose as the type, and applyed Color Dodge mode, then capped it with a 1 px white border all around the edge on a new layer, this is what you should have:

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shorebound — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 02:41:24 GMT

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Fisrt Post - 5 Icons

shorebound — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 15:57:50 GMT

Okai, my first 5 icons, hope you like.

5 Natalie Portman Icons
3 Blend Icons
2 Trend Icons

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