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Icons: Pushing Daisies, X-Files

2007-10-15T14:31:08Z

Icons from the opening episodes of Pushing Daisies, and X-Files Season 3, ("Pusher", "Quagmire" and "Syzygy".) Because they put me in a good mood and it felt good to have something to post again.

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14. 17. 26.

Pushing Daisies (thanks to dj_capslock for the caps):

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.

17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.

X-Files Season 3 (thanks to The X-Files Screengrab Archive for the caps):

25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34.

BSG Picspam: Crossroads, Part 2

2007-03-28T19:41:20Z

Okay. So. It's three days later and the BSG season finale is still melting my brain. I think I need some help. So I decided ~~instead of watching the ending for the 5,687th time~~ to channel my mytharc lust into a picspam.

I've unlocked this post in case anyone wants to share. Feel free to share the caps, if any of them are useful for icon-making, etc. (But please, do not hotlink!)

WARNING: Very image heavy, and so very, very spoilery.

...
Seriously, y'all, this ep won't leave my brain. And at the time I was watching it, I don't remember feeling seriously surprised because so much of it was either telegraphed very sensibly (the music --> revealing Cylons) or seemed like a logical next step (Kara returning but with a twist). There was something about the way it all played out, and the music, and to see all the characters coming together and the whole story just jumping to this whole other place. Mytharc? Now this is freaking mytharc.

I kind of love how all the seats on Colonial One are still there. Reminds you that Roslin's bedroom is really a converted passenger ship.

"Yes sir, okay sir, anything you say sir."

Mutual hawt Cyloninity = a powerful attractive force.

"What did you just say?"

Awkward. (Oh poor Seelix.)

Meanwhile, Lee is looking particularly yummy as he suggests going for a mistrial.

Whoa, hold the phone. I thought we were winning?

I enjoy that you can see his biceps through his shirt in this scene.

*is surrounded by morons*

Racetrack is so tiny you could fit her in your pocket. Also I love how you can hear her Canadian accent here.

I love the blocking in this scene.

Sam is definitely freaking out.

As are Laura and Athena.

"Were you with us just now? In the opera house?"

"That's not possible."

"Add it to the list."

Meanwhile, Gaius is still surrounded by morons.

Oh Gaeta, you perjuring little slime.

"Butterfingers!"

Well this doesn't look good for justice...

Guess what, Lee, you're going on the stand.

But you look so pretty.

*watches his puppets dance*

*gives up*

Roslin and Tory can't believe their ears.

*likes what he's hearing*

Lee/justice = OTP.

Verdict time.

Oooh, Lee, there's no going back from that now. ~~No more sleepovers on Colonial One.~~

"I knew I was going to win, just knew it, wasn't that awesome of me?"

"Don't push it."

"I think we've all arrived at a very special place, hm?"

"But... you don't want to stick around and be my entourage?"

*grit their teeth*

Oh Lee, you're so pretty when you're noble.

Come back Romo! Any time!

Meanwhile, Laura's skin is crawling.

But Bill voted for the acquittal!

Sorry Bill, no more sleepovers for you either.

*slinks off with his tail between his legs*

I love it when they do FTL-jump shots.

Oh no, Laura is fainting! Is she the 5th Cylon? Is it because of Hera's dreams? I need to knowwwwww....

Uh-oh.

Excuse me as my skin crawls right off my body. Ooh.

"There must be some way out of here."

"Said the joker to the thief."

"There's too much confusion."

"I can't get no relief."

I loved this whole scene from top to bottom. The way the characters came into the room, the way they didn't want to know what was going on but deep down they still did. Where they put the camera, the way they shot it, and the way the actors all sold it. It's so heartbreaking for all of them, and guh, watching them struggle. But at the same time, I feel like these are all such fundamentally good people, and they don't want to live a lie.

"WHOA."

Tigh looks so scared.

"Deadbolt that FRAKKING DOOR."

"What about Ellen?"

"I watched all my friends die, for frakking THIS?!?"

"We're Cylons. And we have been from the start."

Meanwhile, the ship is under attack. There's something reassuring about seeing Dee and Helo back at their posts. And when they get worried you know it's bad.

"I'm an officer in the Colonial Fleet. And if I die today, that's the man I'll be."

"You can count on me"

Roslin looks so reassured now that Tori's there.

There's something about this look between Tigh and Tori that put a nice grace note on the whole scene. They looked so scared about what was going to happen next, but still resolved.

This transition to Lee getting in the Viper, guhhh. Sometimes I think they don't even need dialogue to do this show. All they need is the cast and Bear McCreary.

There she is!

"Hi, Lee."

*...*

She's all calm. Neat.

The best pan-out in the history of moving pictures:

Base stars ZOMG!

That ought to do it. Until next January. *weeps*

Icons: Bones, Love Actually, Wallpaper: X-files

2006-12-17T19:07:16Z

Icons from this week's Bones, and also Love Actually, since 'tis the season. Thanks to dj43 for the caps for both.

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10. 16. 22.

Love Actually:

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.

Bones 2.11, "Judas on a Pole":

13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.

X-Files:

I was at lunch with the gals yesterday and we started reminiscing about the X-Files days, so I got all nostalgic and made a banner. (Text is from "David Duchovny" by Bree Sharp) I've made a banner and icon version as well which can be used as an LJ layout. Unfortunately I, uh, have zero knowledge about how to install one. But please take if you like, only credit me somewheres if you do. Enjoy!

800x600

Icons: BSG

2006-12-04T19:14:30Z

Icons from ep 3.09, "Unfinished Business"! Thanks to dj43 for the caps.

01. 05. 10.

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01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14.

Textures by peoplemachines
9: Alias. (Re-doing an old version.)

Icons: Bones

2006-11-17T04:00:33Z

Icons from Bones ep 2.09, "The Aliens in a Spaceship." (How did ~~TJ Thyne~~ this show become so awesome?) Thanks to dj43 for the caps.

01. 10. 18.

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01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.

Icons: Casino Royale

2006-11-14T23:31:28Z

rhienelleth asked for some Bond icons, and even though this was very very very bad for my work ethic today, it did mean getting to look at nice caps of Daniel Craig, which is totally a win. :D Thanks to nothingsound for the caps from the trailer.

01. 11. 16.

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01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.

Icons: Bones, X-Files

2006-11-07T22:00:26Z

Two sets of icons, one from Bones 2.07, "The Girl With The Curl", and X-Files 3.20, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'". Thanks to killerweasel for the Bones caps.

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10. 11. 19.

Bones 2.07

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.

X-Files 3.20

17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26. 27. 28.

Icons: Bones, Felicity

2006-09-04T13:34:06Z

Two wee sets from the Bones season opener and miscellaneous Felicity Season 4.

12. 14. 19.

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Ep 2.01, "The Titan on the Tracks". Thanks to dj43 and killerweasel for the caps.

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.

Felicity 4.01, "The Declaration" and 4.07, "The Storm".

17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26.

Icons & Mood Theme: Clue

2006-08-22T15:21:47Z

24 icons and a mood theme from the movie Clue (1985). The world needs more of this movie. :D Most of these icons and mood pics were made using caps by cee_m. Thanks to her for the great capping!

05. 19. 22.

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01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.

Mood theme:

To use, download cluemood.zip (sendspace link, reuploaded Sept 26), and save pictures to your own server (e.g. photobucket). Follow instructions on the included text file, or go to the LJ Manage Journal Page to use the Mood Theme Editor, to upload pics to LJ.

Icons: Tutorials (PS 7)

2006-06-18T20:09:44Z

These are some quick icon tutorials for Photoshop, as a result of me rifling through my .psd files and chatting up icons with lady_octavia. Just outlining some steps from a couple recent batches, playing around. :) All of these are shareable with credit. (posted to icon_tutorial)

1. >> Simple Colouring

1. Base image:

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2. To brighten it up: duplicate your base three times and set all three layers to "Screen" @ 100% opacity.

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3. Create a new top layer, flood fill with a dark blue (below), and set to "Exclusion" @ 100%. The lighter the shade of blue you choose, the more pronounced the colouring effect will be.

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4. Duplicate your base layer again and move it to the top. Set to "Soft Light" @ 100%.

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5. Create a new top layer, flood fill with a light blue (below), and set to "Color Burn" @ 70%. With "Burn" layers, the higher the opacity, the darker the icon will be. An extra base layer or colour layer on "Screen" also sometimes works well in addition to the "Burn" layer.

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6. Create a new top layer, flood fill with a medium blue (below), and set to "Overlay" @ 44% opacity. (I wanted to give the green in the background a little more zing.)

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7. Add some quick text. This was in font "Staccato222", 11pt.

>> Done!

Others made using a similar style:

2. >> Black & White from a Colour Image

B&W's are ones that I found much trickier than I expected, because even though they don't have the same colouring tricks, they do need a lot of shading and contrast to really look smooth. If I start with a black and white image, I usually end up playing with the layers palette and Brightness/Contrast feature to punch them up a bit. After a while I realized that the nicest B&W's came from icons that started off in colour. This one here is just a quick example of a gradient map.

1. Base image:

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2. Duplicate twice and set both layers to "Screen", as above:

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3. Create a new top layer and flood fill with dark blue, as above, and set to "Exclusion":

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4. Duplicate the base layer and set to "Soft Light" at 55% opacity:

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5. Go to Edit > Select All (ctrl-A), then Edit > Copy Merged (Ctrl-Shift-C), then Edit > Paste (Ctrl-V) to get the merged image on a new layer. (You can also go straight to Layer > Flatten Image. I usually paste it as a new layer so I don't lose the original layers, just in case of making changes later.)

6. To turn this layer into black & white, instead of going straight to "Desaturate" (Ctrl-Shift-U) go to Layer > Adjustments > Gradient Map. You'll see a new box with a set of default gradients. The first option will be a gradient with the two colours in your current working palette. After that will be a black & white: select that one.

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To compare, this is how the same layer looks after "Desaturate". See the difference in contrast & shading?

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7. For the last step I added a li'l dab of colour with one of the soft round default brushes, at about 45px, and set this layer to "Screen":

>> Done!

Others made using this method:

3. >> Extending Blank Space

This is where I get a leeetle crazy and possibly certifiable. It started when I was playing around with some caps, trying to get that nice off-centre cropping, but couldn't get as much background space as I wanted because of the way the caps were cut off. But if your cap is right, this can be circumvented with a little strategery and a lot of patience.

(Note that this works best on images where the background is very plain, or if textured then very evenly textured.)

1. Base image, cropped from the original cap, and after some quick colouring.

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2. Move this down a smidge to create the amount of space you want.

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3. Now decide how you want to fill it, which boils down to looking at what pattern is there in the original background, and extrapolating the same pattern into the empty space. There are two ways to do this: either copy pieces of the original base and paste it into the new space, or re-create similar pattern using your basic paint tools in Photoshop. Since this one is pretty simple, I ended up painting it in by hand.

To start: lift the off-white colour from the background with your eyedropper, and fill in the empty space at the top.

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Next, to extend the lines on the wall, take your selection tool and (either on your current layer or on a new top layer), extend the line up to the top of the icon (you may want to zoom in a bit):

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Lift the same dark grey from the original line and flood fill the selected area:

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Repeat the same process for the fainter lines in the back. You can even duplicate the little dashes with the line tool, at 1px size:

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If you used separate layers to add your background elements, copy your merged image now to a new layer, for smoothing out the rest.

4. The last bit that needs fixing is the top of Jack's head on the side, that got cut off by the original cap. Take your smudge tool at about 5px size and just stretch out the top there:

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5. To finish up, take your blur tool on very low strength, 10-15%, and give it a swipe over the new background elements you've just added. This should mask the "new"-ness of the changes and make it generally smoother. Depending on the kind of background you've got, you can use any or a combination of the Blur, Gaussian Blur, and Sharpen Filters to mask the changes and make it seem more like a whole image again.

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6. At this point you're essentially done and can use this as your new base image. After this I added a duplicate base layer on Screen, and some text, in font "Basic Dots" at 14pt.

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Whether or not this works really just depends on the nature of the image you're working with and how well you can mask the join between new & original portions of the image. Try line & selection tools, feathering, brushes, clone stamp, copying & pasting bits and pieces of images in. Smudge it, blur it, sharpen it, see what works.

Others made using similar methods:

Happy icon-making!

Icons: BtVS/Summer of Giles

2006-06-10T12:13:24Z

This is my entry for summer_of_giles: 121 Giles icons, one for each episode he was in. No-fuss-no-muss, just a general sampling of the Giles canon. I hope I didn't miss an episode from Season 7 in there, but oh dear lord don't tell me if I have. @_@ *g* Enjoy!

36. 100. 118.

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+ With thanks to Screencap Paradise for caps, and katekat1010 for hosting the marathon. :)

001. 002. 003. 004. 005.
006. 007. 008. 009. 010.
011. 012. 013. 014. 015.
016. 017. 018. 019. 020.
021. 022. 023. 024. 025.
026. 027. 028. 029. 030.
031. 032. 033. 034. 035.
036. 037. 038. 039. 040.
041. 042. 043. 044. 045.
046. 047. 048. 049. 050.
051. 052. 053. 054. 055.
056. 057. 058. 059. 060.
061. 062. 063. 064. 065.
066. 067. 068. 069. 070.
071. 072. 073. 074. 075.
076. 077. 078. 079. 080.
081. 082. 083. 084. 085.
086. 087. 088. 089. 090.
091. 092. 093. 094. 095.
096. 097. 098. 099. 100.
101. 102. 103. 104. 105.
106. 107. 108. 109. 110.
111. 112. 113. 114. 115.
116. 117. 118. 119. 120.
121.

Key:
Season 1: #1-12
Season 2: #13-34
Season 3: #35-56
Season 4: #57-78
Season 5: #79-100
Season 6: #101-108
Season 7: #109-121

ETA: Download all the icons in .zip file here. (Megaupload link)

Icons: Buffy, Alias

2006-04-24T19:25:59Z

Two batches of icons from BtVS ep 3.20, "The Prom", and Alias ep 5.11, "Maternal Instinct" (some are spoilery). Mostly playing around with colours. *g*

01. 17. 25.

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BtVS 3.20 "The Prom"

01. 02. 03. 04.
05. 06. 07. 08.
09. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.

Alias 5.11 "Maternal Instinct"

25. 26. 27. 28.
29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.

(Resources)

Icons: Pride & Prejudice

2006-03-17T17:38:24Z

Icons from the new P&P, after a screencapping binge. I think I now have more caps of Matthew MacFadyen than is strictly healthy. Eheh. Mostly fairly plain. :)

02. 10. 22.

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01. 02. 03.
04. 05. 06.
07. 08. 09.
10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18.
19. 20. 21.
22. 23. 24.
25. 26.

Textures: colorfilter and inxsomniax

Icons: Battlestar Galactica

2006-01-18T12:59:50Z

A mixed set from Season 1, and Episode 2.12 "Resurrection Ship, Part 2".

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4. 7. 18.

Resurrection Ship, Part 2:

1. 2.. 3.. 4..
5. 6.. 7.. 8..
9. 10. 11. 12.

Misc Season 1:

13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

Text:
3: Sarah McLachlan - "World on Fire"
5. Five for Fighting - "Superman"
7. Damien Rice - "Cannonball"

Resources.

And now off to hit the library. ~~Perhaps with a baseball bat or lead pipe.~~

Icons: Pride & Prejudice, Felicity, Bones

2005-11-25T14:17:16Z

Various and sundry - icons from the new Pride & Prejudice, and Felicity (Season 1 - Spooked, Connections, The Force) and a few Bones cause lunasky and hannasus and kelbelle asked. Most of them are pretty plain. I had a hard time putting text on them, especially a lot of the P&P ones, because the caps were just so pretty.

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1. 20. 29.

Pride and Prejudice:

1.. 2... 3.. 4..
5.. 6... 7.. 8..
9.. 10. 11. 12.

Felicity (Season 1):

13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24.
25. 26.

Bones:

27. 28. 29. 30.

Caps:
P&P: Pride and Prejudice (2005): desert_sky (here), wikidwitch (here)
Bones: killerweasel
Textures: colorfilter

Icons: Resources Post

2005-11-15T21:33:56Z

Just to get this up quick while I'm thinking of it - a general resources post for icons and graphics. I'll add as needed with credit for brushes, textures, caps, and tutorials.

Brushes:

77words (here)
eightyfour__
teh_indy
gnomicons
inxsomniax
crumblingwalls
quebelly
cosmo_mouse
cdg_brushes
nine_am
okayicons

Textures:

Nearly all are by colorfilter. *g*
TRE
blimey_icons
julia_thorne13

Screencaps:

BtVS, AtS: Screencap Paradise
Alias: Alias Media
X-Files: X-Files Screengrab Archive
Bones: Booksandbones, killerweasel (here), dj_capslock
Lost: Lost Media
Pride and Prejudice (2005): desert_sky (here), wikidwitch (here), mine.
LOTR: LOTR Image Library
BSG: BSG Media, _zeus, xsomethingbluex, wisteria_
Clue: cee_m (here)
Bond/Casino Royale: nothingsound (here)
The Office (US): office_caps

Tutorials:

Turning photos into comics.
Outlining.
Clear colouring.
Icon Basics.
Colouring & Brushes.
Making your own light textures.
Comic-book style icons.
Wallpaper.
Photoshop Top 5.
Faded colouring.

Mood Theme: BtVS (general)

2005-11-05T22:23:56Z

This is a general mood theme with pics from Seasons 2-7, mostly including Buffy & the Scoobies, Angel and Spike.

Full preview: here
Download: buffymood.zip (yousendit)
Credit for Screencaps: Screencap Paradise

To use: In the .zip file you'll find a folder with the mood pictures and a "readme" .txt document. Upload the pictures to your own remote hosting server (e.g. photobucket account) first, then follow instructions in the readme file for uploading to LJ. (madam_rptr and kiss_me_cassie, let me know if you guys have any problems!)

[ETA: If the above yousendit link has expired, please let me know in a comment. I'll comment back with a new link. :)]

Icons: Alias, Bones, BtVS

2005-09-30T20:42:18Z

Icons! A mixed batch, playing with new stuff and some old caps that were kicking around:

+ 9 Alias (5.01 Prophet Five)
+ 9 BtVS (What's My Line 2, Bad Eggs, Storyteller)
+ 8 Bones (Pilot and 1.02) <-- Because carmen_sandiego egged me on, and DB is pretty. ;)

2. 17. 25.

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1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
7. 8. 9.

10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15.
16. 17. 18.

19. 20. 21. 22.
23. 24. 25. 26.

Caps:
Alias - Alias Media
Buffy - Screencap Paradise
Bones - kim1989 (Here and here.)
Textures: colorfilter and Tre.
Brushes: teh_indy

Icons: BtVS/HP

2005-08-10T22:14:20Z

When I should have been working on my paper today I ended up procrastinating in Photoshop. *g* I've seen other sets like this for other fandoms, and thought it would be fun to try it for Buffy. I don't know if anyone else has already done this, this is just my take on the characters.

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1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22.

And for When They Were Bad, They Were Very Very Bad:
23. 24.

I want Slytherin. Hee. *rawr evil*

Notes/Credits:
- I had a tough time with some of these, like the Trio, but Andrew was just too gosh darned loyal in S7 he seemed like a Hufflepuff. And Anya & Cordelia aren't bad guys, but I think they're too ambitious not to be Slytherins. ;D I was on the fence about some others, but this made for a balanced sorting. *shrug*
- I used Book-Ravenclaw (orange/blue) colours instead of Movie colours (grey/blue) since it made more of a contrast with the others
- Caps & Pics from Screencap Paradise and Google Image Search
- Cheers to grrliz_icons for the comic-style tutorial, and to toastandtea who did a very cool Alias/HP set

Ahhh, must get dinner on. *dashes*

Icons: Buffy/AtS, ROTK

2005-07-06T14:07:08Z

Icons from the Return of the King, BtVS (episode "Hush"), and AtS (episode "I Will Remember You"). Is it blasphemous to have Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Riley in the same post? *g*

2. 7. 19.

Comment/credit/share/enjoy! :) (Please do not alter blanks)

BtVS/AtS:

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.

LOTR: Return of the King:

17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23.
24. 25. 26. 27.

Caps:
Buffy/Ats: Screencap Paradise
ROTK: Mine
Text:
5: "Have a Little Faith in Me" - John Hiatt
11: "I Second That Emotion" - Smokey Robinson
13: "The Space Between" - Dave Matthews Band

Oh god I'm so very late for the library. *dashes away*

Icons: Buffy

2005-05-26T04:15:05Z

A mixed batch of Buffy stuff! Spike/Buffy, Tabula Rasa and a few others.

1. 13. 17.

Comment/credit if taking. (Please do not alter blanks) Share/enjoy! :)

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.

Caps: Screencap Paradise
Brushes and Textures: quebelly, dearest and Getty Images
Text:
1, 3, 5: Melissa Ferrick - "Drive"
7: George Michael - "Amazing"
9: Alannah Myles - "Love Is"
13: Heather Nova - "Heart and Shoulder"

Icons: Hitchhiker's Guide, Buffy, X-Files

2005-04-14T23:34:25Z

Yay! The apps are done except for handing something in tomorrow. And now I'm suddenly not so busy, much faster than I thought. So except for the grading, I'm finking off for the weekend and playing. :D

In celebration of fun, I made icons. Hee. A Hitchhiker's Guide set, plus some Buffy and X-Files from raiding the picture stash.

13. 17. 27.

Comment/credit/share/enjoy! :))

[EDIT: Whoops, fixed up some of the numbering.]

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14.

15. 16. 17. 18.
19. 20. 21. 22.
23. 24. 25.

26. 27. 28. 29.
30. 31. 32. 33.
34. 35. 36. 37.

Text:
5-14: Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe, and Everything
15,17,19: Sting, "Fields of Gold" (the Eva Cassidy version is so pretty!)
Caps: Screencap Paradise and The X-Files DVD Screen Grab Archive
Brushes: eightyfour__, okayicons, drave, teh_indy and ruuk
Textures: colorfilter, juliathorne13 and Stock X-chng

Icon Maker Appreciation

2005-04-03T22:01:23Z

I think this post is a day late (Thank you luinar for the loverly reminder! :D), but I'll just be sappy and schmoopy for just a sec. :))

I first started mucking about in PhotoShop about a year and a half ago, because I thought it would be fun to try my hand at making my own icons. In that time I've definitely learned a lot about graphics and icon making, from so many other icon makers sharing their wisdom & experience & tips & tricks with rookies like me. I was mostly happy to get to the point where I could make something that Didn't Look Like Complete And Utter Crap. I never imagined I'd be brave enough to try something as big as a wallpaper, or post icons of my own. And I think in a lot of ways I'm still a graphics-rookie, but it's a lot of fun to have Photoshop to try things out with, and learn as I go.

So, to everyone on the friends list who has shared their icons, posted tutorials, used or even commented on any of the icons I've posted here, thank you. Y'all are the wind beneath my wings. Thank you to icon makers for sharing your talents with LJ. You make it a prettier place! *gives you a big ol' sloppy kiss*

(Now back to your regularly scheduled LJ. :))

Icons: Buffy S3/S4

2005-03-31T04:00:33Z

More Buffy icons, hee. This show is the good crack.

Still not sure about a few of these, but mostly just trying out a few different styles. Lots of Buffy/Angel again, also Willow and Buffy/Spike, and Buffy/Riley cause carmen_sandiego poked me. *g*

3. 5. 15.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22.

Caps: Freeze Frame and Screencap Paradise
Brushes & Gradients: teh_indy & crumblingwalls.
Fonts: Aquiline, Arial, Arial Narrow & Georgia.
Text: 1, 15: Tom Waits - "Martha"
7: Romeo & Juliet
9, 11, 13: Sarah McLachlan - "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy"

Icons: Buffy S2/S3

2005-03-22T13:45:12Z

Some Buffy icons I've been poking at over the last few days. :)) (Am halfway through S3, hee.) Buffy/Angel plus Willow/Xander and a few more.

1. 12. 18.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7. 8.
9. 10. 11. 12.
13. 14. 15. 16.
17. 18.

Caps: Freeze Frame
Brushes: gnomicons, teh_indy and blimey_icons
Text: 1. Damien Rice - "Cannonball"
3. Sarah McLachlan - "Full of Grace"
5. Lifehouse - "Hanging By A Moment"
7. Dido - "Here With Me"
12. "I could love you"
13. "See with your heart"

And am now late to get to campus. *grabs tea and scurries*