Graphics and resources by shadedcolor

50 (Challenge) Icons Jan - July

2014-07-15T20:10:33Z

Finally! Let me fill the gap between the last and second last entry! 50 not-as-crazy-as-the-last-icon-batch icons, mostly from challenges, I made from January to July.
Thanks a lot to the challenge communities capchallenge, comics_ic, elitesimplicity, ouat_elite, the7days and thevampdiaelite! I would have made about 50 icons less this year if it hadn't been for them. ;)

01-05
06-10
11-15
16-20
21-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-45
46-50

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20 icons - The Fall (movie, 2006)

2014-06-20T18:45:13Z

Adventures in Wonderland was this rounds theme over at 20inspirations (Ch 30)! It was all about exploring the unexpected, experimenting and making 'unusual' icons, without creating a post which is most likely to win the I-don't-want-to-look-at-this-post-one-year-from-now-award.

The 20 icons are arranged in order of date of creation (I tried to create 1 to max 3 icons a day). You might notice that it gets weirder with the 12th icon. That was around the time others posted their entries and I noticed mine might not be.. experimental enough? But, most of them are pretty far away from what I normally do. I normally stop after the coloring and the first texture. ;) But this time I gave various textures, brushes and filters a try.

Apart from the inspiration post I got my inspiration from further saved textures and all the unexplored photoshop filters! Would've never found my way to the glowing edges and mosaic tiles filter if it hadn't been for this 20insp round! ;)

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06 - 10
11 - 15
16 - 20

Inspired by

01 this icon by zaryaaa
02 The Scream by Edvard Munch
03 the mosaic tiles filter!
04 this texture by halcyongillan
05 the word 'disorganised'
06 love the effect when the subject blends into the background
07 this graphic by loislanes
08 the word 'sharp'
09 There's no one to blame for this one. But hey, it's glowing!
10 general theme

11 general theme
12 And again, no one to blame- but along with 09 the first gif I made in 1,5 years!
13 this icon by schryosel
14 this icon by tinebrella
15 this icon by juanxyo
16 the word 'inverted'
17 general theme
18 this icon by iamalreadyinuse
19 this texture by violateraindrop and the words 'sharp', 'disguise', also surrealism
20 surrealism!

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Icon (Progression) 2013

2013-12-31T13:15:16Z

An icon progression post! Even though I'm afraid there's not much of -uhm... progression.
But I love creating and looking at these kinds of posts, so here we go - my icon regre.. progression post 2013!

I only made 85 (+/- 5) icons. I actually could've posted them all in this one post. ;) But I went for a traditional progression post layout instead.

I was and am still very much focusing on coloring, cropping and working with negative space. Text and complex compositions are still exceptions. 2014 might be the year for that. ;)

JANUARY

I made some icons for challenges and especially focused on BatB and Castle. And If you look closely, I obviously found out about the 'Topaz Labs' tool. ;)

LINK

Icons made for movie_stillness (I miss this community!), 30 icons

FEBRUARY

Same as January. For 'moviefilmstills', I made the Captain America icon which is still one of my favorites. By my standards, a rather complex icon. In this case I draw my inspiration from one of the example icons, the fourth one. - It's all about inspiration!

LINK

Icons made for moviefilmstills, 30 icons

MARCH

I obviously went to see Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (and not just once). Just wanted to pay tribute and created this icon. And tried my hand at blending! -- April... zzzZZZzzzz

MAY

After having such an icon-wise successful April I decided to apply at '20inspirations'; got accepted and made 20 icons! With the themes provided I tried to create and apply a different style (coloring, cropping, composition) for each icon. Worked out fifty-fifty.

LINK

Icons made for 20inspirations, 20 icons - Kate Beckett (Castle)

JUNE

I was obviously picking up pace! Another 20 icons! Another round over at '20inspirations'. The pass-it-on-challenge was quite- challenging. But I liked it a lot and it reconfirmed that Lost is one of the most beautiful shows 'to color'. So I mainly concentrated on the cropping and coloring.

LINK

Icons made for 20inspirations, 20 icons - Kate Austen (Lost)

JULY

With the left icon it was one of these days where you want to throw down everything because half way through all you see in PS is this odd-looking 100x100px-sth. - But, follow through! Textures and coloring and shapes make the impossible possible!

SEPTEMBER

August... zzzZZZzzzz -- In September, I made my current userpic and one of my favorite icons. I like the painted, pencil-y look of it. (Also, the hour of birth for the 'drop-shaped' icons.)

OCTOBER

I saw a post about paintings created by Ivan Aivazovsky (so beautiful!). So I clearly had to icon somebody with a ship! Captain Hook was the obvious choice.

LINK

Icons made for ouat_elite

NOVEMBER

Thanks to ouat_elite, I at least managed to create one icon in November. Ch 54: Close Crop. Not my speciality, especially since I always walk the thin line between too sharp/too blurry.

DECEMBER

Four icons! But only thanks to the new comm comics_ic (finally!) and me discovering TVD.

As I said, I'm still very focused on cropping and coloring. Slowly but surely I try to get more into complex compositions and working with text.
So, here's to a successful year 2014, with lots of creativity and motivation, and lots of icon community challenges!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone!

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20 icons - Kate Austen (Lost)

2013-06-16T17:35:22Z

I'm obviously picking up pace! Thanks to all the icon challenges out there. In this case, special thanks to 20inspirations.
This round's challenge was Pass It On*. - My "strategy": I started making about 12 icons with some of my favorite caps. And how do you go from there? You stare at the icons in hopes of finding a matching theme. Which works in half of the cases. And then, you're busy trying to make 8 icons which fill in the gaps. Not sure that's the best way to go. ;)

water → water/bw → bw/close crop → close crop/sad → sad/green
01 - 05
green/text → text/purple → purple/neg. space → neg. space/plus others → plus others/no face
06 - 10
no face/blue → blue/profile → profile/hair → hair/scared → scared/bruised
11 - 15
bruised/looking down → looking down/smile → smile/making out → making out/eyes closed → eyes closed
16 - 20

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20 icons - Kate Beckett (Castle)

2013-05-14T19:42:46Z

New icons! It's been a while. And the best way of making new icons is.. pressure. And this is where 20inspirations comes into play! ;)
Lots of inspiration, lots of fun, lots of icons... well, 20!

blocking         stock         pastel      down the rabbit hole minimalism
01 - 05
   vibrant            border         faceless         retro         chiaroscuro
06 - 10
                         ← obscure crops →
11 - 15
                        ← artist's choice →
16 - 20

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30 icons

2013-02-17T16:00:22Z

New icons! And it didn't take me 6 months, this time. Lots of icons for 'Beauty and the Beast' (check the show out, everyone!). And some challenge icons.

TV (Beauty and the Beast)
01 - 05
06- 10
11 - 15
16 - 20
Movie (A Dangerous Method, Brave, Skyfall, Snow White and the Huntsman, Django Unchained), TV (Once Upon A Time, Castle)
21 - 25
26 - 30

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30 icons; 2 large graphics

2012-11-11T16:05:29Z

An entry every six months - also means I'm posting regularly, doesn't it. ;) Thank you guys for sticking around!
I brought some (challenge) icons and two large graphics I made in the last couple of months.

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06 - 10
11 - 15
16 - 20
21 - 25
26 - 30

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*(they are also on tumblr - if you want to reblog them, just click the number)

31 - 32

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very few icons; large graphics

2012-05-13T16:13:09Z

My last entry is from October 2011! Happy New Year, then, everyone. :D To all the watchers who stuck around and knew I'd return one day. :D
I'm just bringing very few icons and some Castle episode posters.

01 - 05
06 - 10

*(click to enlarge)
*(they are all on tumblr - if you want to reblog them, just click the number)

11 - 12 - 13
14 - 15

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Tutorial 10 (Game of Thrones)

2011-10-26T09:45:11Z

Program: Photoshop CS3
Difficulty: Medium
Translatable: No
PSD Included: No

	0. Crop and resize your picture. I cropped the picture and resized it to 100x100.
	1. Sharpen your picture (Filter - Sharpen - Smart Sharpen) The degree of sharpening depends on your picture. (Don't overdo it.)
	2. Create a new Brightness/Contrast Layer (Layers - New Adjustment - Brightness/Contrast) Brightness: + 15 And again, the level of brightness depends on your picture. The darker the picture, the more brightness you will need.
	3. Create a new Gradient (Layers - New Fill Layer - Gradient) - Set it to Overlay. Gradient: Black,white - Linear - 90° Since some parts turned out a little too bright (e.g. the face), I added a mask and erased those parts of the gradient layer.
	4. Create a new Color Balance Layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Color Balance) Midtones: 10 \| 0 \| -20 Shadows: 15 \| -15 \| 5 Highlights: 5 \| 0 \| 0 Adding the color balance layer especially helps to emphasize the (red) background and the facial color.
	5. Create a new Selective Color Layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Selective Color) Red: - 70 \| 0 \| - 50 \| 15 Yellow: 45 \| 0 \| 15 \| 50 White: 0 \| 0 \| 0 \| 30 Grey: - 20 \| 0 \| 20 \| 15 Adjusting the 'reds' will help to achieve the red-violet-ish background.
	6. Add another light texture and set the blending mode to Lighten. I chose a texture from terempaty. I played around with different light textures and ended up with this one, for a nice 'light effect' in the background. Duplicate/erase parts of the texture, if needed.
	7. Add another light texture and set the blending mode to Screen - Fill: 20 % As with the other texture, it's up to you and optional to add another texture. I added this texture of mine to create another 'subdued' light effect at the bottom of the picture.

And you're done! Remember, depending on your picture, you have to play around with the settings. For the color balance and selective color layer it might help to lower the opacity. Enjoy! :)

Challenge icons; large graphics

2011-10-11T12:52:27Z

It's been over half a year! Thanks to everyone who's still sticking around, and to the new watchers :) I bring some icons I made for challenges over at ic0nfest, castle_icontest and stanakatic20n20. And some tumblr graphics I made over the past few months. Enjoy!

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06 - 10
11 - 15
16 - 20
21 - 23
stanakatic20n20 Round #1 (full) / #7 (full)

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*(they are all on tumblr - if you want to reblog them, just click the number)

24 - 25 -26
27 - 28 - 29

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Textures 032 Motion

2011-04-16T22:05:25Z

The promised textures- also there's going to be a new round over at ic0nfest starting today/tomorrow. Make sure to check it out [F.A.Q.]!

Textures 032 | 3 Files | 900x655 | 1.39 MB
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Sign of life = Castle graphics

2011-04-16T18:20:19Z

Exactly 4 weeks since my last post! Ugh, such a long time. I'm going to post new large textures, later today. In the meantime I bring some Castle icons and related tumblr graphics. Yep, I jumped on the tumblr bandwagon. Right now, I only post Castle graphics, but anyways, feel free to add me.
shadedcolor

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06 - 10

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*(they are all on tumblr - if you want to reblog them, just click the number)

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14 - 15 - 16
17 - 18
19 - 20 - 21

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Profile Code: Imagine A World (7)

2011-03-19T19:11:21Z

The newest profile code is a cleaned version of unpresented's 'new' profile (code)! :)

imagine a world
profile code, no. 7

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14 Ic0nfest icons + Castle graphics

2011-02-10T22:30:44Z

New icons! Since ic0nfest is now over, I thought I share all the icons I made. 14 icons in total - within 2 1/2 weeks, not very much, but way more than what I would've done without ic0nfest. :D I also bring some Castle graphics (ep 3.13 and 3.14) I made the last couple of hours/days. - Enjoy!

14 Ic0nfest icons (Fantastic Mr. Fox, Casino Royale, Fringe, The IT Crowd, Castle, Kris Allen, Battlestar Galactica, My Princess, The Chronicles of Narnia, Nikita, Two Weeks Notice, Care Bears, Monsters, Inc.)

01 - 05
06 - 10
11 - 14

Castle gifpics aka gifspams aka idk-what-to-call-it :D

			15 - 17
Full size	Full size	Full size

Castle (episode 3.13 / 3.14)

18 - 22

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Textures 031 Dojo

2011-02-03T23:10:51Z

100+ watchers!! Thank you, everyone! ♥Also, ic0nfest is up and running! There's still one week left to request icons by making prompts or filling prompts by making the icons, or both. Fun times!
I for now bring new large textures. All of them photographies I took with my not-so-great camera. ;) Enjoy!

Textures 031 | 4 Files | 900x563 | 1.86 MB
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The Colors of Beckett (Picspam)

2011-01-28T21:00:33Z

Pic!spam! A total of 176 pictures, a couple of hours and lots of fun later, the picspam is done! I planned on doing this for a while now, and finally got around finishing it today.
So may I present to you, 'The Colors of Beckett'. If you're not familiar with the name and the character, start watching CASTLE, like now (the show airs on Monday nights at 10 pm on ABC)! :)

All screencaps are from Stana-Katic.com.

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Please do not repost this, without my permission. Thank you! :)

Bring on the clothing discussion! :D
One of my all time favorite is probably the blue blouse she wore in ep. 3.02, 3.09 and in one of the promotional shoots. ♥

Textures 030 Beat

2011-01-12T22:20:54Z

I finished this texture pack a while ago and finally got around to post it. It's all "pictures of pictures" I found while going through my old drawing portfolio from back in school! Hope you enjoy!

Textures 030 | 25 Files | 100x100 | 329 KB
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Profile Code: What Were All Those Dreams We Shared (6)

2011-01-08T17:00:22Z

what were all those dreams we shared
profile code, no. 6

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Textures 029 Fuzzy

2011-01-05T17:05:32Z

Happy New Year, everyone! May all your wishes for 2011 come true. ♥ The first post of 2011 is - new textures. Dark large sized textures which, admittedly, do not look too spectacular, but help to achieve this dusty, grungy look. ;) Have fun with them!

Textures 029 | 3 Files | 1280x800 | 1.45 MB
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Profile Code: Walk A Lonely Road (5)

2010-12-30T12:45:42Z

walk a lonely road
profile code, no. 5 - icon sidebar (blue)

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Profile Codes 01 - 04

Icon batch (29 Icons) / Textures 028 Fall

2010-12-24T21:25:08Z

Happy holidays, everyone!! ♥ - It's been a long time since I posted icons! Today's icon batch includes some older icons which I never posted, icons I made for a battle challenge (you can check out all submitted icons over here) and a couple new ones. Besides that, I also made new textures. Enjoy!

TV (Chuck, Castle, Firefly, Fringe, LOST, House, HIMYM, The Mentalist)

01 - 05

06 - 10

11 - 15

Movies (The Lovely Bones, Sucker Punch, X-Files, Nim's Island, Harry Potter)

16 - 20

21 - 23

Misc. (Jared Leto, Stock, Dumbo, Teletubbies, Lion King)

24 - 26

27 - 29

Please do not claim the icons as yours.
Comments and credit are very appreciated. :)

Textures 028 | 20 Files | 100x100 | 266 KB
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Vidlet: On Call (Castle/Beckett)

2010-12-18T19:45:24Z

I wanted to do this for a long time now, and finally had some time to make it. I planned on doing a vid about 'Castle' but couldn't find the right song. So, the search began and yesterday I found 'On Call'. Fall in love with the song immediately ♥, and made this video today. Enjoy!

Title: On Call (Castle/Beckett)
Author: shadedcolor
Duration: 1:16
Fandom: Castle
Song: 'On Call' by Kings Of Leon
Summary: About Castle and Beckett saving each others lives.
A/N: After such a short summary there's an even shorter A/N. :D Fall in love with the show, fall in love with the song, saw the connection and made this video. Enjoy!

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Textures 026 Frankfurt Lights | 027 Crayon

2010-12-03T18:45:53Z

Today I offer the results of my photo taking and drawing skills. ;) The light textures are made from photos I took in Frankfurt. Well, the pictures didn't turn out as I intended, - just a whole bunch of lights. And now, there I was thinking they'd make nice light textures.
And texture set 27 is all me and my colored crayons. - You can also easily change the color of the crayon strokes (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation). Enjoy!

Textures 026 | 15 Files | 100x100 | 235 KB
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Textures 027 | 15 Files | 100x100 | 600x185 | 246 KB
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Textures 025 Crossword

2010-12-02T20:00:27Z

The community now has its own little profile, with lots of things to click on. ^^
Texture set number 25, and the first one in the new community! I grabbed my camera, flicked through some puzzle magazines and took some photos. Now, this is the result of it. :D
Hope you enjoy, and if you find any use for them, I'd love to see your results!

Textures 025 | 23 Files | 100x100 | 266 KB
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Textures 001 - 024

Tutorial 08 (Merlin) | 09 (Inception)

2010-11-28T20:40:12Z

Opening goodies, part 2. I made two tutorials, a new one and a not-so-new one. The 'Merlin' one is almost a year old. Loved using the coloring back then, and well, still think it's quite useful and versatile.
If there are any questions, feel free to ask, and enjoy!

Program: Photoshop CS3
Difficulty: Medium
Translatable: Yes
PSD Included: Yes

	0. Crop and resize your picture. I got my picture from disparue.org, cropped it and resized it to 100x100.
	1. Duplicate your base and set the copy to Screen, fill at 40%. As always, play around with the fill and opacity. It depends on your picture; the darker the picture the higher the fill/opacity.
	2. Create a Color Fill Layer: # eaf681 – Set it to Color Burn – Fill: 75 % This sets the basic tone of the picture. I wanted a yellowish/brownish tone, so I decided on a pale yellow color fill.
	3. Create a new Curves Layer (Layers – New Adjustment Layer – Curves) Blue: Input: 60, Output: 71 Parts of the picture (esp. walls) turned out a little bit too yellow, so I added a Curves Layer. To reach a similar effect, you could also use Levels (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Levels), eg. Blue: 0 \| 1,20 \| 255.
	4. Create a new Color Balance Layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Color Balance) Shadows: 0 \| 0 \| +25 This will increase the contrast and emphasize the dark parts of the picture.
	5. Create a new Channel Mixer Layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Channel Mixer) Red: 100 \| 0 \| -15 I wanted are more vivid sky, so I only played around with the 'blue'. Play around with the settings so that it fits your picture.
	6. Add a greyish/light texture and set the blending mode to Overlay – Fill: 55 % I personally wanted to spiff up the sky, but this (and the next) step is totally up to you.
	7. Add another light texture and set the blending mode to Screen - Fill: 40 %. And you're done!
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	0. Crop and resize your picture. I got my picture from homeofthenutty.com, cropped it and resized it to 100x100.
	1. Duplicate your base twice and set both copies to Screen. As always, play around with the fill and opacity, it depends on your picture.
	2. Duplicate your base again and drag it up to the top. Desaturate the picture (press Ctrl+U, Saturation: -100) and set it to Screen - Fill: 70 % This will desaturate and light up your picture.
	3. Create a new Levels layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Levels) RGB: 35 \| 0,89 \| 235 Red: 25 \| 1,00 \| 255 Blue: 20 \| 1,00 \| 225 The most important step in terms of adding contrast and emphasizing the dark parts of the picture.
	4. Create a new Color Balance Layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Color Balance) Midtones: 20 \| 0 \| -15 Shadows: 10 \| 0 \| -25 Highlights: -10 \| 0 \| 20 This will (after desaturating the picture in step 2) mainly re-emphasize the reddish parts of the picture.
	5. Create a Color Fill Layer: # 261b19 – Set it to Exclusion – Fill: 75 % The black-brown color fill will set up the aimed brownish coloring.
	6. Create a new Channel Mixer Layer (Layers - New Adjustment Layer - Channel Mixer) Blue: -10 \| 0 \| 100 Similar to step 5, this sets up the aimed coloring. The Channel Mixer Layer turns the pale (skin) tone into a brownish one.
	7. Now, duplicate your base again and drag it up to the top. Set the copy to Color Burn – Fill: 15 % A quite effective step to add lots of contrast to your picture and emphasize the dark parts of the picture.
	8. Add a gradient texture. Set the blending mode to Soft Light. It's up to you whether or not to add a gradient texture. It just adds another nice contrast to the picture. Et voilà, done!
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All textures by me.
As always, I'd love to see your results once you've struggled through the tutorial. :)

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