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@ 2007-12-09 12:22:00
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Entry tags:animated snow, textures: iconsize

Icon Textures: animated snow
it's winter again. it's snowing on icons, but look! it's a natural phenomenon. conformity! wherever I look, it's like I know the falling flakes personally. huh!
apparently my attempt last year to get a bit more variety into that was a fight against windmills.

but I'm not a quitter, and so I'm trying something different this time. new snow animations. there's no need for credit, seriously, I'm happy enough when I get to see some different snow for a change ;P you may even repost them, if you like.









I'm pretty sure there are tuts outthere how to use them, because it seems lots of people were able to use the apparently only snow texture evah on this planet.

ETA:
apparently you can't open animated gifs in CS3 anymore (I wouldn't know as I'm still using 7.0 *g*), but according to some tech articles, the psd-files work.
so here they are:
awmp_snow_psd.rar



love,
Donna Quixote

ps: comments are welcome though and don't forget to have fun! :D


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[info]thereal_anabel
2007-12-09 11:55 am UTC (link)
Thank you! I've added your tutorial to my memories too.

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[info]awmp
2007-12-09 12:01 pm UTC (link)
animated snow is really very easy to make, but apparently people are lazy, who knew? *g*
have fun if you try the tutorial! you'll see it's addictive ;)

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[info]aerianya
2007-12-09 07:01 pm UTC (link)
Hey! I resemble that remark!:lol: Thanks for making them.

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[info]thereal_anabel
2007-12-09 08:13 pm UTC (link)
A few years back I was totally addicted to making animated gifs, mostly with hand-drawn (mouse-drawn?) movement. It was so much fun, but very time consuming! I just used to duplicate layers, then change them, pixel by pixel.

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[info]jokergirl
2008-12-24 04:18 pm UTC (link)
I'm lazy! I know how to do it but hey, I would rather not get RSI on christmas day. Thanks and will credit!

;)

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[info]wuzzagoinon
2007-12-09 02:32 pm UTC (link)
Totally adding this to my memories so that I can use them later. =D I love the ones that actually look like flakes!

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[info]rayvin813
2007-12-09 02:53 pm UTC (link)
AAH! Beautiful! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I've been looking for some prettier ones myself! These do the trick QUITE nicely! Snagging all of them!

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[info]sb158
2007-12-09 08:12 pm UTC (link)
Love the Eureka icon, one of my fav shows.

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[info]rayvin813
2007-12-09 09:19 pm UTC (link)
Aww! Thanks!! Eureka is one of my favorites, too! This was one of my first anims. I couldn't resist the scene, either. XD

And your Bones icon...made of win! ;)

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[info]jessieflower
2007-12-09 02:54 pm UTC (link)
Saving, thanks bunches!

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[info]moscow_watcher
2007-12-09 03:01 pm UTC (link)
Hey, I did ine icon recently, using you last-year tut!

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

I saved your new textures and I'm going to experiment with them (and poor BtVS characters :))).

Thank you!!!
*hugs*

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[info]awmp
2007-12-10 08:42 pm UTC (link)
heee, good thing that there can't be enough icons of BtVS characters outthere ;)

*hugs back*

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[info]seleneheart
2007-12-09 03:35 pm UTC (link)
I morphed your tutorial into other things, like leaves and confetti.

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[info]awmp
2007-12-10 08:43 pm UTC (link)
looks good on your icon :)

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[info]meredith44
2007-12-09 03:39 pm UTC (link)
The only time I made a snowy icon (last year? two years ago? I cannot remember), I made the snow myself. However, I figure that it can't hurt to have a couple of these around just in case I don't feel like making my own snow the next time I make a snow icon. Thanks for sharing.

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[info]finchburg
2007-12-09 04:45 pm UTC (link)
These are awesome, I'm totally going to mod my xmas icon with one of these. Thanks for sharing!

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[info]aerianya
2007-12-09 06:32 pm UTC (link)
I love these! Thank You.

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[info]gillo
2007-12-09 07:06 pm UTC (link)
That is so kind of you! I haven't tried any snow icons yet, though I followed your tutorial last year and tried to get my head round it. These are great! Thank you muchly.

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[info]red_sunflower
2007-12-09 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Hee! I think I will use them... a lot.

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[info]rusalkatrix
2007-12-09 07:42 pm UTC (link)
Saving all of them, thank you! I now promise to stop using the same generic falling snow animation in every icon.

:D

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[info]sb158
2007-12-09 08:09 pm UTC (link)
LOL! Well, Donna, I tried, honestly, I did! Except I use Ulead Gif Animator 5, and I got frustrated trying to do the tut. Took me a while to do my wallpaper, and by the time I got done, was in no mood to wrestle with yet another tut! I ended up using "snow" from an image tut I found. But I do like yours, and if I ever do a snow icon, I'll use one of them.
Keep fighting those windmills, though. I love the art that results.

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[info]awmp
2007-12-10 08:45 pm UTC (link)
weee, I love the wallpaper, it's so very cute!
haha and I never stop fighting the windmills, I'm stubborn like that ;)

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[info]sb158
2007-12-11 12:31 am UTC (link)
Thanks, and stubborn can be a good thing, but only if it's called "persistence!" LOL.

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[info]mellie
2007-12-09 08:20 pm UTC (link)
Staring at all 8 in a row is rather mesmerizing. Nice job on them :)

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[info]raths_kitten
2007-12-09 08:52 pm UTC (link)
Heh, I know what you mean. I've seen quite a few icons using the same snow effect these days. But because they were all SPN icons, I assumed they were just made by the same creator. I didn't know there were ready-made textures! This is really nifty, I'll test it out on the Psych icons I plan to make later. Great timing! :) Thank you!

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[info]lessy37
2007-12-09 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Ooooh..thanks for sharing these and I took a peek at your tut! Easier than the way I was making snow *laughs* Now if I can figure out how to use one of these instead of hand making more snow....*laughs*

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[info]moonstone_icons
2007-12-10 12:02 am UTC (link)
Ooo, I like these. I could never get mine quite right. Thanks for sharing these though.

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[info]serenography
2007-12-10 02:21 am UTC (link)
These are great. I always mean to get around to doing a snow/rainfall icon, but never have. I'll just use yours and put it off another year. :) Thanks!

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[info]fantasia0829
2007-12-10 07:39 am UTC (link)
Grabbing the snowflakes ones! Thanx! I'm too lazy to make my own. XD

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[info]colour_me_troll
2007-12-10 09:15 am UTC (link)
Snagging & love

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[info]zenqicrimson
2007-12-10 09:30 am UTC (link)
Saved them all and added your tutorial to my memories. Thank you for sharing! :)

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[info]nnaylime
2007-12-12 12:08 am UTC (link)
Okay, perhaps I'm an idiot - because I'm assuming using this would be as self evident as dragging the frames one by one onto a base - but in opening them in Photoshop CS3 (which doesn't have animation studio like PS CS2), I'm told that I will only ever be able to see one frame. Hints?

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[info]awmp
2007-12-12 07:39 am UTC (link)
Open them in ImageReady instead, that way you'll get each frame as a new layer :)

uhm wait, I've just read that there's no ImageReady anymore in the CS3 version??? I know why I'm still using my 7.0...

sorry, as I don't have this version I have no clue, but I'm going to look into it. Do you have Adobe's Fireworks?

Edited at 2007-12-12 07:56 am UTC

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[info]awmp
2007-12-12 08:11 am UTC (link)
apparently it's a knwon issue with CS3.
but the psd-files will work (says the intarweb), so I've included them in the original post :)

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[info]nnaylime
2007-12-12 03:20 pm UTC (link)
Thank you SOOOO much. I'm gonna play around with these now. I wound up just making my own on based on the other tutorial, but I like the actual little snowflakes (which I'm sure exist on a brush somewhere . . . but anyway). :-D

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[info]mscreations
2007-12-20 04:18 pm UTC (link)
how do you add these to icons. to make it animate? i tried copy and paste but it's not working.

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[info]teenbulma
2007-12-21 03:09 pm UTC (link)
Now THIS is handy! I was sick of making little dots on layer after layer to get the snowfall effect. o_o Thanks a ton!

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[info]babygirl14x
2007-12-24 01:03 am UTC (link)
Great Job! This is so helpful!
Thanks a lot!

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[info]hellokimberly
2007-12-26 09:32 pm UTC (link)
I'm being lazy and stealing your snow. *lol*

Thank you. =)

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[info]seisupiakaisa
2008-04-28 11:06 pm UTC (link)
Thank you for sharing :D

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[info]peyton_oxxo
2008-11-25 12:46 pm UTC (link)
thank u... i really need it :D

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[info]sky_queen3
2008-12-04 11:50 am UTC (link)
Ooo, I may use these one day for Christmas icon. :D

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[info]beckyo
2008-12-04 11:16 pm UTC (link)
These are great! I made my own snow icon from scratch once, but these days I just don't have the time and patience.

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[info]swifi
2008-12-05 12:33 am UTC (link)
:DD wahh !! thanks alot

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[info]crystalra1ndr0p
2008-12-05 01:28 am UTC (link)
Thank you so much! Saved and will credit you in my resources

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[info]starshines
2008-12-07 07:58 am UTC (link)
Can't wait to try!!! :D

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[info]serena_vox
2008-12-11 04:16 am UTC (link)
Lovely snow textures! Just what I was looking for this year when I lost the ones I used to use last year. Thanks so much. :)

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[info]skata_zmej
2008-12-11 04:10 pm UTC (link)
oh, i've been looking for them for so long! thanks for sharing =)

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[info]bubblytears
2008-12-24 03:14 pm UTC (link)
thank you. :D

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