Today we'll go from:

this to this


Program: Photoshop CS2
Difficulty: Medium, if you're not used to Curves, easy if so.
Steps: 5

- This tutorial is very image-friendly, meaning that it works well with most images. If not with just the base layer, you can duplicate it and set it to screen and adjust it as fit.

( i'm sorry professor, i must not tell lies... )

Examples:


More examples :)

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Music: Harry Potter Music

Can anyone please guide me through making this type of icon with a background? 




Credit to rdequina

Translatable: Yes!
Steps: 20
Difficulty: Difficult
Program: Paint Shop Pro X2
*WARNING: Very image heavy. Not dial up friendly!*
*I have put every step in picture, to give you an idea on how it should look like!

From this: --->

(( give me reason, to prove me wrong, to wash this memory clean )

Program: Photoshop CS3
Translatable: YES! *GASP*
Difficulty: Fairly Simple
Steps: Seven.

( I'll be the freak you can taunt )

Tags: colouring: channel mixer, colouring: curves, program: photoshop, tutorial: colouring
Current Mood: embarrassed
Current Music: Dirty Diana - Michael Jackson

We will be making this:


Translatable: Well, there's one important Exposure layer and if anyone can think of an equivalent to that, then yes, it is translatable. Exposure is only available in CS2 and up.
Program: Photoshop CS4
Difficulty: Medium
Image-heavy: A lot of textures but they're big so they'll be posted as thumbnails

Be warned that this tutorial is long but you can check it out under the cut.
( USA soccer...you suck!! JK :) )

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Program: Photoshop CS4
Translatable: No (selective colouring)
Difficulty: Fairly Simple
Steps: 11
PSD: Yes
Note: Bare with me, this is my first tutorial.

( Beneath the chandelier of stars and atmosphere. )

Other Examples


PSD is located here at xexitlude.
And it would be appreciated if any comments/questions were also made to that post.

Tags: colouring: curves, colouring: saturation, colouring: selective colouring, program: photoshop, tutorial: colouring

And yeah, please don't decide to skip the entry just now . . . ;-)

I made my first animated icon today, after playing some with sidebar animations. Therefore, the whole process of coloring and animating isn't my problem. But, I'm facing the 40k limit for the first time, and the size of my icon is way to big. The original version has 160k, and even after fidling around with optimize options and taking out some frames, I can only get it down to around 100k before it reaches a level of suckage (grainy and/or jolting) that's not worth saving anymore. *headdesk*

Any ideas on what else to try?
Does it matter which file format the original caps have? I capped them as .pngs, would it help if I batch-converted to .jpg before making the animation? What is your favorite option when capping for animations, regarding the frames? I used to set it to capping every 4th frame . . . Too much for animated icons?

Also, I dunno if you'll need to see it, but the icon in question would be ( here )

Thanks in advance!!

can anyone tell me how to replicate an icon similar to this (black and white and grainy with the two bars at the top)?


made by delilah_pro

thanks :)

Tags: colouring: adding colour to b&w images, colouring: black & white

Hello .. i been figuring it out how to have it under 40K for LJ icons.. as you can see on my default icon, I am so happy!!! Now my question is this- How do i paste the animation to the base icon? I looked through the memories and entires and i don't see the answer i am looking for. I thought i saw entries about it and i couldn't find it. Could you help me please? Thanks for your time!!

By the way,  I used Animation shop 3 and PS Elements 5.0.

Happy 4th of July everyone!

I saw this icon on a icon tutorial list but the journal has been purged, so I have recreated it.

Go from this to this

Program: Photoshop CS3 Academic
Difficulty: Advanced
Translatable: Yes
PSD: No. You'll never learn unless you do it yourself!
Steps: 9
( Tutorial Here )

Tags: program: photoshop, tutorial: black & white, tutorial: textures
Current Music: Field Below-Regina Spektor

Sorry! I saw my mistake. When I couldn't fix it I started over. But you guys are speedy!

Program: GIMP 2.4
Difficulty: Easy/Medium. Depends if you know your way around GIMP.
Translateable: Probably not.

All the caps from this tutorial came from The CSS archive @ CSS; a gallery made by rkc_erika, the LotS capping Mistress.


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I recently lost Photoshop on my Mac, but switched it over to my family's old PC.  However, all of my old fonts are on the Mac.  Does anyone know how to switch the fonts from Mac to PC?  (I have them on Mac's fontbook application and I've been switching files in general with a flashdrive.)  I hope this is community-appropriate, as the reason this is a problem is because I had so many nice fonts for icon-making, and I'd think I'm not the only icon-maker who has had this problem.

Tags: resource: fonts

Tags: colouring: curves, tutorial: colouring
Current Mood: artistic

I'm making animations in Photoshop CS3 and I ran into a little problem and would like to know if there's a solution for it anywhere. I mainly want to know how to get high quality animations in PS CS3, and not the quality that I usually get after saving my animations. An example of what I'm talking about is under the cut:

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EDIT: SOLVED, thank you!

Tags: animation: animated gifs, animation: mini movies

Okay, this has been frustrating me for a while, and I can't seem to figure out why Photoshop is doing this. For certain typefaces, despite having the full family, the full family won't show up. So if I want say, Didot italicised, I have to end up using the faux italics, which are not at all like the "true" italics.

How can I get Photoshop to recognize the full family, or am I just SOL? I'm using CS3 on a Mac, if that helps.

Thanks!

Tags: graphic effects: text, program error: photoshop
Current Mood: frustrated