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54 Contest icons:)

2008-07-16T11:57:40Z

Well, most of these are just my latest contest icons, some are images from contests I didn't enter:P
I haven't got much inspiration to make whole icon batches, textures are more interesing then^^

[header] - America's Next Top Model
[01-10] - Scarlett Johansson
[11-14] - Jennifer Aniston
[15-29] - Emilie De Ravin
[30-50] - Random Actresses / Cats / 1 Sawyer
[51-54] - Charlize Theron

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Rules:
♥ Please leave a comment (comments are love!)
♥ Please credit
♥ No hotlinking
♥ Textless icons are not bases (no editing)

Textures: Handpainted

2008-07-14T21:35:09Z

Well, I was kinda bored today, so I decided to paint;) I scanned the paintings into my computer and my photoshop, played around a bit, and got these^^
This is my.. 25th batch of textures!:D

(Click the image for .zip download at my deviantart)

Rules:
♥ Please leave a comment (comments are love!)
♥ Please credit
♥ No editing or claiming as your own
♥ Feel free to friend me if you like my work:)
♥ Be creative and enjoy!:D

Just some pimping;)

2008-07-10T09:34:33Z

Round 3 Sign-ups @ actresslims is open!:D

Join ActressLIMS.

Tutorial #3

2008-07-08T17:28:12Z

This time, I am going to show you how to make textures like the ones I made in my previous texture post.
Some examples:

Made in Photoshop CS
Very translatable, and easy!:)

1. Start off with a blank canvas, size doesn't really matter, but say around 400-600px.
    Mine is 351x500px (for whatever reason XP ).

2. Find yourself some stock images, about 8-10 of them.
    Try to pick images with strong colors, and at least a couple which's red and/or yellow.
    The idea here is just to make a pretty and colorful background for the texture.
    I chose these ones:

3. So, take your first chosen picture, resize and/or crop it to whatever size your starting canvas is.
    Go to Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur, set the radius to about 30px, and click OK.
    (You can also use Motion Blur or Radial Blur to make some variations in the picture if you want).


4. Duplicate the blurred image, and set the layer to Screen.


5. Duplicate the blurred image again, and set it to Color Burn.
    You have now finished the first picture.



6. Now, do excactly the same to the other stock images you've chosen.
    Only instead of doing the whole "Filter-> Blur-> Gaussian Blur" to all of them, you can just click Ctrl+F to repeat the last used filter.
    (It's a really nice way to get more effecient in photoshop to learn all the short cuts!)
    Here are the pictures so far:

7. So, basically what I do now, is just paste all the images into the starting canvas,
   and put the settings to either Lighten or Screen to make a nice background.
   I pasted the first picture into our starting canvas.
   Then I pasted the next picture on top, put the setting to Lighten, and moved it a little.
   If you get some rough edges, just soften them up using a big, soft eraser.


8. Then I pasted the next picture on top, put the setting to Screen, and moved that a little too:


9. Then I pasted the next picture on top, put the setting to Screen, rotated it and moved it:


9. Then I pasted the next picture on top, put the setting to Lighten, rotated it and moved it:


12. Then I pasted the next picture on top, put the setting to Screen, rotated and moved it:


13. I pasted the next picture on top, but now I put the setting to Soft Light to enchance the colors a bit:


14. Then I pasted the last picture on top, put the setting to Lighten, rotated and moved it.
      Now the hardest part is done!


15. Now, find yourself some nice stock images of flowers or grass or something.
      All the puctures I used in my texture set, are located here in this superb flickr gallery:)

16. I used this and this image first.
      I pasted them both on my colorful background, moved them a little and sat them to lighten:


17. Well, that was basically it folks;D
      Just use different flower stocks set to lighten and move them around, and crop them to your liking!:D
      As always, I'd love to see your results, and go ahead and ask if I made anything unclear! ;)

Textures: REQUESTED HANDWRITTEN + "lightened flowers"

2008-07-07T12:47:45Z

Well, this is also my 23rd and 24th batch of textures:D
Here are the finished requested handwritten textures for silver881, iheartnickcath, master_kogane, goddess_loki, pastelpiggy, zed_pm, rayne_comms and tilly_07:D
They are shareable of course though!:)
I hope this is what you all had in mind, and that I didn't forget anything!
I have also made some flower texture thingies, I love to experiment^^

(Click the images for .zip downloads at my deviantart)

~~Do you want me to make a tutorial for the "lightened flowers" textures Y/N?~~
HERE IT IS XP

Rules:
♥ Please leave a comment (comments are love!)
♥ Please credit
♥ No editing or claiming as your own
♥ Feel free to friend me if you like my work:)
♥ Be creative and enjoy!:D

Textures: gradients, "painted", various, handwritten+scribble, request handwritten texture

2008-06-14T22:10:17Z

These are some textures I have made over the past couple of weeks. They're my 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd batch of textures + big versions of the 22nd batch:P
You can also request handwritten textures!
As always, I hope these will be useful!:)

(Click the images for .zip downloads at my deviantart)

- Stock images from the above set are from sxc.hu, and some are scanned by me.

- The text from the handwritten textures is different love poems and the lyrics to Coldplay's song "Viva La Vida".
- You can also snag the big textures one by one since the file is rather large (3,8mb) :
#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21,

Do you want to request a handwritten texture?
Just fill in the form below, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
I have summer holiday now, so it won't take long:P

Rules:
♥ Please leave a comment (comments are love!)
♥ Please credit
♥ No editing or claiming as your own
♥ Feel free to friend me if you like my work:)
♥ Be creative and enjoy!:

Tutorial #2 :)

2008-05-29T16:28:19Z

From to

Made in Photoshop 7.0
Probably not translatable because of Selective Color and Curves.

1. Prepare your base: crop, resize, sharpen etc.

2. Duplicate your base.
    Set to Screen 25%, higher if you have a darker base.

3. Layer-> New Adjustment Layer-> Curves.
    Click OK.
    RGB:
    1st point: 47/42
    2nd point: 106/110
    3rd point: 160/170
    Red:
    1st point: 35/41
    2nd point: 85/93
    3rd point: 157/158
    Green:
    1st point: 32/33
    2nd point: 110/115
    3rd point: 182/187
    Drag your top right corner point to: 234/255
    Blue:
    1st point: 73/82
    2nd point: 171/176
    Click OK.

4. Layer-> New Adjustment Layer-> Curves.
    Click OK.
    RGB:
    1st point: 98/86
    2nd point: 152/134
    Red:
    1st point: 127/132
    Blue:
    1st point: 110/133
    Click OK.

5. Layer-> New Fill layer-> Solid Color.
    Set to Color Burn 80%.
    Click OK.
    Choose color #F8D4BD.
    Click OK.

6. Select-> All, or click Ctrl+A.
    Edit-> Copy Merged, or click Shift+Ctrl+C
    Edit-> Paste, or click Ctrl+V
    Set to Soft Light 50%.
    Drag this layer beneath the fill layer.

    7. Layer-> New Adjustment Layer-> Selective Color.
    Set to Soft Light 25%.
    Click OK.
    Reds: -22/-10/+12/+10
    Yellows: +2/0/+100/-20
    Neutrals: +11/+5/-10/-1
    Drag this layer beneath the fill layer.

8. Select-> All, or click Ctrl+A.
    Edit-> Copy Merged, or click Shift+Ctrl+C
    Edit-> Paste, or click Ctrl+V
    Set to Soft Light 30%.

9. Layer-> New Adjustment Layer-> Curves.
    Click OK.
    RGB:
    1st point: 50/54
    2nd point: 88/99
    3rd point: 155/156
    Green:
    1st point: 99/107
    Blue:
    1st point: 82/88
    2nd point: 159/170
    Click OK.

10.Layer-> New Fill layer-> Solid Color.
   Set to Exclusion 100%.
   Click OK.
   Choose color #240505.
   Click OK.
   Finished! :)

Other examples:

On most of the examples, I decided to not put in the last curves layer.
Remember, no image looks the same, so you probably need to change opacities on some layers.
I'd love to see your results^^

Download the .PSD here:)

Textures: a lot..!

2008-04-13T17:08:35Z

These are some textures I have made over the past couple of weeks. They're my 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th batch of textures:P
As always, I hope these will be useful!:)

(Click the images for .zip downloads at my deviantart)

Rules:
♥ Please leave a comment (comments are love!)
♥ Please credit
♥ No editing or claiming as your own
♥ Feel free to friend me if you like my work:)
♥ Be creative and enjoy!:D

Icons: 55 Actresses/Lost/Misc

2008-03-25T19:15:18Z

Blaah, I have to go to school again tomorrow:'( But it has been a good and long Easter Holiday, and we even got snow!:D

It's been too long since I posted icons, but here are some, and I hope you like them!:)
Most of them are icontest or lims entries..

By the way, I've got some more awards here (the bottom 6) :D *YAY*

[01-14] - Evangeline Lilly
[15-24] - Emilie De Ravin (+ table header)
[25-30] - Scarlett Johansson
[31-37] - Marion Cotillard
[38-50] - Lost/ Lost Cast/ Animals
[51-55] - Jessica Alba

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Rules:
♥ Please leave a comment (comments are love!)
♥ Please credit
♥ No hotlinking
♥ Textless icons are not bases (no editing)

My first tutorial! :)

2008-03-15T23:41:08Z

From to

Made in Photoshop 7.0
Probably not translatable because of Channel Mixer and Curves.

1. Prepare your base: crop, resize, sharpen etc.

2. Layer-> New Fill layer-> Solid Color.
   Set to Linear Burn 20%.
   Click OK.
   Choose color #BEBEBE.
   Click OK.

3. Layer-> New Adjustment Layer-> Channel Mixer.
   Click OK.
   Red: +85/0/0/0
   Blue: 0/0/+115/0
   Click OK.

4. Duplicate your base.
   Drag to top and set to Soft Light 100%.

5. Duplicate your base.
   Drag to top and set to Screen 30%

6. Duplicate your base.
   Drag to top and set to Soft Light 100%.

7. Layer-> New Adjustment Layer-> Curves.
   Click OK.
   RGB:
   1st point: 88/79
   2nd point: 169/165
   Green:
   1st point: 67/62
   2nd point: 114/102
   3rd point: 169/162
   Blue:
   1st point: 56/46
   2nd point: 118/114
   3rd point: 162/169
   Click OK.

8. Layer-> New Fill layer-> Solid Color
   Set to Exclusion 100%.
   Click OK.
   Choose color #270300.
   Click OK.

9. If you want more contrast:
   Duplicate your base.
   Drag to top and set to Soft Light 50%.
   Finished:)

Other examples:

Remember, no image looks the same, so you probably need to change opacities on some layers.
I'd love to see your results^^

Download the .PSD here:)

Textures: 35 100x100 cloudy

2008-03-15T15:32:41Z

I made some cloudy textures today, and thought I'd share:)This is my 13th batch, feel free to browse through earlier batches!:P
I hope they'll be useful.♥

(Click the images for .zip downloads at my deviantart)

Rules:
♥ Please leave a comment (comments are love!)
♥ Please credit
♥ No editing or claiming as your own
♥ Be creative and enjoy!:D

Textures: 40 100x100 scrapbook + birds, 35 100x100 flowers

2008-03-09T16:39:41Z

Yup, I have made more textures:)
Here comes my 10th, 11th and 12th batch of textures!:D
I hope they are useful to some.!

The scrapbook textures are made from scrapbook-paper textures.
The bird textures are made from the scrapbook ones, and are inspired by these ones by runningawayy:)
The flower textures are a bit inspired by these butterfly ones by vol4itca:)

(Click the images for .zip downloads at my deviantart)

Rules:
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♥ No editing or claiming as your own

Tutorial List!

2008-02-24T14:00:37Z

I have made none of these tutorials myself
(except the two last ones)

They are all just here for my and your inspiration, and easy access:)
Thanks a lot to all the wonderful artists who made all of these tuts! You are all so talented!

Stock tutorial list
Texture tutorial list
Texture making tutorial
Huge tutorial list

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