Ask the Maker 2017 with NEW ADDITION!

[aida_rose]

July 1st means it's time for round 9 of Ask the Maker here at icon_talk!

Here you'll get the chance to ask icon makers who sign up questions about their icons and other graphics. You can ask for tutorials, guides/"How to", or ask any other questions related their work so these makers can create a Q&A post with the answers to all the questions they get. As

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QUESTIONS?

[aida_rose]

Do you have any questions or comments for me? Post them here!

RE: QUESTIONS?

[itsanonyx]

Is this okay to ask for some tutorials how to use color palettes in the ASK EVERYONE-thread?

RE: QUESTIONS?

[aida_rose]

Yes, of course :)

RE: QUESTIONS?

[itsanonyx]

Thank you. :o)

ASK EVERYONE!

[aida_rose]

Ask everyone general questions about iconmaking. Or you're wondering about a certain technique and the makers of the icons you have as examples are no longer on LJ, you can post those icons and ask for tips on how to achieve it (DO NOT ask for a complete recreation like the same image, crop). You can ask for texture, font, text recommendation and icon inspiration (credit the makers) and anything else you can think of. Everyone who wants to, can ask and answer and contribute to the conversations in this thread.

You can link to already made tutorials, you can write tutorials (again, do not completely recreate other peoples icons) and you can write your tips and tricks out in the comments, or just carry out conversations sharing your opinions, techniques and advice about all things icon making.

RE: ASK EVERYONE!

[ella_rose88]

I'd like some tutorials on making complex icons (ones that incorporate textures, text etc), and blending multiple images into the one icon.

RE: ASK EVERYONE!

[violateraindrop]

jsfunction did a great tutorial using textures here.

Here is one that uses two images from naive_astronaut

RE: ASK EVERYONE!

[sietepecados]

Amazing tutorial on complex icons by petite_tomate
Another awesome tutorial on complex icons by rebel
Tutorial on blending/split images by memonechan
Tutorial on blending by afeastforme

[cool_spectrum]

Username + where you post your work: cool_spectrum @ classic_shades
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, guides etc. .PSDs are not allowed: I'm up for anything and I will try to be more prompt than I've been in years past.

[rizbef]

Any chance you could write some sort of guide for using text in gimp? (Unless I'm mistaken and you don't use gimp, sorry I read it somewhere). For the life of me I cannot figure out how to get good text; it always looks flat or too sharp/too blurry, one solid color with no lighting, etc. I read a gimp tutorial that mentioned something about using text to path?? I tried to use that but it looked really bad...

Any advice you have would be most welcome!

[cool_spectrum]

Ooh, that sounds like an interesting challenge, sure! I'm not sure about putting text on a path (I'm too lazy to figure that one out, myself), but I think I have a few hacks that might be helpful for fellow GIMP users.

[novindalf]

Seconding this! I always have to do my text work in PowerPoint and paste as a new layer in Gimp, so I'd love to learn how you do it within Gimp itself!

[wickdshy]

Username + where you post your work: wickdshy @ requintado
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, guides etc. .PSDs are not allowed: I'm coming off a 3 year hiatus and have only been back since May so anything before that I can't do. Other than that, ask away! :)
--->(If you know of anything that you're not able to answer/do, please mention it)<--- Any icons made before May 2017 I'm not going to be able to remember how I did them, lol. :3

[cool_spectrum]

I'd love to know how you work with dark coloring/blacks. Here are some of my favorites:

[wickdshy]

No problem, I can do that! Thanks for the question! :)

[afastmachine]

seconding for the star wars one! I adore it so hard!

[word_never_said]

Username + where you post your work:word_never_said @ come_daylight
What can we request from you (tutorials, Q&A, guides etc. .PSDs are not allowed: anything really, there maybe a few that I didn't save, but I'll do my best! If you request something, I'll do my best to give you an approx eta (I will be running around the country a bit, so if it's saved in my external it may take longer >.<)

[cool_spectrum]

I'd love to know how you made this:

[word_never_said]

Sure thing, I'll get right on it! :)

[afastmachine]

Me tooo!