Icon Making Seminar!
Icon Making Seminar
Making icons is fun. Having great resources makes it even more fun. So this is an opportunity for icon makers from all over LJ to share some links and ideas, kind of like a seminar :D
So copy and paste the following, and post it here as a comment. Then post a link to this post in your journal or icon journal and spread the ( Read more... )
Making icons is fun. Having great resources makes it even more fun. So this is an opportunity for icon makers from all over LJ to share some links and ideas, kind of like a seminar :D
So copy and paste the following, and post it here as a comment. Then post a link to this post in your journal or icon journal and spread the ( Read more... )
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(Optional) Link to your Resources page: HERE (and desperately needs to be updated...)
Which graphics program do you use? PSP 8 and AS 3 (I actually prefer PSP 8 to any other version...)
Favorite Tutorials: Oh goodness, I have so many good ones in my memories. My Mems - mostly coloring tutorials
Favorite Textures/Brushes: I like the scratchy textures and the blobs (HAHA!), but rarely use brushes anymore.
Favorite Fonts: A&S series, D3 Beatmapism (for pixel text), Arial
Favorite Image Sources: Veer.com is my favorite right now. Also recommend Corbis.
Favorite Lims/Icontests: stock_lims, actress_lims and badassinc_lims (also avatarhush)
Favorite Icon Communities: Oh goodness...iconzicons, eviltera_iconz, ohh_redlace, obviously iconseeyou, brandyhall_art, grrliz_icons, etc etc.
Most Inspirational Icon Makers: iconzicons (ponyboy and mrbnatural), iconseeyou (ack_attack), grrliz (lovely text icons)...many many others.
Any cool tips? Mix and match your tutorials. I tend to take bits from one tutorial and mix it with bits of another. Sometimes you end up with complete crap, but sometimes you discover something no one has ever seen before. :)
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I am definitely going to raid your tutorials list, I only recently got Photoshop so up until a few months ago I couldn't use them haha. I need to catch up!
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Oh goodness, go go! A lot of the ones I have are PS, but PSP compatible (WOOT!) and I know I have several lists on there too. :D
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(Optional) Link to your Resources page: Here
Which graphics program do you use? Photoshop 8.0
Favorite Tutorials: 1. 2.
Favorite Textures/Brushes: Everything made by masterjinn on deviantart
Favorite Fonts: None, really ^_^"
Favorite Image Sources: http://www.soompi.com/ for everything korean
Favorite Lims/Icontests: dbskicontest edr__stillness ewanstillness grace_stillness icons100 lilly_stillness liv_stillness suju_icontest
Favorite Icon Communities: kmusic_icons kpop_icons rising__sun sujuites
Most Inspirational Icon Makers: spicycons iconseeyou
Any cool tips? Make yourself a useful color palette like this one:
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(Optional) Link to your Resources page: It's in the user info
Which graphics program do you use? PSP9
Favorite Textures/Brushes: blimey_icons ripped paper/scratches,
Favorite Fonts: Marcelle Script, Book Antiqua, Cooper Black, Kravitz, Jey, Jane Austen
Favorite Image Sources: Stock Xchang Media, Corbis Media, hires_hunks, hires_hotties
Favorite Lims/Icontests: there are soooo sooo many.
Favorite Icon Communities: minimal_icons, simplelimit,
Most Inspirational Icon Makers: besides iconseeyou or course :) .... phuck @ last5, blimey_icons, iconofilth, lidi, mediocrechick, foursides
Any cool tips? Ze Icon Table Generator I use. Icon Community Guidlines by teh_indy. Web accessibility by grrliz.
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(Optional) Link to your Resources page: Resource List
Which graphics program do you use? Photoshop 7.0
Favorite Tutorials: This one and this one by iconofilth
Favorite Textures/Brushes:
Paper Textures by blimey_icons
Pretty much everything gender makes, especially this set and this set.
This brush set by elli
Everything at On the Road Again
Sky Textures by myrasis
Texture set by tihana
Favorite Fonts: Ever After, Jane Austen, Print Clearly, Steelfish, GriffosFont
Favorite Image Sources: _jems_, Daydreaming, Lost-Media, LOTR caps, stock.xchng, disparue, cap_it
Favorite Lims/Icontests: lotr_lims, fuselage_lims, startheclock
Favorite Icon Communities: _elitetext, losticons, theoffice_icons, fringe_icons, hp_icons, hp_awards, lost_awards, lotr_awards
Most Inspirational Icon Makers:
blindbeats
call_me_daisy
iconofilth
fracturedshapes
already_iconned
gosh_darn_icons
phuck
laura4lad
tihana
unconfessed
cartographies
loleiasbits
Any cool tips? When I make text icons, using dingbats always adds something extra to them to make them not so boring. And using different shades of the same color always makes it look good ( ... )
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You don't always need a blue Exclusion layer.
What is this you speak of? What does it do?
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