Icon Making Seminar!

[iconseeyou]

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

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[ack_attack]

Icon Journal: iconseeyou

(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

[phuck]

HI.

You don't always need a blue Exclusion layer.

What is this you speak of? What does it do?

[ack_attack]

Do you really not know? If you make a layer of dark blue and set it to Exclusion, you get that whole slightly yellow look that a lot of people use. But I feel like a lot of people think they ALWAYS need one, but they really don't. I use it for stuff like this icon:

[ack_attack]

Haha I meant THIS Aragorn icon.

[phuck]

Hahahaha. GOOD JOB.

[phuck]

Ahh. See, I love the brightness! Bright = SHINY. Maybe the fact that I don't use it is why people think my icons are so shiny? Hahaha. I love that second icon there though. :)

[ack_attack]

Haha I thought you'd like that one XD

Yeah you know, I like the shiny icons too so I don't really use it very often. But once in a while it came make something look awesome.

[phuck]

When I need to make an icon darker I normally just duplicate, set to multiply on maybe 20% and then put a soft light on top at a percentage that makes it look better. I just fiddle. The blue layer is probably easier. Hahaha.

[ack_attack]

Yeah I do that too...the blue layer is more for like...evening out than darkening. You'll see what I mean, next time you open Photoshop just take an icon and throw a dark blue layer on top and set it to like 15%. It kind of like flattens it out as opposed to making it darker.

[erunameundomiel]

I used to use a blue exclusion layer quite a bit in order to subdue an icon, but now I've switched to using a light yellow/tan multiply layer. I found an exclusion layer could wash things out a bit. With the multiply layer, I can even out the brightness and have that warm yellow glow. :)

[jackie]

I used one on this icon and I actually really like how it makes her skin look. :)

But like ack said, you have to be careful with it. It can get too yellow. :\