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]

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:



Because the white background was just SO DAMN BRIGHT that using that exclusion layer toned it down.

Or like this one:



That has a really light layer on top of it, it evens out the brightness somehow. Try it out! It's kind of cool. But people tend to use it too heavily, I think. Like this Aragorn icon has one too because it was really dark and then really bright, so now it's just slightly better haha.

[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. :)