as my own personal growth continues, i find myself able to refine earlier techniques to the point where they nearly become new techniques in their own right. to finish up my incredibly satisfying hp:spellfire series, i've created a tutorial ( Read more... )

because i'm

• ungodly bored
  
• always up for a gratuitous tutorial
  
• concerned that some folks may think i'm getting HD screencaps from some sekrit source

i bring you a tutorial. this tutorial combines many of the techniques i've used in past tutorials, including hand-colouring and dangerous use of the sharpen tool. it incorporates many of the routine ( Read more... )

part 3: hand colouring a dingbat or b/w pattern

(feel free to use finished icons with credit)

( stay inside the lines )

part 2: hand colouring a colour photograph

(feel free to use the finished icon with credit)

( biggish images, but not very many )

part 1: hand colouring an existing black and white image
(please do not resize image and use for icons, layouts, banners, love slaves, etc.)

( general graphic tutorial, biggish imgs )

from
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per request by thereal_anabel:

( here's a tutorial on a basic lighting effect. )

okay, i'm not the textiest icon maker, but some people have been having issues with text manipulation in photoshop, so here's a basic text tutorial.

( click for tutorial )

i've had a few photoshop basics questions during the last couple of days, so i thought i'd make a simple tutorial, just to introduce some of the tools. this is by no means a display of all the tools i use in an icon, just an example of some simple tricks. i'll also use one simple gradient layer to show what layers can do ( Read more... )