Hey guys! You can now find me over at my new LJ, So Small! sosmallxx

Thanks to all who replied and said they didn't want to see me leave, you're all very sweet! :) I'll be back under a new username soon (if anyone wants to help me think of a username or would possibly like to administrate an icon and icon tutorial community with me, go ahead and tell me!), with of course icons and icon tutorials, as well as other graphics. But I'm still going to go on a brief hiatus. My grandma's been very, very sick the last week, and was admitted to the emergency room last night for what they're treating as a heart attack. So right now my focus and energy and time will be going into visiting my grandma at the hospital daily until she goes home again, and helping her out any way I can, which includes babysitting her dog. I know I should be keeping myself occupied instead of worrying about my grandma, but guys, she's not doing good at all. Her sodium levels were dangerously low, and her blood pressure's been really low too, so yes I do have a reason to be worrying and concerned. She has never been this sick in her whole life. Just pray my grandma will be ok, and I'll keep everyone posted! :) Thanks again!

Been meaning to post these, just been very, very busy! Enjoy! Remember: NO HOTLINKING OR BASHING! :)

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This icon tutorial features 1 of my favorite people of all time, Reba McEntire, in 1 of my most favorite episodes of Reba, The Pagaent of the Grandmas. Credit goes to the wonderful beautdisastrfor making me the caps from that episode! In this tutorial, I tried to not only lighten up the pic I used, but I used a texture, and I also tried to make the pic more blue! This is translatable to other versions of PS as well as PSP!

Go from this:  to this:

1. Open up your pic. Resize it to 100x100 pixels after you crop it to the way you like it. This is now your base.
2. Duplicate your base once, set the blend mode to screen and opacity to 100%.
3. Make a new layer. Fill it with this color: 0b0a31 and set this layer to exclusion 100% opacity.
4. Make another new layer. Fill it with this color: dacda0. Set this layer to soft light 100% opacity,
5. Make a new layer. Fill it with this color: ccdaf6. Set this layer to color burn 100% opacity.
6. Remember the blue I was telling you about? This step will make it happen! Make a new levels adjustment layer (Layers+New Adjustment Layer+Levels). In the RGB mode, your input levels will be: 11, 1.03, 232.
In the BLUE mode, these are my settings: 7, 1.11, 232.
7. I also wanted to make Reba's dress more green. So I made a new layer, and filled with this color: d3efdf. Set this layer to color burn 100% opacity.
8. I didn't think my icon looked real bright, so I made a brightness/contrast adjustment layer, and upped my brightness to 13, and contrast to 16.
9. Last but not least, paste this texture:  by heartthepretty onto your icon, adjust it to however you like it, and set the layer to screen 100% opacity.

Done! :)

Other examples:

       

People- GET A LIFE! Quit complaining about my icon tutorials being in icon communities. I'll post them in ICON COMMUNITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE ICON TUTORIALS AND I HAVE LOOKED AND DID NOT SEE ANY SPECIFIC RULES SAYING I CAN'T! SO stop your whining and get over it! I can't stand whiners! I can't please everyone! If you keep complaining, I will close this damn journal and delete everything! Is that what you want? You want to see me gone?! You have made me very, very angry and upset and I am very seriously considering closing this journal down. Why bother keeping it up anymore? Nobody's responded to my latest tutorial, which I changed from my usual tutorials as a request. I only made this damn journal so I could have a place to post all of my graphics and tutorials and not have to worry about bandwidth or making layouts or whatever! It seemed like a good idea at the time but now I'm not so sure.

10 Sleepinh Beauty and 10 CInderella icons! No bashing, no hotlinking, no stealing, and textless icons are NOT bases!

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Attention Disney icon lovers! Would you like to join a brand new Disney icontest? You can! Head over to Disney Dreaming (http://community.livejournal.com/disney_dreaming) today for more details and to join! :D

I'm only gonna post this tutorial in a few communities because I saw some people were getting tired of all the cartoon tutorials I do. Which is fine, they don't have to read it if they don't want to, but I don't want another bashing incident. So here we go! This was made in Photoshop CS2, but I did not use selective coloring this time, so it's most definitely translatable! :)

 to this:

1. Open up your pic. Crop it, with your aspect ratio being 1x1, and resize your pic after cropping it to 100x100. This is your base.
2. Duplicate your base once, and set the blend mode to screen, opacity set at 100%.
3. Make a new layer. (Layer+New+Layer or in PS, Layer+New Fill Layer+Solid Color). When that's done, fill your layer with this color: d09f7a. Set your blend mode to multiply and opacity to 69%.
4. Make another new layer. Set this one to color burn 100%, and fill it with this color: acd4f9.
5. Make a levels adjustment layer (Layer+New Adjustment Layer+Levels). Leave your blend mode and opacity where it is. In the RGB mode I used these settings: 0, 1.10, 246.
6. I think my icon needs some enhancing. So I make a hue/saturation adjustment layer (Layer+New Adjustment Layer+ Hue/Saturation). I increased my SATURATION in the MASTER mode to +27.
7. It's coming along, but there's 1 last thing we need to do before we're done! I made a brightness/contrast adjustment layer (Layer+New Adjustment Layer+ Brightness/Contrast). Increase your brightness to 15, and contrast to 25.

Done! :) See that was easy! Add text or brushes if you want to, I left my icon alone!

Remember:
-No bashing!
-No hotlinking!
-Comments are ♥
-Credit required if using an icon!
-Textless icons are NOT bases!

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*Peter Pan screen caps came from fever of fate!

As much as I loved my other set. I decided it was time for a change! This new set is made by my good friend Courtney, aka Courtizzle, aka hauntedxx1!

Here are the 7 headers!

To celebrate my making of my 300th Disney icon, I have, in 2 separate posts:

37 icons

and

7 LJ headers!

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Wow, I was just looking through my entries and realized I haven't updated my collection of Martina McBride icons in a while! Sorry this will be a bigger post, 25 icons!

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From this:  to this:

This isn't translatable, it's got some selective coloring in it.This should work best on dark, orangey colored images.

1. Open up your base/pic. If it isn't already, crop your pic and resize it to 100x100 pixels.
2. Duplicate your base twice, and set them both to screen 100% opacity. I did this twice because my pic was dark, but you may only have to do this once.
3. Make a new layer. Set it to exclusion, 100% opacity. Fill the layer with this dark blue: 040637.
4. This is the only step that makes this tutorial non translatable to PSP: Make a new selective coloring layer. These will be my settings, but adjust to whatever your icon needs:

Reds

Cyans: 100
Magentas: 0
Yellows: 24
Blacks: 10

Yellows

Cyans: 100
Magentas: 47
Yellows: -37
Blacks: -29


Neutrals

Cyans: 100
Magentas: 12
Yellows: 11
Blacks: 6

5. Make a hue/saturation adjustment layer. Bring your saturation up to 19 in the MASTER section. Again, the amount of adjusting you need will depend on your icon!

6. Make a color balance adjustment layer. In the MIDTONES, these are your settings:

Cyan/Red: -11
Magenta/Green: -29
Yellow/Blue: 9

All done! Remember:
Textless icons are NOT bases!
No bashing!
Comments are ♥
Credit required if taking an icon!

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No bashing, no hotlinking, credit is required, and comments are ♥!

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Turn this: into this: without using selective coloring! Very easy to use!

1. Open up your base/ pic. If it isn't already, reduce the size and crop the pic to 100x100 pixels.
2. Duplicate your base. Control J will do this for you in Photoshop. Set the blend mode to screen and opacity to 44%. We don't want the icon too light if we can avoid it.
3. Make a new layer. Fill it with this color: d77f0d. Set the new layer to multiply, with the opacity set to 66%.
4. Make a new layer. Fill it with this color: 7bccfb. Set this layer to color burn 100% opacity.
5. My icon's looking too dark, so I go to my base, duplicate it, bring it above all my other layers, and set the blend mode to screen and opacity to 100%.
6. Make a hue/saturation adjustment layer, and in the MASTER mode, bring your saturation to +45.

That's it! Other examples:



Remember: Comments are appreciated, and always adjust to whatever suits your icon!

I have a new set, made by my friend Joie (darkhorizonx)! What do y'all think? Oh and be on the lookout for a new icon tutorial coming soon!

16 Sailor Moon icons, textless icons aren't bases! Let me know if you want any of them!

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12 Sailor Moon icons! I love this show and watched it until Cartoon Network pulled it off the air all those years ago! NO BASHING!

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Time for an update! I have a new layout, made by onebigshrug . And I have a new set, made by my good friend Chelsee, aka dream_it_anyway . And last but not least, 15 new Carrie Underwood icons! Brush credit goes to ashenvale_moon. 

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