I don't believe in karma

I used to rule the world

2008-06-02T03:04:38Z

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[ 10 ] Firefly
[ 13 ] Torchwood
[ 5 ] Harry Potter
[ 2 ] Michael Buble
[ 3 ] Imogen Heap
[ 3 ] Comic
[ 3 ] Text Only

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*made with a tutorial by grrliz

20 Golden Compass

2008-03-15T22:57:40Z

Twenty Golden Compass icons.

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[ 2 ] Lord Asriel
[ 7 ] Lyra
[ 4 ] Mrs. Coulter
[ 1 ] Lee Scoresby
[ 6 ] Serafina Pekkala

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International Women's Day

2008-03-09T18:54:13Z

Yesterday was International Women's Day, so I made icons!

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[ 10 ] Women

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Cloud Textures

2008-02-10T23:13:02Z

Somehow, I never caught on that a lot of people like to use cloud textures, and I've had quite a few of my own personal cloud photos right at my disposal. I've decided to share them, so that others may use them if they so like. They're high resolution images.

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[ 7 ] Cloud Textures

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all_of_icons @ 2008-02-10T13:20:00

2008-02-10T20:23:15Z

This tutorial was originally posted on Magic Box. The site is no longer running. I take no credit for the tutorial, I'm reposting it so that others can make use of it. I worked from my memory to recreate it. The original tutorial was created for PhotoShop, but I am using Print Shop Pro. When I first recreated this tutorial, I think I may have been using PSP 8, but it's transferable to PSP X, which is what I use now.

I'm starting out with this image: and going to this:

This is a model representation of my character, Annie Laurie Carlson. The model's just about right: her lips are a bit too pouty and she doesn't have as many freckles as I'd like, but those eyes are a problem. Laurie's eyes are blue, and this model's are woefully green. So, I must change them! And since I'm changing them, I might as well make them bright, ne?

1.) The first thing I do is make a duplicate layer of the photo. I don't ever want to work on the original layer, because if you make a mistake, it's much harder to reverse. Then I make a blank layer between the original and the duplicate.

2.) Next, I start on the copied layer. I make a selection around the eye. Be sure that the circle fits just the eye, and not on the white or on the lid or anything, or it'll look funky. Then I go to Adjust—Hue and Saturation. I brought the Saturation down to -89, but whatever works for you is good. Do the same thing for the other eye. Now I have grey eyes instead of green.

3.) Now you'll want to see what you're doing, so for the time being make the copied layer invisible. You're going to work on the blank layer. Choose a color of blue (or green, or whatever color you want the eyes to be). I chose this:

You might want to pick something brighter, it depends on how bright you want the end result to look. If you're not happy, you can always go back and pick a different color and paint over it.

4.) Use your round paintbrush to paint over each eye. Then go back to your copied layer and make it visible again. Change the layer to luminance. Your result should look something like this:

5.) Pretty bright! If you're like me, you might want to tone it down now. I made another duplicate of the original layer and brought it up to the top. I changed the layer to lighten.

6.) Right now your image should look more toned down. I have this:

But we're not done yet! If you really want to make your eyes pop, you might want to go a step further.

7.) Using your burn tool, you're going to make the darks even darker. My burn tool has a setting of 50 hardness and 50 opacity. I make the size one. I want it tiny so I can really work with the details. On the first copied layer (the one set to luminance), burn around the eye (think of it as putting on eyeliner) and then around the iris, where the eye is naturally darker. Even burn the pupil a little if you'd like. The end result may not produce much of a noticeable difference, but it'll help in the long run. You may also want to follow through on the second copied layer (the one set to lighten).

8.) The next bit is my favorite part. It really makes the eyes pop. Using your dodge tool now, you're going to make the whites of the eyes really stand out! (Note: I've found that you can also use this on lips to make them look glossy. Just follow the lighter parts of the lip with the dodge tool.) Starting on the first copied layer (set to luminance) you're going to take your dodge tool and set it to 50 hardness and 50 opacity. I start out with a size 2, but you can change it to fit your needs, if you have some tiny spots to go to. Brush the dodge tool over the whites of the eyes. Take several swipes. Use the dodge tool on the shine in the iris and pupil. Be generous! Do it all over again in the second copied layer! And you should have something like this:

9.) Once you're finished, you may need to smooth it out a little. I use the soften tool at size 6, hardness 75, and opacity 100. I just run it over the whites of the eyes a little bit to, well, fix any bumps.

Other images I've done with this tutorial:

I used green for this, and I didn't want it to be too bright. This was the first image I had ever done it with, and with the original tutorial.

You can even do it with black and white images if you just want the eyes to pop a little. I also used the dodge tool to gloss her lips. The burn tool was also very helpful with this one, because it helps to darken the eyeliner and mascara (something I didn't want to do too much for Laurie, who doesn't wear very much makeup).

Happy February

2008-02-01T18:51:55Z

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[ 1 ] Harry Potter OotP (Cho)
[ 6 ] Golden Compass (Lyra, Mrs. Coulter)
[ 4 ] Heroes (Claire, Zach, Mohinder)
[ 2 ] Discworld Quotes
[ 1 ] Michael Buble
[ 1 ] X-Men (Cyclops)
[ 1 ] Cartoon (Rainbow Brite)
[ 2 ] Stock

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Collection

2007-10-04T22:58:30Z

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[ 7 ] Harry Potter
[ 3 ] Discworld Quotes
[ 1 ] 300
[ 1 ] Heroes (Claire)
[ 3 ] Michael Buble
[ 1 ] Firefly (Mal)
[ 8 ] Stock
[ 3 ] Random
[ 2 ] X-Men

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Goodies

2007-01-04T02:50:08Z

Apparently, going to school and working full time doesn’t give much time for icon making. Now that I’m on break, I found a little extra time on my hands. So, icon making it was. Some of them are actually a little old, but I never had time to put them up. Now I do!

I'm also posting a few LJ headers. Please note, while I use these headers in my own journals, I make no claim to the layout. The layout was created by damnicons and taken from freelayouts, with free reign over choice of color and headers. I made these headers to go with these layouts, but you can use them with any layout, really.

My resources for bases and brushes are included in my user info.

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[ 7 ] X-Factor
[ 4 ] Firefly
[ 2 ] Celebrity
[ 2 ] Memoirs of a Geisha
[ 1 ] Stock Images
[ 4 ] LJ Headers

X-FACTOR

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FIREFLY

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CELEBRITY

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MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA

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01-05, 07. X-Factor quotes
08-09. Firefly quotes
12. Have You Got It In You?, Imogen Heap
13. Hide and Seek, Imogen Heap
14. Memoirs of a Geisha quote

More Color Textures

2007-01-01T22:24:18Z

Posting some more of my own textures from film exposures. It’s been a really really long time since I updated. >.<

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Color Textures

2006-09-02T02:26:34Z

For the first time ever, I am posting some textures of my own. [Insert audible gasp here.]

It's nothing too spectacular. All I did was take some really great 'photos' of exposed film and crop them. *shrug* Yeah, no real talent. But I think they make spectacular color bases.

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Back At Last

2006-08-24T01:54:07Z

It's been awhile, I'm aware. I got a new computer, a new scanner/printer, and at last, my PSP software returned to me. So I'm back to icon making.

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[ 4 ] X-Men
[ 6 ] Firefly
[ 3 ] Celebrity
[ 2 ] Stock Images

X-MEN

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02-04. X-Factor quotes
05-06. "Can't Take the Sky" Firefly theme song
07. Firefly quote
10. Headlock, Imogen Heap
11. This Charming Man, The Smiths
12. I Am In Love With You, Imogen Heap
13. They Looked Like Strong Hands, Bayside

Diversity

2006-06-07T07:02:02Z

I don't know when I've ever had a more random batch of icons. Seriously.

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[ 4 ] X-Men
[ 5 ] Firefly
[ 4 ] Lyrical (on stock images)
[ 2 ] Music artists
[ 1 ] Poetry

X-MEN

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FIREFLY

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LYRICAL

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POETRY

10. Dreams Be Dreams, Jack Johnson
11. Tomorrow Morning, Jack Johnson
12. Sexy Plexi, Jack Johnson
13. 83, John Mayer
14. Citadel, Anna Nalick
15. Traffic in the Sky, Jack Johnson
16. Ponder, Darling, These Busted Statues, E.E. Cummings

X-Men/Firefly

2006-04-15T01:39:46Z

I expanded my icon fandomness to include Firefly, which makes me happy. All I must do now is find lots and lots of caps for the show. ^^;;

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[ 7 ] X-Men
[ 2 ] Firefly

X-MEN

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And now that we can have up to 6 userpics, it is the perfect time to add some new ones! *wink*

I'm back

2006-03-29T01:47:56Z

I missed icon making.

Most of these are from New X-Men issue 24. The Hisako icons are from Astonishing X-Men 13. They're my own scans. Credits for bases and brushes are listed in my user info.

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[ 9 ] X-Men
[ 1 ] Runaways
[ 2 ] Music artists

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Trinity

2005-11-30T02:11:36Z

Err. Okay, I have been way too lazy. Well, busy, really. So I've only made three icons of late. Two Dazzler, one Longshot (Exiles).

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Nine's a good number

2005-10-19T21:49:56Z

I've managed to make some icons. I'm sick and I was bored, so yeah. Resources for brushes, bases, etc credited in my user info.

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[ 7 ] X-Men
[ 2 ] Music artists

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08 Tutorial by fadedpages

No Updates?

2005-10-11T02:51:48Z

I haven't been updating with icons lately, and there's a reason for that. My PSP software is on a separate computer. My mouse broke, and in order to use the other computer, I have to switch the mouse from this one. Well, that's just... too much of a bother. I now have the CD drive on this computer fixed, but my software is still with a friend. Not only that, but I need to update my RAM before I can use it on this computer without it freezing up. However, once all that happens, I'll be making icons like crazy. Promise!

At last

2005-09-04T02:45:38Z

[7] Anna Nalick
[2] John Mayer
[3] Michael Bublé
[2] Runaways
[1] Summers brothers
[1] Surge

Harmony

2005-08-09T03:55:19Z

[4] Michelle Branch
[3] Jack Johnson

I’m trying out some new things, and I really like how these turned out. Credits and resources for brushes, textures, etc. are listed in my user info.

Teaser:

Warning!

2005-08-06T03:22:52Z

Warning: I am going to be clearing out my archive soon. It's way too big. I'll be making a different archive, hosted on my boomspeed account. I haven't yet decided how I'm going to go about this, but we'll see. I might even delete some of the oldest icons, and pretend I never sucked that bad. ^^

Well then

2005-08-06T01:57:50Z

I think I spoke too soon. Okay, so I didn't make very many, but even still. I'm trying out some new stuff. Let me know if you like it. Resources are credited in my user info.

[3] Michelle Branch
[1] Drew Fuller

Teaser:

Too Long

2005-08-05T07:35:26Z

It's been about a month since my last update. I feel terrible, but also terribly uncreative. I just haven't felt very inspired. I do have some though. I didn't participate in one week (or was it two?) of contest entries, and then there was another week where they didn't have it, so I only have two rounds from that, for the Stepford Cuckoos, and for Shadowcat. I also have some other icons I made, but.. not very many.

[2] Stepford Cuckoos (contest entries)
[4] Shadowcat (2 contest entries)
[3] Runaways (but they're all the same image, from that lovely cover of Nico. I think that's her name...)

Teaser:

Contest entries

2005-07-07T17:41:52Z

Three weeks of contest entries. They include Polaris, Magneto, and Psylocke.

Teaser:

(mod's choice)
(second place)
(second place)

And because I feel like talking, I'm gonna explain what I was thinking/feeling for these. The first Polaris one, of her Ultimate self, seemed to speak volumes, with Polaris using her powers and Magneto in the background. It seemed to say "make me proud." And of course, Polaris is just like a young, female version of Magneto. How can she make that man proud, if she always has his standards to look up to? She will always be "in his shadow".

The second one reads "polaris" and "opposites attract". This one, of course, was a play on her magnetic abilities. It also represents her strange (even psychotic) nature. On some level, she's two different people, which is also why I used the split image effect on that icon.

Magneto. He is such an awesome character. I don't really care how many times he's fallen, or how overused he is (hey, he's no Wolverine or Jean Grey). He's still such a cool guy. The first one is from the House of M crossover. The line "For the sins of my Father" comes from two things. First, Astonishing X-Men, where the Sentinel tells them that they will pay for the father's sins. That's just where the line came to me from. Second, in one of the previews I was reading, Magneto and Xavier are discussing Wanda's problems, and Magneto blames himself for getting his children into his feud with the humans. Thus, Wanda paid for the sins of her father.

The second one reads "good intentions". And isn't that truly what Magneto is about? He seems evil, he seems like a villain, yes. But what is evil? Even Hitler genuinely had good intentions. Hitler believed that the Jews were ruining their world, just as Magneto believes the humans are ruining his. Magneto's actions are often evil, he's a terrorist. But the ideals behind them were honorable enough. The light effect on the icon is symbolic of Magneto's dream burning up. (Not a "he'll burn in hell" kind of thing)

For the first Psylocke one... I didn't know where the image had come from. But it was her in her fighting stance, so the text - though you can't read it - comes from Nickelback Believe it or Not lyrics. I actually use these lyrics on quite a few X-Men icons, because they really fit. "Could someone deliver us? And send us some kind of sign. So close to giving up. Cause faith is so hard to find." That, to me, really shares a strain with the mutant struggle.

The second one is from Jack Johnson's Crying Shame. "We could close our eyes, it's still there." Of course, that line can be interpreted so many different ways. But basically, no matter how hard you try to ignore a problem, the problem will still be there. You can escape it any way you like, but that doesn't make it go away. In this case, with the X-Men, don't you think that sometimes they just want out? That they would like to close their eyes to it all? The difference is that they feel a certain obligation to carry it out. So for them, they know the problem will be there. They're fighting for a day in which no one will have to close their eyes.

I suggest that you look up the rest of the lyrics to Crying Shame, though. It's another one of those good songs. I love Jack Johnson.

New X-Men

2005-06-29T19:34:14Z

Just some New X-Men icons, even though I really don't like this replacement artist.

Oh, and Lorraine, you have automatic granted-ness of taking these for Freaks and Geeks, if you‘d like. ^^ (I’m way too lazy to email you with them, hun)

[1] Stepford Cuckoos
[2] Hellion (one with Elixir)
[1] Icarus (with Wind Dancer)
[1] Magma
[1] Prodigy
[1] Rahne
[1] Surge

Teaser:

Breathe Icons

2005-06-29T02:48:35Z

This is a project I’ve been working on every now and then for about a week, whenever I get a chance. Now it’s probably as finished as it’ll ever get, so I’m putting it up. They’re my first ever attempt at making lyric icons, to Anna Nalick’s Breathe (2 a.m.)

Altogether there are 30 or more icons here, of various characters, so I’m not listing all of them, but they include Chamber, Archangel, Emma, Xavier… and many others. Enjoy.

Teaser:

Lyrics
[Anything in italics means it is not included in the icons]

2 Am and she calls me cause I'm still awake
Can you help me unravel my latest mistake
I don't love him and winter just wasn't my season.
Yea we walk through the doors so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize
Hypocrites you're all here for the very same reason.

Cause you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable and life's like an hourglass glued to the table,
No one can find the rewind button girl
So just cradle your head in your hands.
And breathe, just breathe, whoa breathe just breathe

May he turned 21 on the base of Fort Bliss
Just today he sat down to the flask in his fist
Ain't been sober since maybe October of last year
Here in town you can tell he's been down for while
But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
Wanna hold him but maybe I'll just sing about it

Cause you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table,
No one can find the rewind button boys so cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe, whoa breath just breathe

There's a light at the end of this tunnel you shout cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made
You'll just make them again if you'll only try turnin' around

2Am and I'm still awake writing this song
If I get it all down on paper it's no longer inside of me threaten' the life it belongs to.
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary screamin' out aloud
And I know that you'll use them however you want to.

But you can't jump the track
We're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table,
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand...yeah breath
Just breathe, ohho breathe,

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