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This tutorial deals with masks, tonal values and watercolor effects... among other little details. The icon was made in Photoshop 7 but the tutorial is explained with screenshots of CS4, and shortcuts are given for both versions. This means, as far as I know, that this tutorial can be adapted to pretty much any version of PS you may have.

( Tutorial: Masks - Tonal Value - Watercolor Effects )

16 textured backgrounds for icons (100x100). Watercolor effects.

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28 brushes - various sizes, made with Photoshop.

I only made an abr file, no image pack. If pressured/needed by many, I could make one, but those are much more useful as brushes than as stocks. It is called Impasto for obvious reasons. :P



Impasto:
Painting that applies the pigment thickly so that brush or palette knife marks are visible

( previews in two colours and download link )

Yay! Tutorial!
I remember promising a few peeps I'd make one a few months back, so this is long overdue.

This tutorial is about what you could do when you want to icon a character but boring ugly stuff are in the way. In the case of this tutorial, the cell bars in front of John Sheppard's face (Stargate: Atlantis). The icon itself is nothing exceptional but it wasn't the point of the tutorial, so I figured it'd do.

There are probably other ways to do this. This is just mine. I hope you'll enjoy this, and that you'll find it useful in some ways. :)

How to go from (a) to (b)?
(a) ------> (b)


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( 12 textures. 600x600. Previews and download under the cut. )

28 100x100 paper brushes and textures.

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14 textures. Various sizes.

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teasers


( 14 textures. Various sizes. )

For those who are waiting for the Lost icons, they're in the works, meanwhile I bring you 24 misc celebrities icons. All icons were made using some of my scans which I'm posting here as well. Feel free to use the scans for your own icons and graphics but please link back to the journal or this post. Thanks! All scans come from the magazine Premiere (French edition). There's also a new layout. Code by perforada.

24 various celebrities.
01. George Clooney 02. Johnny Depp 03. Ralph Fiennes 04. Harrison Ford 05. Mel Gibson 06. Jeff Goldblum 07-08. Hugh Jackman 09. Heath Ledger 10. Edward Norton 11-12. Brad Pitt 13. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton 14. Keanu Reeves 15. Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman 16. Spike Lee 17. Jennifer Aniston 18. Björk 19-21. Milla Jovovich 22. Uma Thurman 23. Audrey Tautou 24. Mark Wahlberg.

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( The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault - Henry Kissinger. )

25 scans: actresses, singers, models.
42 scans: actors, film makers.



( scans of various celebrities )

New set of brushes: liquid ink!
• 13 brushes. various sizes. abr. image pack.
• Made with and for Photoshop 7.

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abr (zip. 544KB) | image pack (zip. 282KB)

All my other brushes can be found through the resources: brushes tag, or on my site Colordrop.