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These are the icons I made for deirdre_c for Sweet Charity!




See them all here at morbid_girls

Created in CS3, uses gradient maps. Difficulty from 1-10: probably a 4-5?

Go from to

See the whole tutorial here at morbid_girls.

I am also open to requests if there are other icons you'd like to see tutorials for. Please see the linked post to request.

I didn't get one lick of writing done this weekend. It feels like it's just flown by, which irritates me to no end. Why can't we always have three day weeks? Ugh.

Anyway, thought I'd do up a couple tutorials for shits and giggles.



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NO selective colouring in these. See them here at morbid_girls.

I'M GONNA POST FIC TOMORROW AND I'M SO JAZZED!

I has a tutorial! It's a CS3 tutorial with optional selective colouring and a bit of a mini-tutorial on masks.

Go from this: to this:

And this time I'll remember the link! See the tutorial here at morbid_girls.

I love making tutorials so if anyone's ever curious or would like to see one for a particular icon, let me know!

And hey, if you guys have some spare moments today can you vote at likethegun_lims?

I'm actually looking FORWARD to going to work tomorrow!

I was in SUCH a horrible mood earlier. I woke up with a bad headache this morning which I think is from sleeping so hard on the side of my face that it made my jaw ache. I'm exhausted today so thank god for two days off, which I'm taking the full time of. Fuck work.

Once I ate and had some time to myself to calm down and relax I started feeling better. I see from reading my flist that I'm not the only one in a poo-poo mood today, so rock on.

I was talking to spuzz earlier and she was like- dude, I'm SO ahead of you on the icon posting thing. She's put up 21 icon posts, I've put up 9 as of tonight. So I need to do a severe clean out of my icon folder cause I have about 350 hanging around in there right now. Sick, eh? And most of them are SPN icons! LAME.

So icons!

02 x Various movies (Drive Me Crazy and The Faculty)
02 x Kristen Bell
05 x Planet Terror
05 x Angel
05 x Roswell
07 x various TV (Doctor Who, Aliens in America, One Tree Hill and Friday Night Lights)
09 x Gossip Girl
10 x Skins




All 45 icons are here.

I've been wanting to make some posts for morbid_girls for awhile, things like a font guide and a basic icon/tips guide, maybe an SPN caps colouring guide by season, etc. Is there anything anyone here wants to see? A specific icon tutorial? Anything? Please, let me know! And I'm working on my Sweet Charity icons AND I've still got those interest icons in the back of my mind!

Is anyone else having the WORST TIME EVER viewing people's entries? I don't know what the fuck is up. ... Huh. I just cleared my cache. Problem solved. That's only been FIVE HOURS of frustration. Clearly, I IZ SMRAT.

I've been sick with the flu since Monday night and I've gone to a few classes and whatnot but every time I went to make a post or something I just kind of flopped around and said fuck it. But there is something I've been noticing that's irritated the snot right out of me. (Mmm, great mental image, eh?)

( On being lazy when someone makes a tutorial )

( On the issue of selective colouring )

Tutorials should inspire you to try something new, teach you something you didn't know before, show you a new way of doing something. It shouldn't tell you to do something in a certain way on every single icon so you can make 300 icons that look exactly the same.

Some of the best tutorials I've ever seen are ones that teach me a different way I was already doing something, or trying to. This one by letsey_x is amazing. And entries like this at weapons_icons are a gold mine. Looking through tutorials on wallpapers or banners are really awesome because they usually incorporate colouring, textures and sometimes multiple images or maniping. If you're looking for maniping tuts lostt1 did a quick and dirty one here and nemo_88 did a couple awesome ones here and here.

When you're just starting out tutorials are great for learning the basics; it's how I learned because the PSP "help" wasn't helpful at all. But there comes a certain point when you stop being led around your programme by the hand and start experimenting and making your own tutorials. A lot of the time the icons you're drawn to the most probably aren't complex, dozen-layer feats. With a little experimentation it's easy to come up with a variation like it or something even better. Just give it a go!

And now I've finished my slightly ranty-rant. I haven't posted something like this in awhile. I think it's time for a nap. Also, this might be my new favourite icon. *hides*

I just posted two Supernatural tutorials for a couple icons over at my icon community, momentofglee.

01. From this: to

02. From this: to

See them both here.

Feel free to request another tutorial over there, if you want. I'm hoping to post more icons soon-ish, as well.

Also, I've started watching the One Tree Hill pilot tonight. I didn't get very far yet because I got distracted but still. This is the start of my descent into madness, isn't it?icons:

I posted a tutorial here for the icon I'm using right now. Go check it out!

Also, I got hit with overwhelming excitement for the new episode. *sits on hands and tries to make time pass faster* I can't even explain what it is that's made me so excited for it all of a sudden. Whee!

I posted another icon tutorial that can be seen here for . Feel free to request a tutorial here.

I've finished wrapping my Christmas gifts and they're all under the tree. Now I just have to fill out a card for my aunt and uncle and I'm set. It doesn't feel like Christmas but it never does to me anyway. One good thing about this year is that I don't feel overly depressed like usual. It just... is. Everyone please keep their fingers crossed that the weather cooperates for my mom so she can get to her cousin's for Christmas. I don't want her spending it alone. :(

If I don't talk to anyone tomorrow or post HAPPY HOLIDAYS! May it be a happy, safe and peaceful one for us all. Live long and prosper. Whatever.

I just opened a request post over at momentofglee for tutorials. I don't know if there's any interest in that but I thought I'd offer before I open an icon request post up. It's also a way for me to procrastinate from my fic challenge responsibilities. *hides*

Check out this post, see if there's anything there's you're interested in and comment to that post if you'd like to see a tut for anything.

I posted this earlier to icon_tutorial but I thought I'd stick it here as well, in case anyone else could get use out of it.

I'm probably the last person that should write a tutorial given I've just started to get the hang of proper icon making a little while ago (compared to what I used to do) but I liked the way this icon came out so well I thought I'd share. Big thanks to nikita_80 for looking this over for me before I posted so it didn't sound wonky.

( Tutorial for PSP 8 users )

Hope this helps someone! Enjoy!