21. 86 Icons: SG-1, SG-1 Actors, Babylon 5

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

44 Stargate SG-1
10 Teryl Rothery & Michael Shanks as themselves or other roles
07 Eureka
25 Babylon 5

TEASERS:


Overall, not my favorite set. I haven't had much icon fu for the past month and I can see it in my lack of textures on a lot of these. However, these Janet Fraiser (SG-1) and Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5) icons have been burning a metaphorical hole in my pocket since right before I hit my slump so I'm posting regardless. EDIT: I didn't mean to imply people should bolster my ego. There are icons within this batch that I like. As a set, though, I'm less pleased than I'd like to be. Too many of these seem like something I could have made 8 months ago; I prefer to feel as if I'm improving.


SG-1
1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

41-45


BEYOND STARGATE: Teryl Rothery and Michael Shanks
46-50

51-55


Special thanks to evil_moopie for the excellent screen caps of Janet and Sam and the lovely pics of Teryl!

EUREKA:
56-60

61-65


BABYLON 5:
66-70

71-75

76-80

81-85

86-90


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Comments

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

I'm not certain which icons in particular you were looking at but as I recall this batch relied a LOT on the saturation/hue layers. Essentially, I upped the overall saturation a bit, played with soft light color layers, went off the deep end with selective color layers, and then finished it off with a final saturation layer in which I upped it a tiny bit in general & lowered it for reds so that they didn't over-power the image.

I got the general technique from this tutorial:
http://anet-art.livejournal.com/4691.html

Of course, every photo is different so it's really the process/idea rather than exact numbers that you need. However, the numbers she gives work on an amazing variety of caps so it's normally more tweaking than having to wholesale change the tutorial. It is, by far, the most useful selective coloring tut I've ever seen.

I've since moved to playing more with levels, which also seem to increase saturation, but I believe that I made these with just the saturation/hue layers. If there's an icon in particular you want to know about, let me know. I can either write a tutorial or make the *.psd available (assuming I can get to the latter; I haven't set up my home Photoshop machine again since Hurricane Ike).

[sg-betty.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to try! I haven't actually done much at akk with icons, so it will be fun. Of course, I had an evil virus this weekend, had to format the drive and reinstall XP. Can't get sount to work again and none of my software is installed after 3 days of work, but If I don't have an aneurysm... ; )

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Selective color is seductive and awfully easy to abuse. Once you get it out of your system, though, it's a powerful tool that can really change the look in a dramatic fashion.

Gah! Virus writers are evil. Reinstalling a system is tedious. Hope it doesn't take you too long to tweak the system again. :|