22. 60 Icons: SG-1 & Babylon 5

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

55 SG-1
05 Babylon 5

Small-ish and unvaried batch this time. It has been an uphill struggle to get back into the groove after having gone months without opening Photoshop. Some of these icons have been sitting on my hard drive for 6 months and I want them gone.

One word of caution: Teal'c has some new bling in one of the promo photos. I found it intriguing but I suppose some sensitive souls might consider it to be a spoiler.

TEASERS:


STARGATE SG-1
1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

41-45

46-50

51-55: #53 made using a base from elfcat255


BABYLON 5
56-60


Photoshop Resources ~~**~~ Screen Cap Credits ~~**~~ Movie Promos courtesy of MGM

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Comments

[avidrosette.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are gorgeous. You get so much color into your icons, yet without making them look distorted or neon; they just look sun-drenched. My absolute favorite is #26, the figure is so sharp and soft at the same time - I don't know how you do that - and there's such a range of subtle color in the background and in the figure, pinks and greens and golds. Great expression and cropping, too. Lovely. Taking a whole bunch of others, too. Thanks so much for sharing!

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

That sun-drenched look comes less from selective color, although I use that on almost every icon, and more from using the saturation adjustment. :)

#26 is a special case. I can't explain why it is that some caps seem to soak up whatever I do while others resist but this one was of the former. The cap was also a very low light, well-focused, grainy one. I recently added a new way of lightening and color correcting caps that I learned from awmpdotnet to my toolkit. I did a lot of smudging to smooth his skin but then colored the cap using a gradient map and an overlay of a texture set to soft light (I think) for subtle coloring. I don't have the *.psd file handy but I think that's what I did.

[avidrosette.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for sharing your techniques on that awesome icon! I will definitely be trying them out. :-)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

You know, not long after I posted my reply last night, it occurred to me that you didn't actually ask me to explain. I'm sorry if my enthusiasm for talking icons leads me to go full speed ahead. :| I do hope you know that if there *is* anything you want to know, I welcome questions and will undoubtedly answer in way, way, way too much detail. :)

[avidrosette.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. Actually, I really DID want to know how you had done it, but I was too shy to ask. :-) I truly appreciate the specific information. ♥

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

*whew* I'm glad I didn't ramble on uselessly.

Please don't EVER feel too shy to ask me anything you want to know. I'm always, always happy to chat about icons. I'm not one of the "Greats" in making icons who would have time to do nothing but write guides if I had to answer all comers -- and I don't ever want to be unapproachable. I'm all about the dissemination of knowledge. Others helped me and I fully intend to help anyone who wants to know how I've done anything. *hugs*