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Sephi · 2007-08-27, 16:29

After giving it my stare of doom for a few min i noticed the lines

After that i went for another stare marathon in photoshop. After going true the possible layers i finally found what is causing it. It was the gradient that was causing those lines. I did the gradient with blending options, lesson learned today: don't use the blending option gradient for huge sizes. I reworked the gradient the normal way, and the lines should be gone. These are the final versions.

press F5(refresh) and the new images should be there. (refresh after the tumbnails)

Spoiler for Here they are again:

Thought of updating it when i did the batch of Nanoha/Strikers icon. But might as well post the nanoha icons now. Started with my favorite fate chan first

And sorry guys/girls the Fatefox wasn't very good. To small to be used on desktop.

Tagged my name on the stuff to... I found my Lucky Star on some other place... The people didn't even bothered hosting it on there own server.

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(And you and Icy, thanks both for the good luck. It was kinda different:P and 90% of the new students, in my area there, are male q.q. Well but I can't wait many girls to go learn IT lol)

Walking down the same thorny path i have walked uh... I did IT for 3 years. Only guys

Now i'm doing communication systems - multimedia & design(sort of translated in to that) Guess what? Still only guys... And to find out 90% of them did the same education as me before.

you could of expected not many girls to do IT. But my current one... such rotten luck... I will live with it. To think of, it's not like i got a choice

Wandy · 2007-08-27, 17:20

very nice Signatures...I love the depth, effects and lighting on some of them
especially the Etna Siggy and the animated planetarian siggy(psst you need to tell me how to make animated rain)...I know how to do animated Snow on sigs but not rain :d

Odobenus · 2007-08-27, 20:51

I'd just like to say thank you for making my sig

you're the best!!

solwyvern · 2007-08-29, 04:41

Fate-chan icons ftw! <3
*downloads since I'm too lazy to make my own*^^
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Good job on the trace. I noticed it looked a bit similar to the way Daniel makes them.. (the ?blurred effect) , but anyway it looks good. If you don't think so, don't worry about it, keep at it and you'll find yourself slowly improving as you go.

Sephi · 2007-08-29, 10:36

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Originally Posted by Odobenus

I'd just like to say thank you for making my sig

you're the best!!

Your welcome

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Originally Posted by solwyvern

Fate-chan icons ftw! <3
*downloads since I'm too lazy to make my own*^^
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Good job on the trace. I noticed it looked a bit similar to the way Daniel makes them.. (the ?blurred effect) , but anyway it looks good. If you don't think so, don't worry about it, keep at it and you'll find yourself slowly improving as you go.

Mm the blur on the shading? I make the shape with lasso tool. And than add a feather to it. so the transition from shading to the normal color is a bit smoother. Or at least that is my intention

Don't know if it looks better that way though. But i did got the cheeks shading way from Daniel_E. Atleast i think he was the one posting it. And meh not to satisfied with the last trace. It was a bit harder than i expected. But was fairly satisfied with the Konata one.

Even though i'm saying it now.. I don't wanna do anymore traces... I will probably end up doing one again soon.

Crazy Diamond · 2007-08-29, 12:42

That vector is sexy.......... D:
*huggles it*
Sweet job on your vectoring and those icons are so cute ^^

Zennifa · 2007-08-29, 13:23

wow, you make awesome sigs.

Caldron · 2007-09-05, 14:53

really, you deserve a title

to be "THE ONE"

Sephi · 2007-09-08, 05:25

Reserving this post for all the Anime Icons i have made

Chibi

Misc Anime Package 4

Misc Anime Package 3

Miku Hatsune

Lucky Star

Konata

Kagami

Miyuki

Tsukasa

Akira

Yutaka

Minami

Kanata

Adults/Parents

Misc: School friends

To download all the lucky star icons:
Link 1
Link 2
Drop me a PM if the link is down or download the icons one by one in the Lucky star image thread page 126

Misc Anime Package 2

Misc Anime Package 1

Shuffle

Kanon first 8 are chibi, the rest are normal.

Aria

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha

Fate

Rein

Subara

Signum

Misc Anime Pack 7

To download ALL the icons
Link 1
Link 2

Sephi · 2007-09-08, 05:34

Made 2 video tutorials as you can see. Hope someone has some use for it. The tutorials can also be found at the stickied tutorial thread

Rendering tutorial 1

Spoiler:

Making windows icons tutorial 2

Spoiler:

Nothing to update except for these things. Reseved a post for all my windows icons. Only the Lucky Star and the Subaru and Signum Icons are sort of new.

Hopefully i can make at least one good sig before school starts Monday. But meh don't have any inspiration lately, nor the will to make a sig. Perhaps a long break is at it's place.

Runa · 2007-09-08, 07:28

nice icon there *download them all hehe...^^

oh yea, almost forgot... may i ask u something. am i must using the Axialis Icon Workshop to do that ? coz i make icon myself without using that program >.< and what is the function of that anyway...

i'm always save my icon in bmp type file, it's also usable though...

Sephi · 2007-09-08, 09:31

I don't know how the icons are that you make. But i assume they don't have multiple formats. The one i made are made in 5 formats. A desktop icon format is different than the format of a icon in explorer. I never tried using a BMP as a icon. But do your icons scale properly if you use it for something smaller than explorer? And i never knew windows would accept BMP formats. I'm using Axialis since it makes the .ico format.

geki~ · 2007-09-08, 10:44

Photoshop can make .ico's too

Sephi · 2007-09-08, 13:02

MMm must of missed it than. I checked all save options. But couldn't find it. In the end i tried just slapping .ico after the file name

clearly that didn't worked, atleast not for me

geki~ · 2007-09-08, 15:41

The .ico shows up when the image is smaller than around 250x250 px

Runa · 2007-09-09, 04:47

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Originally Posted by Sephi

I don't know how the icons are that you make. But i assume they don't have multiple formats. The one i made are made in 5 formats. A desktop icon format is different than the format of a icon in explorer. I never tried using a BMP as a icon. But do your icons scale properly if you use it for something smaller than explorer? And i never knew windows would accept BMP formats. I'm using Axialis since it makes the .ico format.

well, i'm already tried BMP.. and it works^^ at least for me though...oh well, i'll try to find those axialis stuff right away....

Sephi · 2007-09-09, 05:17

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Originally Posted by geki~

The .ico shows up when the image is smaller than around 250x250 px

I'm probably really baka but i really don't see it. I tried with a 100x100 format. And i didn't saw it anywhere. Can you tell me how you save as .ico?

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Originally Posted by Runa

well, i'm already tried BMP.. and it works^^ at least for me though...oh well, i'll try to find those axialis stuff right away....

Could you upload one of those bmp icons. I would like to compare the differences.

Just 1 sig.. I'm really out of ideas these days...

What can i say... Not to happy with it. The original was a pic of Saito and Louise in daylight. After spamming photo filters over it. It sort of turned out like this...

Miko Miko · 2007-09-09, 05:44

I Really Like The Lucky Star Icons from that Big clump

The Sig is good.. what does it say in the corner in Japanese?

geki~ · 2007-09-09, 07:00

Spoiler for .ico:

Here ya go.

And the last sig. I think the couple should be placed a bit more up. But that's just me :P

KasumiGirl · 2007-09-09, 07:46

Nice Lucky Star icons, Sephi! Infact, all of them are great :P
As for your recent sig. It's rather okay, imo.

2007-08-29, 04:41	Link #204
solwyvern ▲wight Graphic Designer Join Date: Mar 2006 Age: 36	Fate-chan icons ftw! <3 downloads since I'm too lazy to make my own^^ - Good job on the trace. I noticed it looked a bit similar to the way Daniel makes them.. (the ?blurred effect) , but anyway it looks good. If you don't think so, don't worry about it, keep at it and you'll find yourself slowly improving as you go. __________________ solwyvern ► Vector Wallpapers

2007-09-05, 14:53	Link #208
Caldron Aria feels good.... Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: In my cube (it looked kinda rectangular though, he says)... Age: 35	really, you deserve a title to be "THE ONE" __________________

2007-09-08, 05:25	Link #209
Sephi Thinking outside the box Graphic Designer Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Netherlands Age: 37	Windows Icons Reserving this post for all the Anime Icons i have made Chibi Misc Anime Package 4 Misc Anime Package 3 Miku Hatsune Lucky Star Konata Kagami Miyuki Tsukasa Akira Yutaka Minami Kanata Adults/Parents Misc: School friends To download all the lucky star icons: Link 1 Link 2 Drop me a PM if the link is down or download the icons one by one in the Lucky star image thread page 126 Misc Anime Package 2 Misc Anime Package 1 Shuffle Kanon first 8 are chibi, the rest are normal. Aria Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Fate Rein Subara Signum Misc Anime Pack 7 To download ALL the icons Link 1 Link 2 __________________ Currently watching: Aria the Origination & Dennou Coil Sephi: Anime Icons \| Signatures & Avatars \| Renders Last edited by Sephi; 2011-09-11 at 08:51. Reason: Modified links

2007-09-08, 05:34	Link #210
Sephi Thinking outside the box Graphic Designer Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Netherlands Age: 37	Made 2 video tutorials as you can see. Hope someone has some use for it. The tutorials can also be found at the stickied tutorial thread Rendering tutorial 1 Spoiler: Tutorial making a render Tutorial level: Easy. You won't need any photoshop knowledge to be able to do this. All you need to know is the basic CTRL+C and CTRL+V I won't bother with tons of screenshots. But i highly recommend you to download the video Tutorial to see how it is done. It probably won't make much sense without them. The video are only 23mb together and 1280x800 resolution, and xvid-mpeg encoded. Note this tutorial is made based on my own experience. There might be some mistakes in them, but even so. I manage to be able to do decent graphic design with it. Index - Lasso Tool explained - Lucky Star – Easy - Shuffle – Medium - Comment Lasso tool There are 3 lasso tools. For this tutorial we will only use the Polygonal Lasso Tool, and the Magnetic Lasso Tool. The Polygonal lasso tool will be used for doing the hard parts. And the Magnetic lasso tool will be used for the easier parts. Polygonal Lasso tool The polygonal lasso tool makes straight lines. Every time you press the right mouse button it places a dot, and from there on you make another straight line. If you make enough dots you can actually make a good curve even though it’s only straight lines. I usually use it to extract hard parts. And to do hair strings. Magnetic Lasso tool The magnetic lasso tool is quite a stubborn tool to say so. To extract stuff like the Lucky Star image it’s most suitable since the thick outlines makes it easy to attach to the edges. Once you made your first start with magnetic lasso tool, and move you mouse over the edges of what you what you want to extract you will notice it makes dots automatically. Depending on how thick the outlines are, it can be really easy to use it, or painful if the outlines are very vague. Some things to know about it. you notice it makes dots on itself. If your not happy with the dot it made, press backspace to delete the last made dot. And manually place your dot with the right mouse button. That is actually the only trick to it. Other than that. You can actually do something with the settings of it. But i have yet to found out what they actually do And i’m always using default settings myself. Lucky Star Video Tutorial Link 1 Link 2 We are gone extract this img of Konata, Note it’s considered EASY. Since well, the outlines are thick black color. The difference in color is big, so the magnetic lasso tool sticks to it easily. This is a good example of why to use Magnetic lasso tool. As you can see in the video it takes about a minute to extract it. I personally don’t know a way to do it even faster than this. After surrounding the whole thing. You press CTRL+C > New > CTRL+V. To paste the render in there. If there are some bad parts you can delete it off later. Just remember you can delete this way. But you can’t add new stuff to it, unless you redo the lasso thing with the parts you missed, and paste it there again, and move it to the right location. Shuffle Video Tutorial Link 1 Link 2 This is a Medium one. We are going to extract this image During the video you can see that i had troubles at the top left. I just took a bit bigger. And reworked that area with the Polygonal Lasso tool. That is also the same way to do strings of hair. After surrounding the whole thing. You press CTRL+C > New > CTRL+V. To paste the render in there. If there are some bad parts you can delete it off later. Just remember you can delete this way. But you can’t add new stuff to it, unless you redo the lasso thing with the parts you missed, and paste it there again, and move it to the right location. Comment. If you have tried doing some rendering with the magnetic lasso tool, you have found out that it’s not always as easy as shown in the tutorial video. But most of the time it does work. I have extracted every sig i made using these methods. I even added the extracted render to a premade sig. Just to show you that even though the render quality isn’t good. It’s more than sufficient for signatures. If you see a mistake or so feel free to point it out by pm or in my thread or here. Feedback and comments appreciated. Making windows icons tutorial 2 Spoiler: Video Tutorial how to make Icons for windows(they actually work for Vista to) Tutorial level: Easy All you need to know is how to extract stuff. See my previous tutorial for that if you don't already know how to. Software used: Axialis Icon Workshop Photoshop CS2 rar contains - 3 images used to make them - The Photoshop file - The 3 Icons that are the result of this tutorial - And the Video of course Comment In the Video i will show how to make 3 icons. I picked the original images based on variety of ways to make the icon. The first one is a easy one. Since the Magnetic lasso tool sticks to the sides easily. The second one is like stealing candy from a baby. All you have to do is use the Magic Wand. The third ons is medium. It's a screencap. And actually one of the easier screencaps i did. Since i forgot i had the pic of Miki. I added the icons to the rar to. The icons haven't been posted except for the Konata icon. One important thing is. Since a icon is in a square. The best is if the picture fits in a square. So not to many hair sticking out and stuff. Enough talk. Let's get to the video Link 1 Link 2 If you see a mistake or so feel free to point it out by pm or in my thread or here. Feedback and comments appreciated. Nothing to update except for these things. Reseved a post for all my windows icons. Only the Lucky Star and the Subaru and Signum Icons are sort of new. Hopefully i can make at least one good sig before school starts Monday. But meh don't have any inspiration lately, nor the will to make a sig. Perhaps a long break is at it's place. __________________ Currently watching: Aria the Origination & Dennou Coil Sephi: Anime Icons \| Signatures & Avatars \| Renders

2007-09-08, 07:28	Link #211
Runa Fallen Angel Graphic Designer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: why ask ?? Age: 38	nice icon there *download them all hehe...^^ oh yea, almost forgot... may i ask u something. am i must using the Axialis Icon Workshop to do that ? coz i make icon myself without using that program >.< and what is the function of that anyway... i'm always save my icon in bmp type file, it's also usable though... __________________

2007-08-27, 17:20	Link #202
Wandy Starlight StarBright~ Fansubber Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada	very nice Signatures...I love the depth, effects and lighting on some of them especially the Etna Siggy and the animated planetarian siggy(psst you need to tell me how to make animated rain)...I know how to do animated Snow on sigs but not rain :d

2007-08-27, 20:51	Link #203
Odobenus I have wings! Join Date: Dec 2006 Age: 33	I'd just like to say thank you for making my sig you're the best!!

2007-08-29, 12:42	Link #206
Crazy Diamond in your FACE! Graphic Designer Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Somewhere	That vector is sexy.......... D: huggles it Sweet job on your vectoring and those icons are so cute ^^

2007-08-29, 13:23	Link #207
Zennifa insert cool title here Join Date: Aug 2007 Age: 40	wow, you make awesome sigs.

2007-09-08, 09:31	Link #212
Sephi Thinking outside the box Graphic Designer Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Netherlands Age: 37	I don't know how the icons are that you make. But i assume they don't have multiple formats. The one i made are made in 5 formats. A desktop icon format is different than the format of a icon in explorer. I never tried using a BMP as a icon. But do your icons scale properly if you use it for something smaller than explorer? And i never knew windows would accept BMP formats. I'm using Axialis since it makes the .ico format. __________________ Currently watching: Aria the Origination & Dennou Coil Sephi: Anime Icons \| Signatures & Avatars \| Renders

2007-09-08, 10:44	Link #213
geki~ noLife Artist Join Date: Jul 2007 Age: 35	Photoshop can make .ico's too

2007-09-08, 13:02	Link #214
Sephi Thinking outside the box Graphic Designer Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Netherlands Age: 37	MMm must of missed it than. I checked all save options. But couldn't find it. In the end i tried just slapping .ico after the file name clearly that didn't worked, atleast not for me __________________ Currently watching: Aria the Origination & Dennou Coil Sephi: Anime Icons \| Signatures & Avatars \| Renders

2007-09-08, 15:41	Link #215
geki~ noLife Artist Join Date: Jul 2007 Age: 35	The .ico shows up when the image is smaller than around 250x250 px

2007-09-09, 05:44	Link #218
Miko Miko Imouto-Chan♥ Graphic Designer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: England Age: 30	I Really Like The Lucky Star Icons from that Big clump The Sig is good.. what does it say in the corner in Japanese? __________________

2007-09-09, 07:00	Link #219
geki~ noLife Artist Join Date: Jul 2007 Age: 35	Spoiler for .ico: Here ya go. And the last sig. I think the couple should be placed a bit more up. But that's just me :P

2007-09-09, 07:46	Link #220
KasumiGirl The endless sky Graphic Designer Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Oosutoraria Age: 34	Nice Lucky Star icons, Sephi! Infact, all of them are great :P As for your recent sig. It's rather okay, imo.