Thanks hon! 1 & 4 are my favorites too. 1 was a LOT of trial and error.
it's something I cant do (#1) the blanding of images ... I need to focus and play .
Chasingdemons has been so so helpful to me, she's a great teacher! Maybe she could help you as well? There seems to be still a lot of playing and just diving into it involved. I don't know how complicated it is to make layers in gimp but chasingdemons and eilowyn found me a simple visual tutorial on adding logos to an image which is basically what I did with these buttons. The frames around the icon had to be added first because ipiccy had limited flexibility in adjustments once you start putting layers together.
I might be able to help you a bit as much as I can as a novice? Basically, the first three buttons involved layers - I added a frame to the icon, then had to create a background to go around it (in the case of 2 and 3, just a plan rectangle I colored peach.) text and frames were added afterwards.
#4 isn't actually layers per se, it's a lot of ipiccy frames. First I added a reflection "frame" (more of an effect) that reverse the image; then added several layers of "mirror" frames with the gloss set all the way up.
I did the same with the last image and icon #14, which I cropped from the large poster - lots of mirror frames, then canted the image, then used the clone tool to repeat the patterns of the angles and Buffy's reflection. (I could do a tutorial on that perhaps, if you like?)
Yes, Joyce & Jenny ... both great ladies, aren't they?
YES! I love the mature women of btvs and we didn't get enough of them onscreen. I like I Robot You Jane more than most fans in part because that's the ep that introduces her. Jenny's death was the third time the series made me cry. (Nightmares and PG were the first two.) I haven't been able to watch Passions a second time.
I also would have loved to see the two of them get together - I don't think Jenny and Joyce had a single scene together?
And congrats on the icon .... I was off line for 10 days (grrrr), so missed the deadline, and the vote.
Oh thank you! And one has to take a break now and again, there's always another challenge. (the latest one is about AtS characters so I won't enter but perhaps you'd be interested?)
I honestly thought that iconsoleander's Faith set might be yours - I picked the close up for best crop - because there was an emotional rawness, the deep contrasts and the lack of "prettiness" to it that seemed of a piece with your work.
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Date: 2014-07-08 07:19 pm (UTC)it's something I cant do (#1) the blanding of images ... I need to focus and play .
Chasingdemons has been so so helpful to me, she's a great teacher! Maybe she could help you as well? There seems to be still a lot of playing and just diving into it involved. I don't know how complicated it is to make layers in gimp but chasingdemons and eilowyn found me a simple visual tutorial on adding logos to an image which is basically what I did with these buttons. The frames around the icon had to be added first because ipiccy had limited flexibility in adjustments once you start putting layers together.
I might be able to help you a bit as much as I can as a novice? Basically, the first three buttons involved layers - I added a frame to the icon, then had to create a background to go around it (in the case of 2 and 3, just a plan rectangle I colored peach.) text and frames were added afterwards.
http://ipiccy.com/help/how-to-add-logo-and-text
http://red-satin-doll.livejournal.com/47629.html?thread=1534733#t1534733
#4 isn't actually layers per se, it's a lot of ipiccy frames. First I added a reflection "frame" (more of an effect) that reverse the image; then added several layers of "mirror" frames with the gloss set all the way up.
I did the same with the last image and icon #14, which I cropped from the large poster - lots of mirror frames, then canted the image, then used the clone tool to repeat the patterns of the angles and Buffy's reflection. (I could do a tutorial on that perhaps, if you like?)
Yes, Joyce & Jenny ... both great ladies, aren't they?
YES! I love the mature women of btvs and we didn't get enough of them onscreen. I like I Robot You Jane more than most fans in part because that's the ep that introduces her. Jenny's death was the third time the series made me cry. (Nightmares and PG were the first two.) I haven't been able to watch Passions a second time.
I also would have loved to see the two of them get together - I don't think Jenny and Joyce had a single scene together?
And congrats on the icon .... I was off line for 10 days (grrrr), so missed the deadline, and the vote.
Oh thank you! And one has to take a break now and again, there's always another challenge. (the latest one is about AtS characters so I won't enter but perhaps you'd be interested?)
I honestly thought that iconsoleander's Faith set might be yours - I picked the close up for best crop - because there was an emotional rawness, the deep contrasts and the lack of "prettiness" to it that seemed of a piece with your work.