Wow. I haven't written a tutorial since the summer of 2006! Yikes! This tutorial is based off of this set of icons and was requested by elerrina_amanya. Part 1 explains the steps I take on almost every icon I've created for at least the past year, if not longer. I thought it deserved to be seperated from the rest of the tutorial.


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This tutorial was requested by peaceinyou. I'm sorry I didn't have time to write this before now, dear! All the icons in this post were made by following steps 1-3 for the color (and 4 when needed) and 5 for the black and white. This is sort of a 2-in-1 tutorial because there is only one step you need to do to make the icon black and white.


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This tutorial was requested by _hushed_art for the icons made in this post. It will create icons in the following style. Note: Step 12 has been edited to tell you what the layer was supposed to be set to.


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Here is a tutorial on how to customize a free account using the Generator style in the S1 style system. I will include the code for adding a centered banner to the top of your journal, a dotted border around your entries, and both customized comment wording and an image in between the comment links. I will start out by providing the code for ( Read more... )

Do you have a paid lj account? Have you ever wanted to customize your journal to have a banner at the top like mine usually has? I have written up some quick instructions on how to do it. I have tried to be clear so if you need me to clarify something, I should be able to help you, but if you need help with troubleshooting, I probably won't be ( Read more... )

This tutorial is for Paint Shop Pro 9, but could just as easily be used in PSP7 (or 8). I think it would work in PhotoShop as well, except you may have trouble mirroring single layers. (I couldn't figure out how to do that when I downloaded the trial version.) I'm not planning on using a lot of pictures to show each step, so I am going into a ( Read more... )

Here is a tutorial on how to customize your toolbar in PSP. I don't know if it will work in all versions of PSP or just the PSP7 version. I find custom toolbars are very helpful and save a lot of time when I make icons. I thought I would post the link to this tutorial because I thought it might be helpful for people. :)

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This is my first and probably only tutorial. :) I use Paint Shop Pro 7 and I almost always use the techniques that I use in here to make my icons.

This is the icon that I made for this tutorial.

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