clara_swift posted a badly scanned photo earlier today and asked for peeps to fix it/iconise it. I complied (because I always do what Clara tells me to do) and then I thought I'd give a quick guide to how I approach the "fixing up" of photos.. you know, badly scanned photos, watermarked pictures and such.

( click, click, smudge )

A couple of textures/bases taken from my own photos. Grab if they tickle your fancy. Credit not necessary but a comment would be cool.

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When it rains, it pours.

14 Moulin Rouge! icons. It's one of my all-time favourite films and it is so beautiful. I'm a bit torn on whether these icons are too generic or not, but I hope you enjoy them.

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Gosh yes, I'm still alive. I've suffered from icon burn-out (and have also been busy with musicon100 entries which I'll post here later). Here's a small set of Franz Ferdinand icons.

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This is a round-up of various icons I've made over the past months but not really known where or when to post. Warning: there's a damn lot of icons here. You can probably also tell from the styles that some of these are rather old.

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Tutorial time.

I was asked about how you deal with text on icons that vary greatly in darkness/light. Here is one solution.

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This was my favourite theatrical release last year: Spanish director Pedro Aldomovar's Bad Education starring Gael Garcia Bernal.

Fourteen icons ahead. Thank you (and belated happy birthday) to splix who insisted I had to go see this film.

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I'm still suffering from Iconer's Block. Woe. So in lieu of shiny new icons, I bring you an icon tutorial (using Photoshop and presuming you know the various tools in Photoshop).

Go from:

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If you have my personal journal friended, you'll know that I've been complaining about feeling uncreative lately. Well, looks like the drought might be over. Requested icons will get made. I think I just need a tiny break from movie-iconage.

Here are four icons of Neil Finn, songwriter extraordinaire.

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Just two icons in this post - both for the upcoming film The Island. Thanks to siriala for providing the picture.

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