pensnest: Town Crier from Rome clears his throat, caption AHEM (Rome Ahem)
[personal profile] pensnest2010-06-26 03:11 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #95 by pensnest

Hi all, thanks for the votes, and sorry I'm just squeaking in with this tutorial—it's show week this week so there has been a lot of time spent on rehearsals, on the programme, on costumes, and on lolling around recovering!

Anyway. This icon was made (with quite a lot of frustrated screeching) in PS CS5, but it is actually very 'old school' and completely translatable.
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[personal profile] alyburns2010-06-18 03:18 pm
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winner's tutorial #93 by alyburns

Thank you all again for the First Place! I wasn't sure what this challenge was really about, having not been around the last time a brush was used as the object - so I just did what I envisioned the moment I saw the picture - which was basically a 21st century version of a painting by Rubens.

I used Photoshop Elements 5.0

So, going from this: to this:


the tutorial )
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[personal profile] paian2010-06-14 09:47 am
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Mod's Invitation Tutorial, Challenge #93, by Paian



This icon was made using Photoshop CS4 on a PC. It uses a brush made for the challenge, a bit of a stock image, layer stamping and re-sizing, a simple layer style, and a text layer.

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[personal profile] nagashiwa2010-06-08 06:16 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #92, by Nagashiwa

How to go from this: to this

This icon is made on a PC and with Photoshop cS3

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pensnest: Pullo looks disbelieving, says SRSLY? (Rome SRSLY says Pullo)
[personal profile] pensnest2010-05-28 10:28 am
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Winner's Invitation Tutorial, Challenge 91, by pensnest



This icon was made in PS CS3 on a Mac. It uses a couple of filters.

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pensnest: Town Crier from Rome clears his throat, caption AHEM (Rome Ahem)
[personal profile] pensnest2010-05-28 10:27 am
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #91, by pensnest



This icon was created in PS CS3 on a Mac, and uses Curves, a Gradient Map and a custom shape.

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[personal profile] stripped2010-05-24 07:46 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #91

This icon was made using Photoshop CS4 on a Mac and it was a seriously happy accident. I got the last layer to work and all of a sudden it turned from a hmmm icon into one I knew I had to keep.

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pensnest: my floral Doc Martens against the sky (Bwee)
[personal profile] pensnest2010-05-15 05:50 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #89, by pensnest

This is where I rejoice that I keep notes on the Layers palette, as it has been a while... Icon was made in PS CS3 on a Mac, and uses Curves and Color Balance.

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[personal profile] stripped2010-05-03 07:21 pm
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Invitation Tutorial, Challenge 89, by stripped

This icon was a lot easier to make than it seems like it should be. Writing the tutorial in a way that shows the steps is actually more complicated. :) The icon was created using Photoshop CS4.

this way to the tutorial )
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[personal profile] stripped2010-04-26 07:13 pm
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Invitation Tutorial, Challenge 88, by stripped

I created this image in PS CS4 on a Mac. I had originally created it without text, but it looked unanchored that way, so I added the text at the bottom as a last minute decision.

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[personal profile] pensnest2010-04-02 10:59 am
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #85, by pensnest



This icon was made in PS CS3 on a Mac. It uses a couple of filters, which may not be exactly translatable.

This challenge proved to be a lot harder than I expected! Really, there's quite an art to choosing pictures for an icontest, and I'm still very hit and miss. Ah well, it is supposed to be a *challenge*.
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[personal profile] pensnest2010-03-25 05:52 pm
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Invitation tutorial for Challenge #84 by [personal profile] nagashiwa is here.
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[personal profile] pensnest2010-03-19 05:48 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #84, by pensnest

In which this becomes this .

Icon was created in PS CS3 on a Mac, but provided you can do a Gaussian Blur somehow I don't think there is anything untranslatable involved.

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[personal profile] pensnest2010-02-21 10:19 am
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Invitation Tutorial Challenge #80 by Immortalje

The Invitation Tutorial for Challenge #80 by Immortalje has been posted here on LJ.
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[personal profile] pensnest2010-02-20 08:24 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #80, by pensnest



This icon was made in PS CS3 on a Mac. It uses a Colour Balance layer and a couple of filters.
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pensnest: Octavian from Rome: Caption It's really perfectly simple (Rome Perfectly Simple)
[personal profile] pensnest2010-02-13 12:23 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #79

This icon was created in Photoshop CS3 on a Mac, but I'm pretty sure there is nothing that cannot be duplicated in any graphics program.

Neuschwanstein Castle )
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[personal profile] pensnest2010-02-08 10:35 pm
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Invitation Tutorial Challenge #79 by Nagashiwa

The Invitation Tutorial by Nagashiwa has been posted to Severalplums on LJ here.
pensnest: yellow plums (plums number two)
[personal profile] pensnest2010-02-07 10:22 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #78

The Winner's Tutorial for Challenge #78 has been posted here on LJ.
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[personal profile] turlough2010-02-01 12:41 am
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge 77, by turlough

I'm sorry I'm a bit late with this, last week wasn't a very productive week for me I'm afraid.

First of all, thank you everone who voted for me!

This icon was made in Photoshop Elements 6.0 on a Mac and it may involve many steps but it's really very simple so I think it's translatable to just about any program. We will be going from
base to finished icon

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