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[green_queen]

Hot off the presses frozenwithin's journal, and not resized.





























ETA: After getting an insane number of "Oh I wish I could make icons like you" comments, I want to tell you how you can. It's easy.

So, ask me how I made any icon and I'll tell you.

Green Queen

Comments

[truffle-shuffle.livejournal.com]

Orlaaaaaaaando: Never prettier than in this movie. Oh. I think you killed me. Again.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I still like thim better with the mohawk...

but this is definitely a close second! *g*

[thehush.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I cannot wait for this movie.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

OMG me either. It looks so good.

[janinelearner.livejournal.com]

I'm dying...of love...

[kaidysoft.livejournal.com]

OMG

I

HAVE

*DIED*

GAH!

[zoniduck.livejournal.com]

He is just so lovely to look at. water_vole got to meet him while he was on the location shoot for the bridge scene in this movie, and she said he was utterly charming in person too.

And I'd kinda like to know how you made this icon.

[araestel.livejournal.com]

Thank you *so* much! I really needed this today! *hugs*

[nanakomatsu.livejournal.com]

*happy sigh* :D

[overloved.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU.

[hikaness.livejournal.com]

Oh, my God. I am not kidding. I liked Orlando Bloom before, but it wasn't until I started seeing the pics from this movie I actually became an ORLI FANGIRL.

That is slightly disturbing. In a good way.

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll make something like it and post step by step so you can see.

First I took this picture:



I cropped it down so I had about half of his face in the frame, since I think that's what looks best with this style:



Then I did what I always do with every base; I duplicated the base twice. I set the first layer to screen and sharpened it, and set the second layer to soft light and sharpened it:



I thought that was too bright, so I lowered the opacity of the screened layer to 53:



This style works best with strong blacks, so I duplicated the background layer again, set the new layer to Soft Light, sharpened and desaturated:



Then I added this layer:

Exclusion, 100%

and got this:



Next I went to Layer -> New Adjustment Layer -> Gradient Map. In your colour palette, there should be black on top and white on the bottom. I set the gradient map layer to Soft Light and got this:



Then I added this layer:

Hard Light, 36%

and got this:



Finally I took this light image:



and pasted it on top. I screened the layer and moved it around until I got:



Then I picked a colour from Dom's sunglasses and added this text layer, in Times New Roman:



(the & is a couple sizes bigger and I chose a colour from his skin for it.)

And tada! Finished product:

[zoniduck.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! No wonder icon makers get so pissed when people don't credit them. That's a lot of work. I'll have to give this a try, because all my icons of people look like ass. Thanks so much for doing this!

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Once you get used to it the first few steps don't take very long. The hard part is deciding what sort of style you're going to use and fiddling with it til it looks good.