twenty six | 120 icons of teen wolf, season 2

[sodapops]

this post has no spoilers for s3a/b, it's only season 2!
there are erica (pre and post bite), derek, boyd, stiles, jackson, lydia, isaac and scott icons. 

i was going to do s3a/b icons but then i started going through screencaps of s2 and got....distracted oops

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credit harlem 
textless icons are NOT bases 
comments are super lovely 

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[sodapops]

oh gosh, thank you so much!

i do plan on doing a simple tutorial at some point, but i'm not sure when it will happen! i can give you the gist of what i go through:

practice makes perfect :) and i tend to mess around with screen, soft light, and gaussian blur and then finally, sharpening. in order to keep icons from getting too sharp, you can use the "fade sharpen" option in "edit".

i also use a lot of layers. A LOT. along with color fills (usually about two, depending on how the coloring of the tv/movie/etc is). it really depends on hair color and skin tone for me. i try and help bring out the tone & hair coloring with each color fill, which i normally set to soft light. yellow backdrops tend to be the death of me though, but i tend to use a lot of selective color for things like that. sometimes, there's not much you can do about it and you have to just work with what you have!

i could perhaps help you by explaining more, since i'm not sure when a tutorial will make its way into this comm. all i would need to know is what your normal technique is and what you're struggling with atm ♥

edit: also, there are plenty of places to get psds! vividtruth @ livejournal is where i started experimenting with psds and i basically trudged through some of my favorite communities there to find psds to help me improve. i'm sure you can find something there, as well!

[mimetism]

This was actually quite a bit of help, and I just want to thank you for even taking the time out to reply. I'm actually working with Game of Thrones caps right now and they're a bitch to lighten sometimes without destroying the quality of the image.

And I'm checking out the LJ comm now. Thank you again!

[sodapops]

i'm glad i could help!! and oh my god, good luck, seriously! game of thrones is probably one of the HARDEST series to color and that's why i only did like...10??? icons of dany because honestly i do not have the patience for that wow props to you, seriously ;;

of course! you can also google "psds livejournal" and a bunch of options should show up. though, that means weeding through the ones that don't work for you. psds are very easy to manipulate tho, so i hope everything works out!