Congrats all round because it wasn't an easy challenge - and don't you just hate the 'I wish I'd thought of that moments?? :)
The tiger icon came about because I was fiddling with textures in the pallet and there were tiger, cheetah and zebra patterns so I thought I'd see if I could do a multi animal icon. The trick was trying to find pictures that were similar enough to use - it's not easy getting animals to look directly at cameras ;) I just selected the images and expanded the selection by a pixel or two then set the texture as the colour and flood-filled the selection.
The blue rose was a base picture and I found a grainy texture, coloured it blue but then thought it was a bit sharp so I blurred the layer a few times with different settings and chopped a rectangle out.
The others I just found some textures stored in the corner of my pc and played around with colourings and lighting until I got it somewhere I liked.
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Date: 2009-02-20 09:18 pm (UTC)The tiger icon came about because I was fiddling with textures in the pallet and there were tiger, cheetah and zebra patterns so I thought I'd see if I could do a multi animal icon. The trick was trying to find pictures that were similar enough to use - it's not easy getting animals to look directly at cameras ;) I just selected the images and expanded the selection by a pixel or two then set the texture as the colour and flood-filled the selection.
The blue rose was a base picture and I found a grainy texture, coloured it blue but then thought it was a bit sharp so I blurred the layer a few times with different settings and chopped a rectangle out.
The others I just found some textures stored in the corner of my pc and played around with colourings and lighting until I got it somewhere I liked.