Iconning

I found a great tutorial on how to make torn paper edges here.

Question related to icon-making, so I hope this will be allowed!

If you post banners along with your icon sets, what size do you prefer they be? Or is it really on a case-by-case basis? I'm toying with the idea of making some banners to share along with my icons, but I'm not sure what size would be most useful.

ETA: I guess I should add that I'm not necessarily looking for an exact pixel size, but do like larger, smaller, vertical vs. horizontal, etc.

( How To Gain Popularity As An Icon Maker )

.jpg or .png?

Which do you use? Why? Is there a difference (that you can tell) between the two?

does anyone know how to lighten hair?

I found a really, really cool Photoshop tutorial for making icons that look like buttons: http://psd.tutsplus.com/photo-effects-tutorials/photoshop-button-maker/

TUTORIALS

• Actions: Actions and Batch Processing (Photoshop).


• Adjustment Layers: Standard Photoshop Adjustment Layers.


• Aspect Ratio: Aspect Ratio for Dummies.


• Button Maker: Make images that look like buttons.


• Curves: Photoshop Curves


• Coloring: Color Balance, Selective Coloring (Photoshop).


• Coloring: Changing hair color.


• History Brush: Photoshop History Brush


• Selective Color: Selective color basic theory tutorial.

If you know of any useful tutorials, please comment with a link! And feel free to post new entries with your own tutorials or links to tutorials too. This is just a resource post.

Please help me compile a list of basic Gimp functions and techniques (with definitions) for people who may be unfamiliar!

• Name: Explanation.

If you know of tutorials for any of these, please comment with a link!

Please help me compile a list of basic Paint Shop Pro functions and techniques (with definitions) for people who may be unfamiliar!

• Name: Explanation.

If you know of tutorials for any of these, please comment with a link!

Please help me compile a list of basic Photoshop functions and techniques (with definitions) for people who may be unfamiliar!

• Actions: Actions are a way to record the steps you take in making an icon and "play" them on another icon. This lets you make icons really fast - if you apply all the same layers and variables on it.
  Tutorials: One


• Curves: The curves tool (available as an image adjustment or as a new layer) can take input tones and selectively stretch or compress them. In plainer language, you can adjust both brightness and color balance using curves.
  Tutorials: One, Two


• Selective Color: This tool (available as an image adjustment or as a new layer) lets youlighten/darken specific colors and add/subtract sub-colour values. In plainer language, it lets you edit the color balance of individual colors.
  Tutorials: One

If you know of tutorials for any of these, please comment with a link!

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