User: bri Date: 2011-10-11 00:41 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Very nice icons! Love this movie!

User: immortalje Date: 2011-10-15 16:57 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: SH:09-sherlock:white

Thanks :)
It is a great movie :D

User: tryslora Date: 2011-10-25 16:34 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Finally remembering to go back and comment on icons! I love the consistent color palette. I really like Alone and Cat#3.

User: immortalje Date: 2011-10-26 08:15 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Thanks :D
(and I know all about forgetting to go back... I really need to keep better track of icon posts ;) )

User: tryslora Date: 2011-10-26 12:34 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Yeah, I don't like to comment until I've got my own set done (I usually try not to even look at the posts until my own set is done). I tell myself to go comment once mine is posted, then I promptly forget. *sighs* At least I remembered even if it was late??

User: immortalje Date: 2011-10-26 21:57 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I usually think that I can always reply while making the voting post... and then I'm so busy with putting the voting together that I forget!
(otherwise I bookmark posts and it can take me months to look at those bookmarks again)... it's better late than never ;D

User: dani_meows Date: 2011-10-28 04:19 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: Sherlock Holmes: Holmes/Watson back slee

As always your black and white icons are brilliant! How did you get white so lovely white?

I love blues,contrast, foreign language, sweet, white, AC1, AC 5 and Alt 1. (coincidentally these are the ones I'm snagging for later use! And putting in your folder LOL.)

User: immortalje Date: 2011-10-29 09:44 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: DW-mattsmith:brainyspecs

Thanks :)

As for white... without checking, I think I probably started with my standard combination (after a black/white layer) of levels and curves.

I usually do the levels first to make the light areas white and the dark areas black. After that I use a curves layer and in that menu are eye droppers (for white, midtones and black I think). I tend to use these to set the whitest/blackest part of the icon (depending on which eyedropper I selected, the order usually doesn't matter) and it adjusts the curves automatically to that. I once got this tip when I was looking for ways to add contrast images of my grandparents 25th wedding anniversary that were really washed out (in parts because the photographer was drunk and screwed up while developing them - or so I was told)

I picked an image that had a lot of light areas to begin with, which helped. And then I probably used a couple layers set to soft light were I painted over some areas I wanted a bit lighter with white before blurring it (and setting the visible of the layer accordingly)

I might also have added a gradient map (black/white) to add some more contrast again.

I hope this rather long explanation helps. Otherwise I'll actually have to take a look at the icon :D

User: dani_meows Date: 2011-10-30 02:18 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: Sherlock Holmes: Holmes/Watson domestic

*reads a few times*

Curves! I almost never think to play around with curves... :-D

Thanks!

User: immortalje Date: 2011-10-31 18:56 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I've come to love curves :D
They're in my "default" course of action when making icons ;D