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I'M NOT DEAD!!!!! Wait till I instal photoshop again :Dv yea recently I reformatted my comp cos of some stupid trojan viruses, and I lost a lot of programs, but no worries I'll be back in no time 8D

The blue moon has come early! Here's 4 brush sets (well, 3 and a set of light textures) for you. Call them test trials, if you will - I'm still figuring out how people make these things. Comments and credit are appreciated, but not required. Download here. Download here. Download here. Download here.

Kinda been dead around here, but  100x100_brushes just granted me posting access (a few months after I'd applied, which was back when I actually still made icons) so I thought I'd whip up something. I hope these aren't too dark - they look fine on my monitor so hopefully they'll be fine for the majority of you. Download here.

Waahhh... It's been so long since I last posted! I'm so sorry peoples! >__

Woo! Another icon tutorial 8D. I'll make an icon post soon~~ Anyway, Suu from Clover tutorial requested by silverblade219 . From to Icon made in: Adobe Photoshop CS > 01. Duplicate your base and set it to SOFT LIGHT 100% . Press Ctrl+A to select the new layer, then go to FILTER > BLUR > GAUSSIAN BLUR and set the radius to 1.0. Play with the radius until you get...

Textures, brushes and gradients >> masterjinn @ dA >> thewakeofsaturday @ dA >> fuzzystuff @ dA >> bombay101 @ dA inxsomniax   silverqe   77words   fuyuno   quebelly   discolore   cdg   sanami276   kaien_kun   ashenvale_moon   _hakanaidreams   dearest   wonderland__   If you're sure I've used...

Going from to Gah so bright! >___ 001. Duplicate your base and set it to SOFT LIGHT 100% to give some contrast. > 002. Paste the dark blue layer (#0D244A) over the icon and set it to EXCLUSION 50% . > 003. Slap on this texture and set it to MULTIPLY 100% . Then use the eraser tool to erase the parts on Ayu, like what I've done above :3 > 004. Paste this texture onto...

A tutorial of Ayumi Hamasaki requested by soifon :3 From to Icon made in: Adobe Photoshop CS > 01. Duplicate your base and set it to SCREEN 50%. > 02. Duplicate your base again and set it to SOFT LIGHT 50% . > 03. Use this dark blue layer (#0A1333) and set it to EXCLUSION 75% . > 04. Slap on this pink layer (#D9B9C9) and set it to OVERLAY 45%...

A tutorial requested by kaze_tsuki , won at anime_abc week X third place :3 From  to Icon made in: Adobe Photoshop CS > 01. Duplicate your base and set it to OVERLAY 75% . Press Ctrl+A to select the new layer, then go to FILTER > BLUR > GAUSSIAN BLUR and set the radius to 3.0. Play with the radius until you get a result that you like. > 02. Slap on that...