100 Sokka Icons... ZOMG.

[dharmavati.livejournal.com]

And I present my claim at avatar_icon100:

001: Soft	002: Forgiveness	003: Loneliness	004: Abandoned	005: Smile
006: Tears	007: Sunshine	008: Blue	009: Honorable	010: Food
011: Spiritual	012: Candlelit	013: Journey	014: Jealousy	015: Fairytale
016: Awkward	017: Trust	018: Destiny	019: Home	020: Seasons
021: Opposites	022: Quarrel	023: Yin Yang	024: Blackmail	025: Pride
026: Legend	027: Smirk	028: Monster	029: Why me?	030: Melody
031: Sacrifice	032: Run	033: Unexpected	034: Sweet Dreams	035: Dress up
036: Safe	037: Colors	038: Facade	039: Prejudice	040: Trapped
041: Breaking Point	042: No Going Back	043: Pose	044: Meet Again	045: A Vision
046: Promise	047: Shine	048: Listen	049: Seeing Red	050: Animal

Artist's Choice

051: Quote	052: Vacation	053: Pwned	054: Dance	055: Glee
056: Smile, plz!	057: Crazy	058: Work	059: Shock	060: Sherlock Holmes
061: Tykka	062: Catch	063: My Precious	064: Idea Guy	065: Comic
066: Diva	067: Sexy Face	068: Jubilee	069: Laundry Stain	070: Heroics
071: No Rainbows	072: Expertise	073: PWNSOME	074: Frustration	075: Delirium
076: Curious	077: Family	078: Spicy	079: BS	080: Ladies' Man
081: So Smooth	082: Ouch	083: At Work	084: Caricature	085: Instincts
086: Choices	087: Affirmative	088: Stance	089: Scream	090: Revolt
091: Arteest Indeed	092: Surrender	093: Loss	094: Pox	095: Siblings
096: Home in the Sky	097: Piloting	098: Pirates?	099: No Sore Winners	100: Life's Motto

[Notes]
-The text on #87 is a quote said by Dr. Wilson on House M.D.

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[elmo-extreme.livejournal.com]

Your icons are VERY VERY VERY lovley. Lots and lots and lots of luff :D

Elmo has a question.

Mkay, I'm running a crappy old cheap version of Photoshop that I've taught myself how to use. (Elmo got skilz) However, I seem to be stuck when it comes to making layers...Do you make your own or do you grab them from somewhere...and if you do...

Can you pretty pretty pretty please share with Elmo?

Elmo's very very very sad Elmo can't do things as lovley as sporkyadrasteia. Elmo really wants to...Elmo thanks you very much for helping a stuck, derpessed muppet!!

[dharmavati.livejournal.com]

:D

However, I seem to be stuck when it comes to making layers...Do you make your own or do you grab them from somewhere...and if you do...

Well you make your own layers but you can use textures made by other people as layer on top of your original picture to prettify it.

On Photoshop, you want to make sure that the Layers palette is visible. You go to "Window" and select that option that has "Layers" in it (in my Photoshop 6.0, it says "Show Layers"). This will make the Layers palette show up.

Once that's open, you can open your image and the Layers palette will show your image as being the background. You double-click around the word "Background" and then you can unlock the background. You can also add new layers by clicking the "New Layer" button on the bottom of the Layers palette (it should be next to the trashcan icon, which, by the way, lets you get rid of layers that you make). If you've gotten your image all icon-sized (100x100 pixels), you can do all sorts of stuff by putting layers on top of it. You can just create a new layer and just fill all of it with one color and then use the options on top of the Layers palette to do cool things like "Color Burn" or "Screen"; the idea is to play around and try different things. This is also where textures come in, you dowload them and save them to your computer and then you can open them in Photoshop, copy and paste them to your icon and try to do interesting effects with the Layers palette options.

Hopefully, this helps you... and if it doesn't, I would suggest how_2_photoshop, which has tutorials that probably explain better than I can... :D. Good luck with your photoshopping!