POTC Icons

[amezri]

Just the two for today.

Once again, for those who are visiting and are not one of these people (because you are all cool)

1. Comment so I know where these are going.
2. Credit. Keywords or info page. Icons are tagged. Thieves will be hunted and killed for sport.
3. DO NOT edit. I spent 2 hours per icon tweaking everything and you really don't need to go in and mess around with it more. Really. It's fine. Hands off.


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Right then. Enjoy! :D

Comments

[buhfly.livejournal.com]

JAZZ HANDS!!!

[leggyslove.livejournal.com]

LOL I just spend 2 hours on my first mini movie icon. *points up* It's my first try. :P

Anyway, I love yours, and am stealing #1. Will credit in keywords. ;)

[old-wp.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was just wondering what program you use to make you icons?

Thanks,
Jengrrrl

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)

DUDE!! Xena! :-D Verra nice.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

ahm, you spelled my name wrong ^_^** Flipped the r & z, which is very common ^_^*

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Luffs the jazz hands :-D I can't believe they cut that from the movie.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

oooh, hi! ^_^ Jengrrrl who wrote "Purdah" and all those lovely W/R fics... okay, going to being a geek now.

I use Quicktime Pro to get the clips and Photoshop to make the icons.

[evemac.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I think I must use jazz hands. Most definitely will credit.

I love these!

[goingtralala.livejournal.com]

I loff your icons! Jazz Hands is so funny.

btw - how do you incorporate the movie into the icon? it's wicked cool how you've done that.

~rosie

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) the movie icons are a bit complicated to explain.. but basically, it's a transparent animated gif with a still background.

If you have never created an image with animation before, do that before you try one of these.

The steps I use are generally:
1) Get frames for the animation (I use Quicktime Pro)
2) compile them in Photoshop (each frame on its own layer), tweak levels, link frames
3) create a new file for the icon. Make the still image part.
4) resize the file with frames. drag into icon file. resize more if needed. The smaller the size, the more frames you can get get, but the less detail you will see
5) animate in imageready.

You can find tutorials online for all the individual steps. Just search google.

[shimmiwyld.livejournal.com]

Snatching both if I may? Veeery pretty.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

of course you may! :-D Glad you like them :)

[leggyslove.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) I just wish I could get it less grainy, but I like it.

[leggyslove.livejournal.com]

Ah, ok. lol Thanks for tellin' me. ;)

New icons! Ladidadida

[shimmiwyld.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeee. I have hot!boy icons. My life is complete. *giggles like a fangirl* Thank you, precious.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I thought me and like two other people were the only ones who got the jazz hands. LOL

[goingtralala.livejournal.com]

oooooh thank you!

whenever i get it done, i will show. thanks again!

[amezri.livejournal.com]

No problem. Glad to help. Good luck! :D They're addicting :-P

[goingtralala.livejournal.com]

oh quick question, can you use powerdvd to get the movie clip or do you reckon i should use quicktime pro?

[amezri.livejournal.com]

I haven't used PowerDVD, so I'm not sure. I use Quicktime because my source files are movs I downloaded. PowerDVD will be fine as long as you can get the frames saved.

[sg1padawan.livejournal.com]

SWEET!! They look fabulous! Snurching both, but not sure which I'll end up using yet... *bites lip*

[goingtralala.livejournal.com]

okay and sorry to bug, but one last question (i'm feeling a case of dumb blonde coming on), the frames are just the images yeah (like when the scene flashes to xander's face and then to anya's for her response or something)? and i will have to link them all in photoshop once i've saved them and then animate them?

[devilwrites.livejournal.com]

Good job! I grabbed the blade! :)

[amezri.livejournal.com]

The frames are the individual still images that make up an animation/movie.

I suggest linking them so that when you drag them into the new icon file, they will go over all at once and you don't have to move 30+ layers individually.

http://www.albany.edu/cetl/resources/howtos/animation.html

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/09_sep/tutorials/layeranimir0209032.htm

http://www.vrya.net/ts/photoshop.php

[hermine.livejournal.com]

Whoa! As always they are great- though I won´t take one because I´m still waiting on the movie...*sniffles* hasn´t started over here yet:(

Märrie

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ^_^ Enjoy! :D

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ^__^ LJ needs to start that paid slots thing so permanent members can get their upgrade to 20 icons :-P

Re: New icons! Ladidadida

[amezri.livejournal.com]

hehehe even though I made it, the jazz hands crack me up XD

[old-wp.livejournal.com]

heh I feel special now. :) Thanks for the info!

[queenmaab.livejournal.com]

mmmm...hands...methinks a new lj icon feature might just have to be-men's hands...

^_^

[amezri.livejournal.com]

LOL Go jazz hands :-D

[queenmaab.livejournal.com]

haaaannnnndddsss! ^_^

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Glad you like ^_^

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

You'll reallyl ike the movie :) I hope it comes out soon!

[chooimei.livejournal.com]

I can't stop looking at the lovely icons you made! I took both, but only using the sword one for now. Credit in the keywords :)

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! ^.^

[fyrdrakken]

I wanna borrow the "Jazz hands" icon -- though I doubt I'll use it till LJ gives us the extra 10 icons -- errg! Tired of waiting on them! Good stuff! And thanks for posting the tips on making the mini-movie icons -- I had some ideas on that but hadn't started experimenting yet, and appreciate any pointers I run across.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Feel free to snag :) And you're always welcome to ask me questions. 'Cause you'll know what I'm talking about when I answer. *snerk*

[fyrdrakken]

:Giggle: Yeah, I understand the pain of trying to give tech support to the truly clueless. (Why I refused to give my non-computer-owning grandmother any type of computer lessons...)

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Yeah.. giving grandparents computer lessons can be very frustrating...