Icons 10 in 20: Kim Yu-na

[aurora_amethyst]

Preview:


I had recently found some more of Kim Yu-na's photoshoots, so I decided to icon her for this round at icons10in20. I'm really liking her Dior photoshoots lately! ^^

					Angle | Dust | Far crop | Four* | Green+pink
					High contrast | Outdoors | Stock** | Transportation | Vanilla

*Four: I wanted this icon to have a slide projector feel, but I was having a hard time find icon examples. ^^ So this was the best I could come up with. It was hard getting the file size down, though, seriously. I forgot that LJ's file size is waaaay bigger than DW's. Oh, yeah. The four refers to the four different pictures, btw.

**Stock: Her skirt was originally a black tulle skirt, but I used a stock texture for her skirt.

A L T E R N A T E S

Angle | Dust | Four | Green+pink

The gifs under the alternates are under 100kb, so they can be used on LJ but not on DW. T-T

-No hotlinking, please!
-Comments are love!
-Textless icons are NOT bases! Please do not alter them!
-Please credit aurora_amethyst or 1wonderment
-Do not claim them as your own!

Comments

[abyss_valkyrie]

That four icon is just mind-blowing!I love the idea and the execution!<3
Love the crop in angle.The far crop icon is great!The 5th icon is super pretty!
Adding the camera flashes in the transportation icon-awesome idea!

[aurora_amethyst]

D'awwww! I'm glad you liked it. When I saw the photoset (the four pictures on the left of the icons), I knew I wanted to have a slide projector effect but couldn't figure out how to do it. There weren't any tutorials. I ended up looking a video of someone using a slide projector and figured out how to do the effect.

As soon as I saw that photo, I knew it was the one I wanted to use for angle!

I wasn't sure if the photo I chose for far crop was far enough, lol! Glad you liked it! ^^

I'm glad you liked "green+pink"! I think it turned out pretty well! The petals went so well with all the flowers!

Since it looked liked she was coming out of a limosine, I thought that adding camera flashes would make it look more fun! ^^

[goblinesque]

I love how varied these all are! Green + pink is my favourite, beautiful use of colours. Snagged a few, will credit! ♥

[aurora_amethyst]

D'awwww! Thanks! ^^

Green+pink is one of my favorites, too!

Thanks for the credit! Hope you enjoy the icons! ^^

[tarlos]

Your icons are always pretty. Love whatever fonts you used on yours. Always hard to find me some good fonts to look good on icons, only got a couple out of all the one's I have. Wish I could do and had a program to do animation like that.

[aurora_amethyst]

Thanks! I'm a bit of a font hoarder, so I have a lot of fonts to choose from. I get a lot from dafont, font fabric, and various other places. There are actually quite a few places that offer free fonts.

There are a lot of tutorials on how to animate GIFs for Photoshop, but there aren't many for other programs. I have used GIMP to make simple ones like rain or snow or frame-by-frame animation. Some people edit their images in whatever photo editing program they have and then create a GIF animation in an online editor. I've never tried it, but some people like to do it that way.

[tinny]

Wow, so many animated ones! I am especially impressed by Four - I can't believe that only takes up 60KB. O_O

My other faves are Far Crop, Angle and Outdoors. I love the vibrant coloring in particular.

[aurora_amethyst]

D'awww! Thanks!

Yeah, I can't believe I was able to get "four" under 60KB (it was 59.5KB, lol!) by limiting the number of colors used. I wasn't able to use my original coloring (it's the one in the alternates, lol!) but added a gradient to limit the number of colors.

I'm glad you liked those icons. I liked how "angle" turned out but wasn't sure about the coloring for the other two!