I'd really love to know how you do the effects in your icons, particularly in the Delenn "Fair" icon and in the last Londo icon. If you don't mind sharing, of course. :)
The smoothing effect is done with PSP9's Digital Camera Noise Removal thingy. Yes, that sounds weird, but since PSP9 has no blur brush, it's like the next best thing. The tutorial that taught me this technique is here. It requires some patience.
The color comes from several burn and softlight layers: light blue and beige/goldish mostly. I stop adding them once they start canceling each other out. *g*
The shine is from an aged newspaper effect: copy base, paste separate from main image, age newspaper 25, copy back, Overlay between 70 - 80% opacity. I can't remember where I learned that, but the first few times I did it, for some reason, it didn't look quite right.
Err...I hope I answered your question somewhere in all that babbling.
The color comes from several burn and softlight layers: light blue and beige/goldish mostly. I stop adding them once they start canceling each other out. *g*
The shine is from an aged newspaper effect: copy base, paste separate from main image, age newspaper 25, copy back, Overlay between 70 - 80% opacity. I can't remember where I learned that, but the first few times I did it, for some reason, it didn't look quite right.
Err...I hope I answered your question somewhere in all that babbling.