Icons: Costume Drama Icontest Entries

[olde_fashioned]

A miscellaneous batch of costume drama icons that I made for various icontests, including both versions of Pride & Prejudice (1995 and 2005), both versions of Sense & Sensibility, (1995 and 2008), both versions of Northanger Abbey, (1986 and 2006) as well as some from North & South, Emma, Becoming Jane, Amazing Grace, Lady Jane, and a few others. As always, please credit/comment if taking, and enjoy!

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PLEASE NOTE: Numbers are above, not below, the icons, and please tell me which icons you're taking, not "snagging a few!" because I really am of a curious nature and I'd like to know what's popular. ;-) Thanks!

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

1-8 Pride & Prejudice 1995 (#1 won 1st place @ bbc_stills, and #8 won 2nd place @ regency_stills)

9-12 Sense & Sensibility 1995
13-14 Northanger Abbey 2006
15-20 Pride & Prejudice 2005
21-22 Northanger Abbey 1986
23-24 Emma 1996
25-26 Persuasion 2006 (#26 won 3rd place @ austen_stills)
27 Becoming Jane (#27 won 2nd place @ austen_stills)
38-33 Lady Jane (#31 won 1st place and #32 won best cropping @ tudoricontest)

34-36 North & South (#34 and #35 tied for 3rd place @ bbc_stills)
37 Sense & Sensibility 2008
38 Amazing Grace 2008 (#38 won 1st place @ period_stills)
39-40 Lady Audley's Secret 2008 (#39 won 1st place @ period_stills)
41-42 Brother Grimm

Comments

[seventh-stage.livejournal.com]

oh my goodness, these are very beautiful!! very good aesthetics. May I ask, how did you do all these with paint net?

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! :-) You are very generous.

I am not really using Paint.NET anymore, since I've been using GIMP. But most of the techniques I use could easily be translated into Paint.NET. Most of the effects you see were achieved by using textures and masks, which are basically icons of glows, lights, or paper, set to screen or multiply on top of the icon itself. Does this help? :-)

[seventh-stage.livejournal.com]

(i know this was a while ago)

i'm curious about this, how does it all work; the process of texture and mask?

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

And I know this was a while ago, so apologies for the delay!

Masks are a bit more complicated, and won't really work with Paint.NET unless you either screen or multiply them, but textures are easier. Basically they're an image that you use to get the "texture" transferred onto the icon you're making. For example, if you have a scan of a piece of rough paper, paste it in a new layer above the image you're using as your icon base (let's say, a flower) and set it to a transparent mode, such as multiply, or overlay. The papery-look should be transferred to the flower below, making the flower look like an old botanical print or something like that.

Does that make sense? ;-P

P.S. I used a paper texture in the manner described above on the icon I'm using with this comment. ;-)