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[aesc]

Mmmmph grrrr, I have been trying to icon this particular image:




... for the past hour and it is not working :/ I've been having horrible, horrible luck with icons since some time last year (um, October, omg)--larger projects have been going okay, but they're starting to seem kind of rote to me, like I'm doing the same thing over and over again. For inspiration I've been looking through tutorials and icons done by people much more talented than I am, but nothing seems to be working. It's incredibly frustrating to open up Photoshop and think, "oh, I finally have an idea for something" and then be utterly unable to do something as simple as color-correcting and think "Fucking hell, I'm regressing." Soon I'll be over-sharpening and abusing the Soft Light function. Fellow graphics people, what do you do in a situation like this? Give up and do something else? CRIES.

On the bright side, my new icon by tardis80 cheers me up :">

Also on the bright side, check out pollanesque. It is a cool place. It's about good food and lots of other things.

Comments

[nakedwesley.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I hate it when photoshop refuses to cooperate! Of course, I go so long between icon attempts that I forget what I did last time and therefore very rarely do the same thing twice. I photoshop by trial and error, hitting buttons until it comes out as something I like...if I'm lucky.

*worries that I am guilty of unknowingly abusing the soft light function*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I photoshop by trial and error, hitting buttons until it comes out as something I like...if I'm lucky.

So do I. There are some things I do kind of regularly, but most of the time I fling stuff together to see what works. Maybe it's the proverbial unlucky streak :/