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[pensnest]

And now for something *completely* different...

I've been playing with some gorgeous brushes which came with my Photoshop Creative magazine a month or two back, experimenting with gradients and colours and blending. Fun! If you happen to fancy a bit of Art Nouveau in your LJ, please help yourself to an icon or two. Or more. Whatever. Do let me know what you've picked.

An example:

1		2		3
4		5		6
7		8		9
10		11		12

The brushes are from http://brushes.500ml.org, and are beautiful. No credits beyond the brushes themselves, as everything I did with them was on Photoshop already, but a *big* thank you to 77words for the icon table generator!

Comments

[sweetchacha.livejournal.com]

I love these! I'm taking #2. Thank you!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Wow! These are absolutely stunning! I just can't decide between # 6 and 11 so I have to take both I'm afraid :-) Will of course credit when I use them.

PS I don't think I've ever seen either of these two before, do you know who the artist is?

[joyfulseeker.livejournal.com]

These are great! Could I grab #12?

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Just lovely. I'm taking #1 and will of course credit.

[debsfarm.livejournal.com]

Nelope, they are great pics, as you can see I have done something constructive this evening and created my own id. Speak to you soon Deb

[pensnest]

You're welcome!

[pensnest]

I'm really pleased with the way they came out - had a lot of fun experimenting. I don't know who the artist is, I always think 'Mucha' when I see this stuff, but I've no idea if that's correct or not. The brush-maker might know, if you check the website.

[pensnest]

Go right ahead :-)

[pensnest]

Thank you - and you're welcome.

[pensnest]

OMGsquee!! I shall Friend you at once!

Love the piccie.

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

very cool indeed. I especially love 12, but it's hopelessly innacurate for me, so I'm not taking ;)

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely...taking #3, and thank you muchly!

[(Anonymous)]

You're welcome. :-)

[pensnest]

Taking is not required, but admiration is good.
*blush*
*am show-off*

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

The rest are almost certainly Mucha, but I don't think those two are, their lines and colouring are just not "him" somehow. Unfortunately there were no more information to be had at the brush site so I'll have to hunt further afield if I want to know.

[pensnest]

Ha - I got smart and had a closer look at the brush in question. Did you realise - it's the same brush, just cropped differently and reoriented, in the case of the icon you used for the above post! There's a full view of the brush here. As it's approx. 400x700 pixels, I can see there's a tiny 'Mucha' signature, so there you go.

Just shows what colouring can do...

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't realise it was the same at all, and it is a Mucha, which clearly shows when you see the whole thing and also isn't distracted by the distinctly un-Mucha like colours! And I'm supposed to be an art historian - okey it's 25 years ago and I've never practiced what I was taught, but still! I ought to be properly ashamed of myself, but strangely enough I'm not. Just slightly sheepish :-)

[pensnest]

The 'mystique' icon you've used looks kinda Indian to me, it wasn't intentional, it just came out with that sort of flavour, at least to the girl. Which is a bit odd, with a Mucha base... Also, the brushes have a lot more subtle colouring to them than necessarily shows up in the icons, because in many cases I removed it by upping the contrast.

I really like adding colour to monochrome images.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Those are very beautiful!

[clear-my-eyes.livejournal.com]

These are beautiful. I love the simplicity and muted colours of #5.

#1 has a faintly Indian feel to me...I think it's the rich and bold choice of colours coupled with the circular pattern (which reminds me of gold embroidery along the edge of a saree).

[pensnest]

Thanks - I'm very pleased at how they turned out.

[pensnest]

Thank you! Number one was quite by chance, in that I put a Difference layer (I think) on by mistake, and liked it... But actually, now I think about it, a lot of them incorporate happy discoveries. Photoshop is so *big*...