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Okay sure!
I'm not sure what program you use but I used photoshop...so I'm not sure if this technique will work in other programs..But anyway here's how it works:
1. Duplicate the image that you want to edit and set the layer mode to screen, you may have to do this a few times to make sure that it is light enough.
2. Make a new layer and fill it with a light-blueish greyish colour and set the layer mode to Exclusion
3. Make another new layer on top of this and fill it with a darker blue colour and also set it to Exclusion.
4. Merge all the layers together and then duplicate this layer and set the layer mode to multiply

And voila! I hope that makes sense....you can play around with the colour layers to see what works for the image and get really cool effects.

Author:	Luminara [ May 29th, 2006, 12:26 am ]
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Well I'm really really bored so I thought, what the heck, I'll post up some of my art stuff up here. Most, if not all, of it will be icons. I'm a total icon freak actually. Anyways, all of this stuff is already up at my website...but like I said I'm bored so I'm posting it here as well Firstly, some of my LOTR icons:

Author:	Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ May 29th, 2006, 12:39 am ]
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woahh!! theyre fabulous!! how did you do the colouring on them??

Author:	Bubble Black [ May 29th, 2006, 10:05 am ]
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Wow! Those are gorgous! The colouring is superb!

Author:	Sapphire [ May 29th, 2006, 1:21 pm ]
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Very nice Luminara...your icons are terrific!

Author:	Gwenneth [ May 29th, 2006, 2:34 pm ]
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LOVELY icons! So colorful -- I'd love to see more!

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Author:	Bowgirlwarrior [ May 29th, 2006, 4:34 pm ]
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lovely, what else you got?

Author:	Silm Loss [ May 29th, 2006, 5:21 pm ]
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Those are AMAZING!! I love the colouring and subjects chosen!!

Author:	Gilraen Ringeril [ May 29th, 2006, 8:11 pm ]
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I've seen your icons before on your website, and WOW they're great! Keep up the awesome work girl! ~Gil

Author:	Luminara [ May 29th, 2006, 8:39 pm ]
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Thanks so much guys!! Haldir, I used a tut I found on a livejournal...sorry but I lost the link!! If you want me to explain the colouring for ya let me know Okay, here is some more LOTR icons...I have a rather large batch of this stuff... Enjoy!

Author:	Taurquende [ May 29th, 2006, 9:14 pm ]
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Ooo.. very pretty! The colors make them a lot more interesting to look at! That the main reason why I never make avatars... mine always end up as just a cropped picture! But if it's not too much trouble for you, I would like to learn how to do that effect!

Author:	Luminara [ May 29th, 2006, 9:17 pm ]
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Okay sure! I'm not sure what program you use but I used photoshop...so I'm not sure if this technique will work in other programs..But anyway here's how it works: 1. Duplicate the image that you want to edit and set the layer mode to screen, you may have to do this a few times to make sure that it is light enough. 2. Make a new layer and fill it with a light-blueish greyish colour and set the layer mode to Exclusion 3. Make another new layer on top of this and fill it with a darker blue colour and also set it to Exclusion. 4. Merge all the layers together and then duplicate this layer and set the layer mode to multiply And voila! I hope that makes sense....you can play around with the colour layers to see what works for the image and get really cool effects.

Author:	Celebwen [ May 29th, 2006, 10:31 pm ]
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Ooh, the colouring is beauiful. I think I might have come across that tut, actually. Or one similar. I never really managed to get it right, though. Maybe I was just using the wrong pics. Just going through my LJ memories... was it this tut, by any chance? Probably not... I'm just guessing.

Author:	Luminara [ May 29th, 2006, 11:45 pm ]
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Sorry, I can't access the livejournal website anymore! I'm at boarding school and the school computers all block Live journal sites! Grr...anyway, its quite a popular technique I think so I'm sure there are several tuts on it!

Author:	Celebwen [ May 30th, 2006, 12:14 am ]
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Okay! That must suck.

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Author:	Aredhel Ar-Feiniel [ May 30th, 2006, 5:10 pm ]
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Luminara wrote: Okay sure! I'm not sure what program you use but I used photoshop...so I'm not sure if this technique will work in other programs..But anyway here's how it works: 1. Duplicate the image that you want to edit and set the layer mode to screen, you may have to do this a few times to make sure that it is light enough. 2. Make a new layer and fill it with a light-blueish greyish colour and set the layer mode to Exclusion 3. Make another new layer on top of this and fill it with a darker blue colour and also set it to Exclusion. 4. Merge all the layers together and then duplicate this layer and set the layer mode to multiply And voila! I hope that makes sense....you can play around with the colour layers to see what works for the image and get really cool effects. thanks!!! that was really helpful!