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After publishing my last article on the Process of Making an Icon, I got a few requests for more indepth knowledge on Blending Options, and a more explicit walkthrough of their direct usage.

Now, Blending Options are one of the first things Photoshop Novices stumble upon. The infancy of adding layer styles often leads to a short period of horrible drop shadows and cringeworthy bevels. Ironicly, this easily available styling is one of the harder things to master. Blending options is all about manipulating individual layers to obtain a certain effect. It's a key aspect of creating icons, and will help you create textures, shading and highlighting.



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I've had a few requests for insights into the process of making icons. Instead of answering individually, I've decided to make this the first subject of a range of articles to be authored  at PixelResort.com.

This won't be a tutorial or a step-by-step walkthrough, more like a general guideline based on my own experience. It's how my workflow crops up.

To illustrate the creation of an icon, I've decided to redraw my old TextEdit icon from the bottom up.



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Wow. It's been a long time since i've used my DA profile for anything else than the occational Inspirational browsing. Well, i've got some great news.

Between University assignments and Freelance work i’ve been pouring alot of time into a complete redesign of my site PixelResort.com



After launching the first incarnation of PixelResort back in November ‘07 i was overwhelmed with the positive response; visitors by the thousands, personal and work related mails from all over the world and alot of fine publicity in the blogosphere. It’s been a tremendous experience both professionally and personally, a hearty thanks to all who made this site’s infancy so special. A couple of months wiser, and more hours than i care to account for, im finally able to welcome you to this second version of PixelResort. While i cared much for the pixel’ish look of the old site, every designer must mature and constantly seek to renew and refine. This sparkling new site is a product of months of moleskin sketchin’ and coffee slurpin’ brainstorming with peers. It’s a cleaner look, more content focused, and i hope you will grow as fond of it as i have.

Everything has been build from the ground up, and the lovely wordpress has been integrated into my blog with all the features that comes with a thoroughbred CMS; archives, search, comments etc. Hopefully this will allow for a much more dynamic experience.

I will spare you the hairpulling lessons i’ve learned over the past couple of months, it’s been an interesting journey and as of now im just really excited to show you around my new home. PixelResort is no longer in it’s infancy, i think it just grew to a well combed teenager. Please have a look around the different sections, use the features, comment or mail me all you like.

Remember to subscribe to the new RSS feed, stick it in your local RSS pusher to receive updates.

It’s good to be back.

PixelResort.com has been up for exactly 1 month today. And what a month! Thank you to all who checked in at the resort, had a stroll around and brought home a few souvenirs. This past month more than 10.000 guests from more than 100 countries visited more than 23.000 pages.

I was featured at a number of blogs and webmagazines, some of the more prominent ones being:

Smashing Magazine
The Iconfactory
Intenta (Spanish Blog)

And mentioned at around 50 other sites.

A resounding thank you to all who blogged or otherwise mentioned pixelresort to their respective readers and peers.

You may have noticed a few visual changes during this past week. A new submenu at the front page, but also some other interface tweaks. Change should be constant. Hope you like them.

Tanks for making this a special month, hopefully you will continue to visit, blog and enjoy my work. I'll try to make it worth your time.