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36 old and new icons!

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:44:55 GMT

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30 seconds to mars // battlestar galactica // fight club
general hospital // king arthur // lost // stargate atlantis
the kills // twilight // the yankees

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*i'm thinking of shutting down this community. if so, i need suggestions for places i could possibly post my icons. i would be grateful for any help.

36 icons!

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:26:33 GMT

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breaking bad // btvs // dr who // gh //
joan jett // lost // potc // skins //
smallville // star wars // supernatural

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A fluff post. 9 icons!

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:11:04 GMT

Yes. I know this is an icon community and for that reason I am reposting some GIANTS icons I had previously made plus some new ones to even things out. But I just needed to take some time out to celebrate this IMMENSE victory. Everyone said it couldn't be done. The Patriots were going to have a perfect season (only the 2nd time this has happened). And I believed from the beginning. The Giants have pulled off what I say is THE BIGGEST UPSET IN SUPERBOWL HISTORY! Now they're world champions.

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28 icons!

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:32:17 GMT

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angel, stargate atlantis
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stargate atlantis, elephant, the giants
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the giants, juno
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juno, la femme nikita
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la femme nikita, lilly allen, lost
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miscellaneous, skins
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skins, the oc
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notes: these are icons of some of my favorite things, including my favorite show of all time, la femme nikita. i contemplated doing icons of heath ledger, but i didn't have the heart. i've loved him since '97 when he appeared on a little low budget show called roar. anyway, the point is r.i.p heath ledger, you will be missed.

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Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:42:02 GMT

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barack, hillary, heroes, guiliani
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samantha who, veronica mars
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pro-democrat political
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pro-democrat, t-shirt
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t-shirt
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*time to show my political colors i suppose. sorry if it offends. everything else is suppose to be funny.
*i'm open to making political icons for you, just tell me what you want. nothing pro-republican for the '08 elections. sorry.

28 icons!

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:17:02 GMT

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01 the beatles // 02-02 bobbie // 03-03 bourne identity // 04-05 doctor who
06-06 friday night lights // 07-08 lost // 09-10 little miss sunshine // 11-12 my chemical romance
13-13 mcfly // 14-14 model // 15-20 miscellaneous // 21-21 paramore
22- 22 POTC // 23-24 prison break // 25-26 robin hood (BBC)
27-27 the white stripes // 28-28 zooey deschanel //

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requests:11-12, 23-24, 25-26
softlyforgotten
muse_juice
lil_chanteuse

suggestion box: 27
sugarquilll

*i've NEVER been so frustrated posting icons. between my computer freezing, photobucket not working, and lj beeing a COMPLETE pain in my ass, it's taken me 4, yes, FOUR hours to put up these icons!! *sigh* on the bright side i'm done with finals, etc. and i can make more frequent updates.

comment and make my suffering worth while, lol!

Tutorial 01: How to make an icon look original

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 07:36:11 GMT

Want to make a boring b&w picture more interesting? Want to be a little more creative?

How to go from this: to this: in 9 steps.

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This is the first tut I've put together as requested by lil_chanteuse. It involves use of the lasso tool so beacause of that, I'll put the level of difficulty at intermediate. Everything else is pretty simple though. I hope I'm clear. If not, ask as many questions as you'd like and hopefully I can answer them. Done in CS3, but I'm sure its translatable.

Step 1
Take a picture, in this case we're using this one:

Step 2
Cut out Peter from the picture by using either the pen, lasso, or eraser tool. I use the magnetic lasso tool so here's how I did it.
Go to your tool box and drag ur mouse down to the lasso tool. Right click it and pick magnetic lasso tool. This tool works by clinging to the edges of the subject that u would like to cut out. It may take a few hit and misses before u have a complete understanding of the tool, but try it out anyway.

Step 3
First, you might want to zoom in the picture. I zoomed in by 400%.
Start by clicking the point where u'd like to begin cutting. Keep dragging the lasso around his entire body (or simply his head, because we'll be focusing only on his head.) As you drag your mouse, the lasso will cling best to the points where colors are easily distinguishable. For the parts where the face or body fades into the background u will have to click the points u want it to stick to. After u fininish making the points around Peters body, click the point where u started. Once you click that point, the lasso tool will stop clinging and connect all your points. Now u can use photoshop normally.
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Step 4
Click Select and go down to Modify then choose Feather (or press Alt+Ctrl+D). The feather tool feathers the edges of a subject that u have selected and are about to cut. In this case we have lassoed and selected Peter's body (or head) to be cut. A box will have popped up and u will type in either 2 or 1 pixels. The bigger the number, the more the edges will be feathered and vice versa. I typed in 1 because I do not want the edges of Peter's body featherd too much. However, if u think u haven't really done a good job of lassoeing Peter's body, then type in 2...or even 3 pixels. Click OK.

Step 5
Once u select okay, you will go to Edit and click on Cut (Ctrl+X). Make a new 100x100 image, go back to Edit and click Paste (Ctrl+V). The lassoed image of just Peter should appear.

Step 6
Clean soften the opacity of your eraser brush (90% should do it) and carefully erase any excess stuff that might've been cut with Peter's body. After you're done with that, go to Image, scroll down to Rotate Canvas and click on Flip Canvas Vertical. Once u've hit that, Peter should be upside down.

Step 7
Go to the Layer palette and click on the Background layer. Now look on the bootom of the Layer palette (where the little pictures are) and click on the Create New layer button (which is next to the little garbage can). Once u have that new layer u can fill it with any color that's not too dark. In this case I used a bright shade of red (#dd0f00).
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Step 8 (you can skip this)
I used this texture, by meivocis, and put it on Color Burn. You can leave the opacity at 100% if you'd like but in my icon I had it at 31%.

Step 9
Last, click on the layer that has Peter. Select Multiply. Then you just put the head (or body) where you want it and POOF, a really original looking icon.
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24 icons!

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:06:20 GMT

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01 american beauty // 02-03 buffy // 04-05 christian bale // 06-07 gossip girl
08-09 house // 10-10 kill bill // 11-11 lost // 12-12 mary-kate olsen
13-14 model // 15-15 the office // 16-16 paramore // 17-18 random
19- 22 supernatural // 23-23 the ramones // 24-24 zooey deschanel

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*sorry for the delays. next post will be the requests.

Thank You!

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:34:35 GMT

chocolatejewels has 100 WATCHERS!!!

i just wanted to thank everyone who is watching this community. i genuinely like making icons so i don't need much encouragement, but your comments do help, lol! anyway to celebrate this moment, i'm making it so that the requests are unlimited. that is to say, u can post as many pics as u want. i might not necessarily icon all the ones u give, but i'll do at least 2 for each person. i'm about to make another update so the requests won't be in the next batch, but in the post after next, lol!

Thank you again, and please do spread the word of this community along!

A special thanks to ifitsnotlovefor mentioning me in iconpraise.

I'm back!

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:02:57 GMT

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actors: audrey,jensen,mary-kate,milo, ryan/reese, sean

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models: boyd

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movies: harry potter

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music: beck, gwen, paramore, maroon 5, p!atd

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tv shows: btvs, dr.who, dexter, gh, gossip girl, veronica mars

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i'm trying out a new format for posting my icons. enjoy!

45 icons!

Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:07:09 GMT

008: becky lou filip
004: the black donnellys
004: doctor who
004: fall out boy
006: lost
009: mary-kate olsen
004: rafael nadal
004: transformers

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An update!

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:56:02 GMT

hi folks! i hope everyone is having a wonderful day and also, a big shoutout to all those celebrating their birthdays in august. just came back from a little trip upstate. anyway, the main reason for this update is so all of u can comment here on what u'd like to see iconed. just fill in the little sample thingy below so i can get an idea of what u guys would like to see. if u want, u can even leave pics. be a picspam whore (cringes at the w word, lol). this doesn't mean i'll put everything up, but at least i'll see what or who u guys want.

person:
show:
movie:
band:
pic:

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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:10:11 GMT

so this took a little longer than I would have liked, but here are the requests from 2 weeks ago and the interest icons requested last sunday. i hope u guys like them. please make sure to comment if ur name appears on the small list above the icons. and uhhh....because i didn't specify it before, all icons are shareable. i also took some of my own creative liberties with text and things. now...i must get back to harry potter! enjoy :]

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01-03: muse_juice
04-07: softlyforgotten
08-09: bluepurple3
10-12: omfg____hxc
13-14: twinkletrees
15-16: bluepurple3
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*if u aren't sure who some of the ppl are in the icons, just ask and i'll tell.