I'm so sorry to have gone this long without an update, but the good news is that I've gone back to the icon table generator and have debugged a bit more on what seems to be the problem. I honestly am not entirely sure what's wrong, but after a couple of updates, it looks like it works now! I suspect some weirdness on PHP's side, as it works on my local box but not on live, hee!

Basically what seemed to be happening is that it was treating a vast number of strings as, well, headings, and not images! I used to do this by checking for "http://" only on the first seven characters of the string, but for some reason on my host that seems to be returning basically nothing, instead of a zero (for headings)...I couldn't even just check for truthfulness. So in the end, I scrapped it all and just checked for "http://" anywhere in the string.

It means though, that now you can't have headings that say "Don't forget the http://!!" or some such. I don't know how often that will happen (if ever!) but there it is ^_^ That'll teach me to be too specific in what I want done by PHP... hahaha.

As always, please let me know if you come across problems. :)

Hello everyone,

I've sorted things out with my host and the icon table generator is now fixed. It was due to my host switching from using Apache to Lighttpd for their web server, and thus some settings specific to Apache were not carried over on my account. Please let me know if you continue to have problems related to the issue, i.e., instead of images, you are getting just paths/links to the icon.

For more information on what happened, this entry announcing the problem should help. I have backdated the entry so that people who have not seen the earlier entry yet won't get flooded by update posts :) Apparently I can't backdate entries in community/shared journals. I apologize for the multiple postings!

Thanks again for your patience everyone! :)

Hello everyone,

I have received all your reports about the icon table generator being broken. This is due to a server issue -- my host has changed something on my account, or put up an old backup, hence the generator is currently broken. I have contacted them and should find out shortly what the issue is, and get it fixed as soon as I am able.

I apologize for not being able to address this issue earlier. I have been on a business trip since mid-week and straight to a vacation over the weekend, and have only arrived home around two hours ago. Please rest assured I'm working to get the problem fixed.

Thanks again for your patience! :)

I capped this a long while ago (when the trailer just came out) but only got to upload these now. These are 66 1280x580 caps of all scenes in the trailer -- I went through the trailer twice with different capping speeds in order to get as many scenes as possible :)

• Comment if you like/are taking (+watch!);
• Credit eveningsky when used;
• Caps may not be placed into galleries and the like.

Some samples, click on the thumbnail to view its original size:



Download the screencaps here!

I'd discovered a new game a few days back -- Alice Greenfingers! It's a very nifty farming simulation game, similar to Harvest Moon. It's quite addicting! So I bring a few (well, 17) Alice Greenfingers icons, plus three Bookworm Deluxe icons just because. :)

• Comment if you like/are taking (+watch!);
• Credit eveningsky in icon comments/keywords (how?);
• Textless icons are not bases; and
• Resources and credits are here.

Teasers:
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I came across a new Twilight movie photo (thanks to danibef), and couldn't resist making icons from the prettiness. 5 variations of each character plus EdwardxBella and a group icon. :)

• Comment if you like/are taking;
• Credit eveningsky in icon comments/keywords (how?);
• Textless icons are not bases; and
• Resources and credits are here.

Teasers:
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( 40 Twilight icons under the cut! )

If you're someone who uses my icon table generator for your icons, you might be interested in learning that I have added two new features to it: the ability to create headings (useful for those multi-fandom icon posts!) and automatic selection of contents when you click on an input box. I hope these two new features are useful!

If you use the generator, and use a special template of yours with it, you might want to send the template to me. Submitting the template helps you so that you won't need to keep keying in your template, you get a credit link back, and others benefit from your HTML wizardry!

If the new features break for you, please feel free to let me know. :) Thanks! <3 I've also done a few updates on Bauble, mostly layout-related, as well as the inclusion of the feed of my icon community using a new version of LJ Magpie. The new version isn't out yet, but will be soon after I beta the new version for a bit.

This is my first icon tutorial, done on request, on my entry for furuba_awards week 115 a long time ago.

From to in 8 steps :)

I'm using Photoshop CS2, not sure about how it will translate to other applications.

( From now on, our troubles will be miles away )

Please feel free to let me know if the tutorial has helped you, or if additional clarification is needed on any of the above steps. You can also tell me if there's any icon I've previously done which you're interested in for another tutorial. :)

22 Twilight (movie) icons! I'm late to the fandom definitely, but I'm glad I finally did check it out. Here are a number of icons all revolving around the first promo shots -- must look for more shots, definitely. First time I'm getting back to iconing (and actually, hobby-related graphics tinkering), so these are somewhat simple.

• Comment if you like/are taking;
• Credit eveningsky in icon comments/keywords (how?);
• Textless icons are not bases; and
• Resources and credits are here.

Teasers:


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The old icons post continues! A mixed batch this time, which includes old, un-posted icons and icons I did for various icontests when I was still active in those. I'm only posting those I haven't posted previously in other batches.

(Awards post will be coming by in a while.)

In this batch:

[21] Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon
[4] Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
[3] FRIENDS
[6] Fruits Basket
[7] Harry Potter
[3] Heath Ledger
[8] Lord of the Rings
[5] Magic Knight Rayearth
[10] Miscellaneous
[10] Narnia
[10] Star Wars
[2] X/1999

Nothing's different:

• Comment if you like/are taking;
• Credit eveningsky in icon comments/keywords (how?);
• Textless icons are not bases; and
• Resources and credits are here.

Teasers:
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( 89 varied icons under here! )

I started to look through my folders and clean up a few older icons I did before I started posting new ones -- and I found 39 Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon icons! I wonder why I never got around to posting these. These are mostly manga art during the first arc, with a few much older anime icons thrown in.

The usual spiel:

• Comment if you like/are taking;
• Credit eveningsky in icon comments/keywords (how?);
• Textless icons are not bases; and
• Resources and credits are here.

Teasers:

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( 39 icons for the taking. )

I've decided to open up affiliating/link exchanges for my icon journal, with other icon creators, icon communities, and other LJ-resource journals. On this post I'll be linking back to them as well as posting a few interesting icons they have.

If you would like to affiliate, please add my link first, then comment here and I'll get back to you. :)

( Prettiful shiny affiliates! )

It's been a while since I did any icon-making! This one's a relatively small batch. I'd realized that I didn't have a reading/books-related icon, so I went and did a few so that I can pick from them. :)

As usual:

• Comment if you like/are taking;
• Credit eveningsky in icon comments/keywords (how?);
• Textless icon are not bases; and
• Resources and credits are here.

Teasers:

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( 18 icons under the cut! )

I also did a few for the What's in a Name Reading Challenge, which is an interesting reading challenge based on book titles -- you might want to check it out if you're inclined to read books. :) Icons under the cut!

( There are 5 icons under this cut! )

It's been a while since I did some iconing, but more than half of these Chronicles of Prydain (Lloyd Alexander) Livejournal icons were made much earlier but never uploaded. I added a few more just now (but I still mean to go through the rest of the covers). Everyone should check out this series of five YA fantasy books if they haven't yet read this. Love love love.

Samples:
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I'm on a bit of a roll, it seems! The most popular subjects on this icon journal are Hana Yori Dango and Pride and Prejudice ;) or maybe it's just because I have ongoing "projects" for both subjects. ;) I've been making icons on other fandoms/subjects as well, mostly for icon contests -- I'll put them up soon (and you can always prod me in the right direction if you want me to make icons of other subjects). :) For now, here's a few (lol) volume 03 icons! This is a rather dark set, as it has a lot of bad!Tsukasa in it. (There's also two past contest entries, which obviously are not from volume 03!)

SOP:

• Comment if you like/are taking;
• Credit eveningsky in icon comments/keywords (how?);
• Textless icon are not bases; and
• Resources and credits are here.

Teasers:
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Not as humongous as my last batch, I'll admit, and I think it's not as snarky. But I felt like doing one tonight/this morning (it's 3am!) so here it is -- fourth batch of icons from Mr. Collins' proposal (*gigglefit*) to Charlotte's announcing their impending marriage. Some past contest entry icons are here as well and some artsy ones. :)

The usual schtuff:

• Comment if you like/are taking;
• Credit eveningsky in icon comments/keywords (how?);
• Textless icon are not bases; and
• Resources and credits are here.

Teasers:
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( 55 icons below the cut. )

A list of the Livejournal icon contests/challenges that I've won. :) They are ordered by icon community and then by date of the win/award, with the most recent listed first. Banners/icons link back to the winning post (if available).

Last updated: 30 December 2006 (added some wins, made banners for some wins)

( Icons and banners under the cut. )

I realized I never put up my Will Vandom (from W.I.T.C.H.) mood theme, even though I finished this a long time ago when my interest in said fandom was keen. It was probably done around the same time I finished my first mood theme. :) So now I'm putting it up in case anyone is still interested. :)

Samples:




The usual stuff:

• Comment if you're taking -- I love comments!
• Credit eveningsky on your userinfo page. :)

To download the mood theme, click here.

I decided to put up a FAQ sort of post, as well as be open to whatever questions people might want to ask. :) If you have a question, please browse the list below and if your question is not answered, or you want clarification on my answer, feel free to post a comment and ask.

• How do I credit your icons?
• What resources/brushes/textures/etc do you use?
• Is your icon meme really up indefinitely?
• Will you make tutorials of how you did icons?

( Answers below the cut. )

This is a list of fandoms/subjects I am interested in personally, and may make icons for if/when I have time and enough material. You're free to voice your clamors for icons under any of these fandoms, or to clarify things, or to even suggest fandoms/subjects that I might be interested in after viewing the list below. ;)

Last updated: 08 December 2006

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