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wcollar20in20 is on. Here's your teaser. I signed up for episode "What Happens in Burma".
10 THEMES
5 CATEGORY – Crops
5 ARTIST'S CHOICE
Original screencap used for "Crops" (5 different crops of the same image):
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wcollar20in20 is on. Here's your teaser. I signed up for episode "What Happens in Burma". 10 THEMES
| Accessory | Actor | Black & White | Faceless | Green |
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| Outside | Plus One | Sideways | Smile | Text |
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| #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 |
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| Artist's Choice #1 | Artist's Choice #2 | Artist's Choice #3 | Artist's Choice #4 | Artist's Choice #5 |
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Original screencap used for "Crops" (5 different crops of the same image):
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killmotion. Image for "Actor" from mattbomerfan.com. Lyrics used in "Faceless" are from Rihanna's Skin.
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Date: 2011-03-08 07:24 am (UTC)I think part of my problem is that I use Corel PhotoPaint, and not Adobe Photoshop like most everyone else who does serious graphics editing. I think PhotoPaint just lacks a few functions/effects that Photoshop has, which is probably why there are certain things I usually don't do with my icons that other people frequently use. You know, like color and light blobs and that kind of thing. PhotoPaint can do them too, but I'm never all that happy with them. Maybe I just need to use that feature more to get the hang of it. The font features in PhotoPaint could also be better...
I also don't use textures such a lot, because mainly it takes an extra effort to look for a suitable texture for the icon. And you're right about the color schemes. I, too, am partial to blues and purples.
And I still learn new things all the time. I only started icon designing at the end of last year. (Truthfully, the appeal of it had alluded me until then -- which has obviously now changed considerably.)
So, anyway, I'm just going to keep making more icons. Practice makes perfect, right? I also try to let me be inspired by what others do and try to create similar effects.
That said, I can't wait to see what you'll come up with for round 8! :o)
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Date: 2011-03-09 07:09 am (UTC)Just like you've never used PhotoPaint, I've never seriously used Photoshop. I have installed it out of curiosity once, but I didn't take more than a cursory glance. I know enough that it's similar to PhotoPaint, but the buttons and menus are different and also called differently sometimes. I'm sure that if I put my mind to it, I could use it just as well as PhotoPaint, but it'd be a learning curve. So why make the effort when I'm happy with PhotoPaint?
All the functions you mentioned in Photoshop, I use those too quite often. Layers are called objects in PhotoPaint, but they're the same thing. I often use the Exclusion function, sometimes screen, hue or overlay. PhotoPaint has an Image Adjustment Lab that I use a lot for brightening/contrast/color hue. There's also a really cool plugin I use a lot, called Virtual Photographer by OptikVerve Labs. I think it works in Photoshop too.
Virtualkaty and sallyna_smile are icon gods. I am so in awe. LOL
I've been doing graphics editing for years, just never on a small scale like working in a 100x100 pixel space. I started out making wallpapers, collages and webdesign, now I still do that sometimes, but it's more editing of my digital photos. I bought an SLR camera in 2008 and love using it.
Btw, this is the first time I'm participating in an icon challenge comm, and it's been so much fun! I also do two other WC challenge comms on occasion, but one of them just closed down due to too few submissions.
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Date: 2011-03-13 09:52 pm (UTC)My first language is German. I have a few German friends on my flist, so you might read comments in German here sometimes. All my entries are in English, though. I write a lot of White Collar fanfic too, all in English.
I've actually looked at GIMP because I was curious. I found it quite user-unfriendly, I must say. I think I was trying to do a transition gradient with it, and it took me ages to figure out how to do it. In PhotoPaint it's just two clicks. In GIMP it was like you needed to read a whole manual first before you even grasped the concept of how to do it. Maybe it was just me being stupid, but that kinda turned me off, wishing to use GIMP more. I still think it's cool that there's a halfway decent photo editing freeware out there.
I'm not sure if there's another program that uses objects rather than layers. Not that I think it really matters. Essentially, it's the same thing, just called differently.
I love playing with the exclusion function. For me, it works best with the dark colors. I use it quite a lot.
As for Virtual Photographer, I can't tell you how to make it work with Photoshop because I have no clue how to import plugins into the software. I could tell you how to do it in PhotoPaint, but that won't help you. In PhotoPaint, it shows up in the Plugins menu. And I think it's pretty self-explanatory, once you've added it to the plugins. Basically, what it does is that it applies different color and b/w filters (kinda like presets) to your image.
What do *I* do with it? Well, if I know I, for instance, want to transfor a color image to b/w, I usually try running it through the different b/w filters of Virtual Photographer to see if one of them works instead of just desaturating the image and adjusting the contrast/gamma/tones myself. They don't always work, though. I don't use the color filters so much.
The only real challenge comm other than the WC 20in20 I'm a member of is
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Date: 2011-03-08 07:29 am (UTC)Because... look at my icon above and then look at yours:
;o)
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Date: 2011-03-09 06:56 am (UTC)And you're right, there are still subtle differences in our icons. The crop is also slightly different. Still, for the fact that we picked this one out of thousands of screencaps and did almost the same thing is pretty remarkable.
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Date: 2011-03-17 02:14 pm (UTC)Die sehen richtig klasse aus, tolles Colouring. (Liegt vielleicht auch meinem neuen (alten) TFT Monitor - von Andreas übernommen -, dass mir auf einmal alles so leuchtend vorkommt.) ;)
Du wirst immer besser! Wünschte ich könnte das auch von mir sagen, bin total uninspiriert zurzeit.
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Date: 2011-03-17 05:41 pm (UTC)Ich merke ja auch selber, dass das mit den Icons immer besser klappt. Man probiert ja mal neue Effekte, obwohl ich auch den Eindruck habe, dass ich doch immer wieder die gleichen Funktionen anwende. Na ja, so hat dann halt jeder auch seinen eigenen Stil.
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Date: 2011-03-17 06:39 pm (UTC)Die 58 Icons für den Stargateland BigBang haben mich echt angestrengt. Bin momentan völlig ideenlos und habe das Gefühl ich wiederhole mich ständig nur. Schaffenskrise? ;)
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Date: 2011-03-17 07:43 pm (UTC)Ach, Du kriegst das schon hin mit dem neuen Monitor. Meiner auf der Arbeit hat auch eine ganz andere Farbgebung, da musste ich mich auch erstmal dran gewöhnen.
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