oi, axiom_of_stripe and darthrami --

[fox]

how's this?



(i'd like alicia, please, which is the top right-hand corner)

for dargie:



available to good homes:





still looking for a good shot of fraser with the bandage on his head.

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Hooch!

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

:-D She is mine. I steel her. Bwahahaha.

dargie got hers - I e-mailed them to her just before you put this up, actually, and she put it up on her lj. :-D

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

they're faboo, btw

[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

Stealing "I was dead at the time..."

The WOmen with Brooms thing is cute...

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

cmshaw's idea. i just ran with it. :-)

[jgesteve.livejournal.com]

Well then... well executed...

Also, you're going to come to the Pampered Chef thing on Saturday, right? *bats eyelashes* to support Nisha, right? *bats eyelashes* if you do I'll try and move you off your current Sunday night team... *dangles carrot*

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[darthfox.livejournal.com]

if you do I'll try and move you off your current Sunday night team...

oooh, you don't make things easy. unfortunately, i have a thing at 3:00 until Some Time Later, so it doesn't look likely. unless the PC thing is earlier in the afternoon?

[dargie.livejournal.com]

Oooh girl, you give good icon! Many thanks for those yummy Luther ones.

[glasshouseslive.livejournal.com]

Yum, I'll take the Muse pic. I have an icon I made from that pic, but the shadowing and 'muse' make it tons better!

The Gandalf is really funny.

[sithdragn.livejournal.com]

Not fandoms I'm into, but I had to say they're great. Some nice artistic crops with the LOTR pics, too. Faboo!

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

[selfish]could I have the pippen one, too? [/selfish]

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[darthfox.livejournal.com]

you can, but let me fix it this evening. i know it can be better.

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[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll hold off, then. :-D

[axiom_of_stripe]

ooh, pretty! i like how the gandalf turned out in particular.

i still can't get my original "women with brooms" icon to stay legible when i save it as a jpeg -- could i get you to help me with that, at some point?

who's the gryffindor gal in the lower left corner? i like the lighting on her. :)

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[darthfox.livejournal.com]

on the lower left is katie johnson. (the one who's neither angelina nor alicia, dontcha know.) the lighting pleases me; for those pictures, i merged the layers and then did an auto-adjust levels, which kept the text quite bright but made the coloring in the image itself a little more stark. (they had, of course, been pleasantly warmly-lit crops from that team photo. i'm thinking of making "men with brooms" icons of the boys.)

wrt your original WWB icon: can i describe what i did in photoshop, and if you're using some other program you're smart enough to apply it to whatever options you have?

if you still have the thing saved in layers, work with the picture layer; use the "airbrush" tool and make your brush slightly larger than the height of the text in the text layer (my original images were about 300 px square, and my airbrush was soft round 65 px). airbrush the picture behind where the text is going to go, and then fade the airbrush to about 70%. switch to the "sharpen" tool, make the brush a little smaller (i used soft round 45 px), select the layer with the text on it, and make one pass over the text[1] with the sharpen tool. merge the layers. shrink to 100 px. with the airbrush behind it, the text ought to pop a lot better.

[1] this assumes, of course, that you've done a good job deleting the white space around the edges of the words. if you've done a crummy job, i'll lend you my gif. :-)

if you don't still have the thing saved in layers, you're screwed; i'll try to get my hooks into that crop of the chick flying and make you a new one tonight. [g]