Reminder, voting Challenge #119, and Challenge #120
Quick reminder that voting for Challenge #119 will end when I get to my computer tomorrow morning (Friday).Meanwhile you still have a somewhat unusual double challenge in Challenge #120. I'm hoping for...
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Winners Challenge #119
Congratulations to this week's winners:First place: pensnestSecond place: wunderkind_lucyCongratulations, wunderkind_lucy, it is now your duty to write up a tutorial for your winning icon by midnight...
View ArticleChallenge #119: your thoughts on the challenge
An opportunity for you to give your thoughts on the challenge image, what aspects of it you may have found easy or hard to icon, and anything else you'd like to bring up.I should probably have posted...
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #119, by wunderkind_lucy
Made in Photoshop CS5Going from this: to this: I used this image from Kristen Dunst's Marie Antoinette photoshoot. Crop, resize, etc. It's okay if the resized image is smaller than 100x100 because the...
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #119, by pensnest
This icon was made in Photoshop CS5 on a Mac. It uses Curves, mostly.I thought one of the most interesting things about this challenge was the variety in cropping. I did several different ones myself,...
View ArticleReminder, Challenge #120
Challenge #120 still awaits your entries, and is open until midnight on Saturday. Anyone?
View ArticleChallenge #120 - last minute reminder
I was all set to give up on Challenge #120, but someone has entered! I'll probably not be putting up the voting until around 2pm tomorrow, so you have a few hours... go for it!PS If anyone has...
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Voting, Challenge #120
Many thanks to the entrants who made this into a competition instead of a display. :-)The source picture:By dpawatts. Click to enlarge.Challenge 120, part ONE: The Icon Challenge:Please vote for your...
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Challenge #121
Sorry this is late—I really wasn't sure if it was worth putting one up, but am encouraged to do so.After prowling through quite a lot of Halloween images I couldn't decide between these two, so you get...
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The Halloween challenge is supposed to close this Sunday morning, so that you'll still have time after the voting to use the Halloween icons you make if you want to. So far, no entries. I can of course...
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Winners, Challenge #120
I'm not doing banners for this one, since unfortunately the winner of both icon and texture challenges was me (icon #5 and texture #1). I'll put tutorials up as soon as I have a chance.I would like to...
View ArticleReminder, Challenge #121
Challenge #121 is open until midnight-your-time this Saturday. Anyone for Halloween icons?Four entries so far.
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #120 (icon) by pensnest
This icon was made in PS5 on a Mac, and uses a Curves layer.It's very simple, and I think having that 'tranquillity' text is what makes it. But there's also the matter of cropping. This first pic...
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #120 (texture) by pensnest
This set was made in PS5 (on a Mac), using basically Filters and Layer Modes. The specifics may not be available in other programs or versions of Photoshop, but the general method is available to...
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Invitational Tutorial, Challenge #120 (texture) by wunderkind_lucy
Made in Photoshop CS5Going from this: to this: First, I started out with this image. Resize, crop, etc.Duplicate the base, and gaussian blur it at a radius of 1. (You will need your base several...
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Texture tutorial Challenge #120
I was invited to do a tutorial for either or both of the texture sets I made for Challenge 120 and since I couldn't decide which texture set to make a tutorial for so I made one for both. In order not...
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Voting, Challenge #121
The images for this challenge:And here are the entries:Please vote for your TWO favourites in order of preference (there will be one banner awarded). Voting is not weighted for the first count, but if...
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Voting for Challenge #121 will end tomorrow morning - don't forget to vote for your favourites.
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Winner, Challenge €121
Congratulations to this challenge's winner, immortalje.immortalje, I'm sure you already know the drill: it is now your duty to write up a tutorial for your winning icon by midnight on Saturday 12th...
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Challenge #122
You may enter ONE or TWO icons for this challenge. Comment to this post with your icon(s) and their url(s). Please don't use these icons before the voting is completed. All submissions should, of...
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Challenge #122 is open until next weekend, don't forget to get your entries in.Note: if LJ is proving problematic when you come to enter, you can use the mirror community on Dreamwidth,...
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Challenge #122 is open until midnight-your-time on Saturday, don't forget to get your entries in.
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Challenge #123
This will be the last challenge of this year, as my own timetable is filling up crazily as Christmas nears, and that's probably true for many of you, too.It's another 'find your own pics' challenge,...
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A quick reminder that Challenge #123 is all about PENGUINS, and who doesn't love penguins? You have at least another week in which to enter.Also, don't forget that if there are problems on LJ, you can...
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Challenge #121, by immortalje
So, I won first place in Challenge 121 back in November and never actually got around to creating a tutorial for it since I ended up being busy with rl. So thanks to pensnest for letting me post this...
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