Heyyy, I'm really hoping someone can help me out here.

How do you achieve the look in the following icons?




Particularly the second one, how her eyes and lips stand out. How is that done? I use Photoshop CS3. Please explain in dummy terms lol

Gossip Girl (3.11 Treasure of Serena Madre): 1-28, 1 header
Anna Kendrick: 29-51
Disney/Christmas Stock: 52-116, 1 header

+ Credit to imamonsterr or socialxscene is required.



here @socialxscene (must join to see graphics).

Alice.

Wasn't bad. Could have been better. If it had been longer, it would have been better.

I'm a fan of vast, complex, and super-developed worlds and characters so to have Lewis Caroll's character be kind of reduced to mere caricatures of their originals was disappointing. The whole idea of Wonderland as it may be 143 years after the events of the novel take place is a really intriguing concept and one that could have been played for so much more value than I felt it had been in this miniseries.

I think I expected something...well...creepier. There's this pervasive undertone of not-quite-right-ness in the original story that just didn't seem to exist in Alice, the miniseries. Not to ignore the degradation of Wonderland, but that destruction was obvious whereas the slightly sinister tone of the original was more a ...suggestion... and other than a too short glimpse at some refugees and a slight look into the resistance, there wasn't enough exploration of Wonderland itself beyond what seemed to be forced attempts to create a parallel to 2007 successful Wizard of Oz reinvention, Tin Man; two worlds commonly perceived to be places of wonder turned to ruin, their people subjugated at the hands of a wicked tyrant (in both cases women...hmmmmm...), two willful heroines destined to be the saviors of both lands.

I suppose I should be happy there are women with power here. And I guess I am, but I also wish Alice had been...better.

Why wasn't the Mad Hatter mad? He seemed...normal. Isn't that strange? Shouldn't that have been slightly rethought? I mean, they couldn't have made him even slightly weirder than the average love interest? I would have even been happy with a sly riddle or two.

The cat was appropriately creepy. I wish the whole show had gone with that level of creepiness 'cause when that cat grinned, I wanted to run and hide and shudder. Evil.....but not. See? Creepy.

And Alice? Alice was fine. I suppose it helps that I found this actress infinitely more capable than Zooey Deschenel (DG in Tin Man) who made watching that show nearly impossibly at times. I figure she was given a black belt in some unnamed martial art so as to quiet the whispers of displeasure sure to abound every time she needed to be saved by one of her compatriots 'cause it sure as hell wasn't for the potential for riveting fight sequences.

Aaaaaaaaand the ending. Happy as predicted. Wonderland saved. Alice back home. Alice gets Hatter.

If I must accept it, I suppose it's really not that hard a pill to swallow. It was an enjoyable show at the very least. I may even watch it again....the Hatter really wasn't bad. Kind of cute Which is never not a reason to watch something again.

...

I see you judging me. Cut that out.

This is kind of an odd problem that I've never seen here before.

I use Photoshop CS2.

Somehow, I don't know how, I managed to mess up my save dialog box and now it's huge. There is no minimize button to make it smaller, so I'm wondering if anyone knows of a keyboard combination that will get it to go back to it's regular size because this huge size is really annoying.

The dialog box to open a file is huge as well.

Example: click the thumbnail


Thank you for any help.

I don't really remember if I posted this here or not. If I did, I'll erase it, but ...

Preview:


HERE

Parade

Comment to this post with your themed icon (or icons if you have multiple claims) sometime within the 48 hour period.

Please include the following:

Claim:
# of completed icons thus far: #/100
Icon Post:

Subject: combinations of Kirk, Spock, McCoy (TOS)
Batch: 54/100 so far
Themes: includes Betrayed, Choices, Friend, Honor, Laughter, Lost...etc.

Rules for nicking and crediting after the (fake) cut.

Preview:




The rest HERE at my LiveJournal.

That's my first upload, as you can see , and... I hope you like the icons I'm posting. I did them today and they're from the newest Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. c:

Some of them:




You can see the rest here at kure_indreams

That's my first upload, as you can see , and... I hope you like the icons I'm posting. I did them today and they're from the newest Disney movie The Princess and the Frog. c:

Some of them:




You can see the rest here at kure_indreams

I'm been trying to get back into fanfic writing and icon making, so I come baring a tiny batch of dipping-toe-in-water fic (Watson/Druitt now, but will eventually be a series of drabbles on the OT5) and icons (Amanda). I'll never get better without feedback, so please bring your constructive crit to the table. Thank you! :)

Size: 100x100
Type/Theme/Description: Old Parchment textures
Colors: light and dark shades of brown



Follow the fake cut to download

ICONS:
-Smallville [11]
-Aladdin [04]
-Beauty and the Beast [05]
-Hercules [03]
-Erica Durance [12]
-Gilmore Girls [02]
-Lauren Graham [20]
-Star Trek XI (2009) [50]
-Psych [01]
-Ella Enchanted [01]

GIFS:
-Smallville [01]
-Beauty and the Beast [01]
-Aladdin [01]
-Gilmore Girls [01]

BANNERS/HEADERS:
-Star Trek XI (2009) [11]
-Smallville; Clana [01]

WALLPAPER:
-Star Trek XI (2009) [2, the 2nd has 9 variations)

PREVIEW:


CHECK THEM OUT HERE @ charming_design

ICONS:
-Smallville [11]
-Aladdin [04]
-Beauty and the Beast [05]
-Hercules [03]
-Erica Durance [12]
-Gilmore Girls [02]
-Lauren Graham [20]
-Star Trek XI (2009) [50]
-Psych [01]
-Ella Enchanted [01]

GIFS:
-Smallville [01]
-Beauty and the Beast [01]
-Aladdin [01]
-Gilmore Girls [01]

BANNERS/HEADERS:
-Star Trek XI (2009) [11]
-Smallville; Clana [01]

WALLPAPER:
-Star Trek XI (2009) [2, the 2nd has 9 variations)

PREVIEW:


CHECK THEM OUT HERE @ charming_design

Hi! My first time here! and I was wondering how can I make this effect:

or

I like so much the lines around Kyuhyun and Shin Hye... someone can Help me?
I use photoshop cs and cs3 or GIMP :3~

Thanks very much :3

Wrote this for Camy because, well she does so much for me and she's like the BIGGEST JT fan ever. She wanted me to post and she has posted on Beya but I thought I would post here as well. Not one of my best, but she loved it and that's all that counts! Let me know what you think.


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