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Hey, no avoiding your challenge fics! ~~even though I'm in no place to say anything, considering I'm currently avoiding my own fic~~ I mean...what? *halo*

Yeah, anyway...meme time! :P

1) Top five things you'd like to see happen between Jack and Renee in S8.
2) Your top five favorite songs at the moment.

(I hope it's okay that I asked about more than one thing.)

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So I'm not the only one avoiding fic, huh? That makes me feel slightly less guilty. I just couldn't get in the zone tonight. Anyway! You picked some doozies. I'll give it a shot.

Top five things I'd like to see happen between Jack and Renee in S8.

1) ~~Have sex~~ make out in a well-lit space conducive to massive icon creation.
2) Choose to trust each other when all the evidence suggests it's a bad idea.
3) Have multiple moments of Team Awesomeness, where they kick ass together, just the two of them.
4) Have at least one moment from each of them where they completely freak out about the other's well being.
5) See each of them genuinely smile (preferably at each other;), even if it's just one time.

And my brain is getting fuzzy! So I'll think on the songs. That's even harder, but fun:)

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OMG PERFECT!!! I'm speechless. That list is made of awesome. Especially the "massive icon creation" part. I've been trying to make new season 7 icons, but unfortunately there are very few usable frames of the two of them together. That must be corrected in season 8! :)

My brain is getting fuzzy too, trying to picture all that goodness. :D

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Dude I am completely flipping out at how few times they're both in the frame. And it's even more rare to have them looking at each other. All the eye sex happens when they're bouncing back and forth, and while that's super fun to watch onscreen, it doesn't make for good icons! GAH. It's driving me nutty, especially now that I'm slowly (very slowly) learning to use photoshop a bit more.

*sighs in exasperation*

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Dude I am completely flipping out at how few times they're both in the frame. And it's even more rare to have them looking at each other.
I know, what's up with that?? Was the cameraman not a shipper? I love the eye sex, but can't it be shot in one frame? I also hate the fact that they spent so many episodes apart. The phone calls were nice, but I don't want them in season 8. No, they need to be together ALL THE TIME.

It's driving me nutty, especially now that I'm slowly (very slowly) learning to use photoshop a bit more.
Me too, it's so frustrating. For example this icon:

I think it's the only frame of them together in the entire episode (or even until ep. 16), but it's too dark and I can't make it work. :/

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Ooh challenge! That's from 7x13, right? The convo where Larry's off to Renee's right? Now you have me wanting to mess with it. Just what I totally need to be doing when I'm packing for a two week out of state vacation;) Hee!

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It is! Here's the screen cap:

Hehe, packing for vacation or making a Jack/Renee icon? That's a tough call! :)

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Wow harsh shadows. Yeah. Well I'm gonna mess with this later tonight just for fun, because I'm having such a blast doing horrible things with photoshop because I have no clue what I'm doing. But as much as I Love Larry, we definitely have to get HIM out of there;)

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Yeah, poor Larry has to go...

Doing horrible things with photoshop, haha. I know what you mean. But the more you mess with it the more cool options you discover. And there are great tutorials out there, I can link you when you have time. :)

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Ooh! I'd love to have the links. I tend to kind of hit the work on PS when I have spare moments, and I totally suck. But I did have fun picking a slightly different screencap from the same scene and I came up with this icon. I'm so goofy:) I still haven't even learned to chop them out perfectly, but I'm improving. Very very slowly. Some of the stuff you can do on there totally blows my mind.

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Ooooo I like that icon!! And the text. :) And I think it's very well cropped! It's difficult to create an exact square, I usually crop far too wide and then have to chop the sides.

Here are some great tutorials I've used. Some of them are a lot of work and pretty scary at first, but I learned so much from trying them out, about layers, lighting, coloring etc. :)

http://community.livejournal.com/sealings/784.html
http://guilty-icons.livejournal.com/25663.html
http://guilty-icons.livejournal.com/25915.html
http://dusty-memories.livejournal.com/12002.html
http://community.livejournal.com/endelyn/18026.html

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Holy crap just looking at those fraks my brain. However, they look super helpful, so thank you very much for linking me up. I haven't tried anything that in depth in terms of actually playing with color numbers, etc. At the moment, I have what's more or less PS lite -- it's called Photoshop Elements. So I'm not sure how the tutorials would relate to that program. I'm definitely going to check it out in more depth when I get back from vacation though. One of the things I love about PS is how you can brighten a picture, taking it from barely visible to highly cool-looking. However, the tutorial people obviously know how to do this much better than I do!

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You're very welcome. :) I haven't tried PS Elements, but I think these tutorials can be helpful even if you don't follow them exactly.

One of the things I love about PS is how you can brighten a picture, taking it from barely visible to highly cool-looking. However, the tutorial people obviously know how to do this much better than I do!
I know! I'm always amazed at what you can achieve with that program. I wish I was as skilled and creative as the tutorial people. Maybe if I have enough good caps to practice on next year... ;)

By the way, here's another tutorial I tried yesterday:
http://community.livejournal.com/__iconic_/2376.html

I used this picture:

To make this icon:

Pretty neat, right? :)

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Wow. Yeah that is pretty neat. I can't wait to have some time to fool around with it. Thanks so much for all the links! I'll cross my fingers that I can understand the instructions when I get to them.

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adkal;dkas;ldas, I love it. *flails* This = best list ever. I should send it in to the 24 writers. :P

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*sobs* If only I thought they'd listen. . .

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Okay! My top five favorite songs at the moment. That is HARD, because I'm a complete music addict. But here goes:

1) The Pearl -- Emmylou Harris. Because it's just my favorite song ever of all time.
2) Blue Rodeo w/ Sarah McLachlan -- What Is This Love. I go in fits of obsession with this one.
3) Dido -- See the Sun. I'm embarrassed that I listen to this, but yeah.
4) Syntax -- Pride. I can't stop listening to this at the moment. It will pass, but right now. . .
5) Rickie Lee Jones -- Running From Mercy

Hoosh. That was hard! It changes all the time. But I'd go with those for the moment.

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Yeah, I'm a music addict, too. XD I'll go through periods of time where I'm obsessed with a certain group of songs at a time, and then I'll move on to another bunch...but then there are some songs that I'm always obsessed with, no matter what.

Word to #4! :D That's on my list, too. And #1 is so pretty. I don't know the other three, though- maybe I'll look those up. ^^ I don't think I've actually heard anything by Sarah McLachlan (that I know of) which is weird because I feel like she's one of those singers that everyone knows. >.>

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I don't think I've actually heard anything by Sarah McLachlan

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Frak me! I have every last one of her CDs. No really. Every one. Even the Christmas one. OMG she is just *words fail me*. You don't know Possession? Yikes. I'm overcome with the desire to email you like eight million of her songs. I have to control myself. You see how I have music issues? The Rickie Lee Jones is also fabulous. I made a video to it, but stupid youtube yanked it for copyright infringement. Lame!

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I'm really amused by the fact that your keymash almost has "whore" in the middle of it. XD

But yeah, I don't think I've ever heard anything by her...if you'd like to email me some of her songs, that'd be awesome! I'll message you my email address.

And I love your new icon! It made me laugh.

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