'Cause I'm a sheep meme

[leigh57]

Because lowriseflare is my beta wingman and an all around awesome person, I wanna be just like her. So I can't resist posting this meme.

Ask me my top five [whatevers]. Any top fives. And I'll answer them all in a new post.

Also, it will be a good way to avoid writing the challenge fics I should be working on, right? Hee hee. *headdeskslam*

ETA -- Two Things: 1) Hillary Clinton rocks. I just watched a half hour interview of her with Fareed Zakaria and almost cried. She's brilliant and articulate and intelligent and awesome and incapable of being ambushed and just! Ahem. 2) I will actually probably just answer the fives in a response, because I don't want to spam everybody if I do manage to get a challenge fic done here or there. Heh. Big if.

Comments

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

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*

[alwaysashipper.livejournal.com]

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. :/

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

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!

[alwaysashipper.livejournal.com]

It is! Here's the screen cap:



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

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

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;)

[alwaysashipper.livejournal.com]

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. :)

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

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.

[alwaysashipper.livejournal.com]

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

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

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!

[alwaysashipper.livejournal.com]

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? :)

[leigh57.livejournal.com]

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.