'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]

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.