#15

[applepips]

1-20 Community for theiconquest Chapter One : Adventure!
21-30 Community
31-36 Harry Potter
37-40 Alison Brie
41-43 Raising Hope
44-45 Vampire Diaries
46-47 Lauren Bacall
48-49 Merlin
50-51 Fringe
52-56 Pretty Little Liars, Chuck, Sherlock, Lost, Inu Yasha

Notes : Thoughts and feelings of which I have plenty shall be posted tomorrow.

1. You were promised feelings. You shall receive them. Let's forget about the part where no one asked. I LIKE TALKING ABOUT FEELINGS.
2. I was feelings really uninspired at first with the iconquest challenge at first. I mean, whatever I tried, it all felt like a steaming pile of shit. Turned out all I needed to do was step away for awhile. I feel pretty pleased with what I have now. And I'm especially proud that I wrangled some text icons that I like. ARIAL BLACK FTW. ( I only noticed the mistake in the Annie icon now. BOO ;_;)
3. Cutting out backgrounds is fun now that I discovered how to do it. I think I will now beat this technique into the ground by overusing it.
4. For the iconquest challenge, the reason I chose Community was because : a) I LOVE THE SHOW. Any reason to icon is welcome. b) Every episode in Community is an Adventure. And because I'm nothing but literal, I picked Advanced Dungeons and Dragons to icon as well as Remedial Chaos Theory.
5. I will shut up now.

1-5
6-10
11-15
16-20
Rogue : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bard : 6, 7, 8, 9
Wizard : 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Hero : 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20


21-25
26-30
31-35
36-40
41-45
46-50
51-55
56



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Comments

[happy-harper13.livejournal.com]

1) These are gorgeous. I especially like 2, 4, 8, 11, 22, 32, 36, 42, 43 and 52.

2) What is this background cutting technique that you have learned?

3) Those are pretty much the best episode names I have ever heard of.

[applepips]

Thank you! Glad you like them. :D

Fishsticks. I need to rephrase that. I dont cut the background cut but I cut the character out. Anyhow, here is what I do if you still want to know. :)

I use PSP X and in that, there is the Freehand selection tool. I choose the selection type as Point to Point so that the selection takes the shape of the subject and using the trackpad of my laptop, I carefully select the subject I want to cut out. After I've selected the subject, I go to the Selections drop down menu, where I pick Modify and in Modify's drop down menu, I first select Contract. Contract cause the selection to hug the subject's lines closer. I set Contract to 1 or 2 pixels. After Contract, I pick Feather which is also in Modify drop drown menu and I set feather to 1 or 2 pixels. Feather smoothes the selection and takes out jagged edges. Then, I go to the Edit Image menu, select Cut and paste the cut out subject on a new canvas and add a background of my choice and then work on the image accordingly. Before I use to mask out backgrounds with a layer mask and I found it incredibly painstaking because my trackpad's a bit of a pain to use. Also, I didn't always have the patience to mask out all the edges. The technique I learnt recently makes it a lot easier for me so there. :)

F-Yeah. Community has some of the best episode names ever. :D