#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

[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