Icon meme
snarched from ladysorka. Because I'm bored and don't want to go to bed yet. (though, come think of it, going to bed now would probably be a step in the right direction in hopes of getting a head start on that whole "jet lag" thing. I am going to be spending the next week on a time zone that has a 7 hour difference from my own, after all. Maybe I'll compromise and go to bed at 11 and make myself get up at 6 or something.)
Post your very first icon that you made (if you have it, if you don't, the OLDEST one that you have) along with your newest icon. This will allow you to show how you have improved in iconing skills and tag five friends to see how they have improved.
Ah, yes... the good ol' days before Fandom had taken over my life. Creative, no? I took one of my many fantasy pictures, squared out the part I wanted, resized it down to 100x100 pixels, and added words in Bible Script.
Though, honestly, I would probably happily use some of those today. In fact, it took me quite a long time to give up my "Live" one with the dragon, and the "dream" one with the bird spirit. I also like the "scream" and "weep" ones, though I didn't use them much.
Aaaand,
Same system, really, I just added a shadow/outline on some of them and used different sized text and multiple fonts. Only one I actually manipulated myself was that last one there, in which added a bit onto the lightning bolt and transformed a regular horse rearing in front of a sunset into a ghostly-kinda horse and pasted it in front of aforementioned lightning bolt. I also implanted the lightning bolt in the Echo of Angels one, taking it from a different part of the picture and putting it there cause the one that *was* taken there was all wimpy and stuff.
See? Aren't they pretty? And, believe it or not, the newer ones? They were created using a poorer imaging program than the early ones were - a system that is only a bare few levels above Microsoft Paint (and only in that it has more pixel capability and I can add a few effects, like blurring/sharpening and transparency and stuff like that) called ArcSoft. The first ones were made in the wonderful imaging program so called Photo Impact 7.0 where I had filters and textures and borders and all sorts of fun stuff I coulda added, but which at the time I had no friggin clue how to use. I am more photo-manipulation wise now, and *damned* if I don't desperately miss my beloved Photo Impact.
Post your very first icon that you made (if you have it, if you don't, the OLDEST one that you have) along with your newest icon. This will allow you to show how you have improved in iconing skills and tag five friends to see how they have improved.
Ah, yes... the good ol' days before Fandom had taken over my life. Creative, no? I took one of my many fantasy pictures, squared out the part I wanted, resized it down to 100x100 pixels, and added words in Bible Script.
Though, honestly, I would probably happily use some of those today. In fact, it took me quite a long time to give up my "Live" one with the dragon, and the "dream" one with the bird spirit. I also like the "scream" and "weep" ones, though I didn't use them much.
Aaaand,
Same system, really, I just added a shadow/outline on some of them and used different sized text and multiple fonts. Only one I actually manipulated myself was that last one there, in which added a bit onto the lightning bolt and transformed a regular horse rearing in front of a sunset into a ghostly-kinda horse and pasted it in front of aforementioned lightning bolt. I also implanted the lightning bolt in the Echo of Angels one, taking it from a different part of the picture and putting it there cause the one that *was* taken there was all wimpy and stuff.
See? Aren't they pretty? And, believe it or not, the newer ones? They were created using a poorer imaging program than the early ones were - a system that is only a bare few levels above Microsoft Paint (and only in that it has more pixel capability and I can add a few effects, like blurring/sharpening and transparency and stuff like that) called ArcSoft. The first ones were made in the wonderful imaging program so called Photo Impact 7.0 where I had filters and textures and borders and all sorts of fun stuff I coulda added, but which at the time I had no friggin clue how to use. I am more photo-manipulation wise now, and *damned* if I don't desperately miss my beloved Photo Impact.