This icon was made in Adobe CS4 on a Mac, but should be pretty easily translatable.

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Congratulations to this week's winner, arithilim.

Also to stripped0, who gets the Mod's Invitation after another very close vote!

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A thousand apologies-I shall blame my computer for not reminding me, but really, it only just occurred to me this morning when I was sorting out the voting that I have not yet posted the next challenge. Anyway, belatedly, here is Challenge #99.

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Thank you for the votes, everyone-though I wonder if I insinuated myself into first place by avoiding the challenge of the snowboarder! Still, I did manage to do some different things this time, so I hope this tutorial will be of interest. Icon was made in PS CS5 on a Mac, and uses a couple of filters as well as standard things.

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This was actually a nicely simple icon to make. It was done using Photoshop CS4 on a Mac.

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First place: pensnest
Second place: pensnest (in a very close finish)

Mod's invitation goes to stripped0
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