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[artwhisperer]

Okay..and yet ANOTHER layout... I told you all I was fickle...and we have John Castle back again! Isn't he beautiful?? Though some of you may not be as thrilled with the theme as I am...the cool thing about it (I think)is that I can keep the colors from my old journal!..Did I mention I'm lazy as well as Fickle

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[agentxpndble]

The user icon is AWESOME - I absolutely LOVE what you did with the background picture... How did you treat that? Filters? Or did you tease it manually in some way? I think what I find totally amazing about it is that it looks disarmingly vintage. It almost doesn't look like John - I thought it was someone from decades earlier - 1940s or something... Flynn or someone from that era... Wow - I just love it.

[artwhisperer]

Thank you!! Well, I played with the backgroud in photoshop (version 4.0 actually *cringe*) I used the same method as with the black and white JC icons, only I didn't lighten them so much (duplicate base photo> set the duplicate to screen> change mode to grayscale, don't flatten> select the features only with that wand and darken them> select inverse and lighten the rest.) icon_tutorial is a really great place to learn about textures, brushes and filters and whatnot..I've actually made some of my own textures, which I'll post soon if you want to play with them. What photo editing program do you use?