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FIRST SHOWDOWN SAMPLE!

Feb 11, 2010 17:14

As discussed in an earlier post, we'll be having a Showdown Challenge in March, so two of your moderators (alyburns & luna_61) have engaged in a sample Showdown. We set a deadline for the end of February, but as it happens, both mods finished early, so this post will show the results of the sample icon battle. *g ( Read more... )

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janedavitt February 12 2010, 23:20:55 UTC

Loved the icons; I'm in!

luna_61 February 13 2010, 00:50:57 UTC

Great! Thanks for joining in the fun.

SUPER! alyburns February 13 2010, 02:22:47 UTC

Glad to have you! *g*

Icon Showdown psynurs February 13 2010, 22:30:34 UTC

Yes, I am looking forward to perusing all the lovely J/B icons you talented folks will come up with. Where do you learn to do these?

Re: Icon Showdown alyburns February 13 2010, 22:56:46 UTC

You do need a program, like Photoshop, first of all. Although many computers come with some kind of photo fix program like Paint - and yep, these can be used to start with. Then as you get more proficient, you can upgrade. As for actually learning, there are several wonderful communities with tutorials - like icon_tutorials and many others that share textures and brushes etc, along with 'how to' posts:

icon_extras & icon_textures, for example.

There's one challenge group that's EXCELLENT for newbies because they use lots of different subject matters and the winners have to post a tutorial on how they acheived their icon. It's severalplums.

And of course, each fandom has its icon communities. :) You can just put your favorite fandom in the lj search engine (like, "SGA icons" or "Harry Potter icons" etc.) *g*

This challenge is the perfect place to start!

Re: Icon Showdown psynurs February 13 2010, 23:30:01 UTC

Thank you so much, I appreciate the assist. FYI, the Icon Tutorials community is no more. However, the other links are live and I've joined those communities.

Re: Icon Showdown luna_61 February 14 2010, 07:25:33 UTC

It is icon_tutorial Aly put an extra letter in name. *g* They are still up and running, you will find lots of tutorials there.

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I'm Late but I wanna do it stoneygirl77 March 13 2010, 03:01:44 UTC

I a very late entry but I have been able to do it. My husband's surgery was postponed so I found some time. Count me in.

Re: I'm Late but I wanna do it alyburns March 13 2010, 22:10:15 UTC

unfortunately, you didn't do it correctly, sweetie. Can you send them directly to me? They weren't supposed to be done on post to the community.

Icon Challenge stoneygirl77 March 14 2010, 03:38:11 UTC

Hi Aly,
My email is djstone5@yahoo.com I don't know why it should have bounced back. I also sent the icons to you from my photobucket tonight as you requested but I guess you didn't get them. Well, I guess I really wasn't meant to be in on this one. LOL! The lucky charms of St. Patrick weren't with me I guess. Hopefully, I'll be luckier next time. Thanks for trying.
Debbie