Your Monday (VERY Early) Dose of Fandom Positivity, Pimpage and Squee - PGoM style!

[red_satin_doll]

Any resemblance between this image and Edvard Munch's The Vampire is quite unintentional.
Just be grateful I didn't pull out any of my "Excedrin Headache" advert jokes. You're welcome.

** Cast your votes in slayerstillness Challenge 33; the deadline is Tuesday and there are 27 great entries this round!  Then take some time to admire the wonderful winning entries and pretty banners by comlodge for Challenge 29, and by tempertemper for Challenge 32.

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** Then cast your votes for your favorite/best icons in Round 4 of btvsats20in20 - and don't forget to vote in all of the categories: 10 Themes, Category (Shapes) and Artist's Choice.  Voting closes on Thursday, October 9th, so spread the word and let your f'listies know.


I've noticed that there are 21-23 "participants" (voters) listed and not to get persnickity on y'all, but - 23 votes? There's 12 artists, so if every one of the artists votes, plus at least a couple of their friends - that should still be a lot more voters. Now I know for a fact that at least a handful of my friends have voted because my friends are awesome and I hang with the bestest people. However, my nearest and dearest can't be expected to pick up all the slack so go to, people, and make some fan artists happy. It's an easy thing to do.

And if anyone out there is still hesitant to vote because you "don't know art" - tell me the name and address of the person who instilled that abject nonsense into your heads and I will go after them with a shovel. Actually, I'll scold and shake my finger at them. But I promise I will be merciless.

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Banners by dawnofme

** buffyversetop5 Halloween Classic Recs Edition is right around the corner already - how is that even possible? Four days for you to bring your all-time favorite recs of fics, vids, graphics, anything and everything fandom has produced in all the Whedon fandoms! All time periods before 2014 are eligible. Meaning, anything you didn't get to include in the January edition can be included here. I missed last year's classic edition (due to house fire and various other life things that took priority and can be forgiven) but the January edition was a great party, so I don't want to miss this round.

In addition to the banners by dawnofme, check out the snaggable icons by ruuger, kathyh, amavel_bel and eyesthatslay going all the way back to 2005 - the epitome of classic, classy and fun.

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Thank you sweetie! I have a couple of others with different crops and colors of the same cap I might still post.

And it's all ipiccy, except the initial crop and then final adjustments (incl signature) were done in Photobucket. I was trying to reproduce the effect of a PB filter but with better picture quality (aka disguise the pixelation). It's not exactly the same but I like the colors and light.

The "normal again" text is "sketch block" font in ipiccy. As you know, I can't keep track of exactly what I did with an image in ipiccy unless I write everything down (which I don't) so I'm not sure what setting I used for the word "again" for that coloring.

(I love talking art, now that I can understand at least 50% of the conversation. :)

[teragramm.livejournal.com]

the reason I asked is because it look like the exclusion setting in PS and I thought you had taken the plunge.

(I love talking art, now that I can understand at least 50% of the conversation. :) 50% isn't too shabby and I bet that in 6 months you will be up to at least 75% ~_^

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

The exclusion setting...hmmmm...

http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/shapes/add-subtract/

Oh I've been dying to be able to do things like that!

I'll consider that a compliment. No, for this one i didn't have to do any 'cutting' of the image, their was already a lot of negative space, and the coloring is of course inversion but then 'screen' coloration or something something adjusted for warmer colors and added a desaturated light leak at the crown of her head at about 50% opacity but erased the parts of the light that were beyond her head. Or something something. :P

I bet that in 6 months you will be up to at least 75% ~_^

I'll see your bet and raise you a nickel. :)

[teragramm.livejournal.com]

I have never tried anything like that tutorial. Exclusion can be used for many things but can sometimes look like a negative (kind of like your banner.)