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[personal profile] stripped2011-08-20 11:52 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #114, by stripped

Greetings! One tutorial for Challenge 114 coming up. While I kept careful notes that make it sound like I knew where I was going with this from the first moment, let me say that my best icon technique is "try things until something works" and that's definitely where I went with this one.

This icon was created using Photoshop CS5, along with some outside textures (I'll label them as I go). The details are behind the cut... )

If I am not clear enough on any step, or you would like clarification for any reason, please ask. It is quite possible that I may have missed mentioned something!
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-08-20 10:52 am

Challenge #116

A slightly different kind of challenge again this time.

Challenge #116 )

Meanwhile you still have until midnight-your-time to enter Challenge #115.
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-08-12 07:31 pm
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Winners, Challenge #114

Congratulations to this week's winners:

First place: [personal profile] stripped
Runner up: [personal profile] pensnest

Banners and instructions under the cut )

Challenge #115 is a bit lacking in entries at the moment, so I think it will stay open for another week, to give you all time to find some bicycle images and get your imaginations in gear.
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-08-12 11:01 am
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Comments on Challenge #114

Right, voting is now closed, and I'll be putting the results up later on today.

Meanwhile, any comments about this challenge? For myself, I found it a lot harder to icon than I'd expected, since it is a rather fabulous picture. If you participated, what did you enjoy, and what did you find difficult? Other thoughts?
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-08-07 09:34 am
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Voting, Challenge #114

It's great to see some new names as well as familiar ones among the entrants. Thanks to everyone who submitted something—it was a much more challenging pic to icon than I'd hoped, but there are some imaginative icons here.
Voting )
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-07-30 09:39 am

Challenge 114, and Welcome Back!

Hi, everyone! After a suitable hiatus I'm hoping you'll be interested in picking up this challenge again. For anyone who's new here - welcome!

Probably the hardest thing about running an icon challenge is finding suitable images for the challenges. I'm going to be asking you guys for some help with that, when I figure out what it is I want to ask for - also, I'm thinking it could be interesting to do a post-challenge comments post to find out what you liked/didn't like/found difficult about each one.

Meanwhile, here's Challenge #114:

James Franco )

There'll be a bit of a change to the voting, in that I shall post the voting eight days from today, and the results will go up the following weekend—you will have until Thursday to vote, then we can perhaps have a conversation about the challenge before the winners are announced. Let's see how that goes.

For the moment, I will post a fresh challenge next Saturday, but if weekly challenges are too much I will cut back to fortnightly. Have fun!
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-01-29 11:28 am

Challenge #113

Hmm. It looks as though Challenge #112 has inspired nobody... unless we get a cheering bunch of entries today?

Anyway. On to Challenge #113: )
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-01-28 10:55 pm
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Winner's Tutorial, Challenge #111, by pensnest

Hi all, and thank you for voting for this icon. It was made in Photoshop CS5 on a Mac, and uses Gradient Map, Levels and Colour Fill, so all quite translatable, I'm sure.
Read more... )
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-01-23 02:43 pm
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Voting, Challenge #111

Read more... )
And of course Challenge #112 is now up and waiting for you.
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-01-22 11:35 am
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Challenge #112

Read more... )
I'm starting a course tomorrow morning, so I suspect voting posts will be going up in the early afternoon (UK time) for the next two months. I hope that won't be a problem.

Meanwhile, you still have time to get your entries in for Challenge #111.
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[personal profile] pensnest2011-01-15 11:22 am

Challenge #111

Okay, bit of a slow start to the new year, but let's see how it goes. Do please publicise this community wherever you can, I think we can do with some more participants.

Read more... )
I'm starting a course on Sunday mornings, so I suspect voting posts will be going up in the early afternoon (UK time) for the next two months. However, I hope that won't be a problem.

Meanwhile, you still have time to get your entries in for Challenge #110.