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[pensnest]

Last week's haul:

Chasez challenge, which I'm particularly pleased with:





Lots of Lance this time, since it was his turn in the Nsync challenge as well.







Then this week just gone:







JC was the Nsync challenge subject, and I think I like this one best of the JC's I did this week.







As usual, if you'd like information about any resources I used, do ask, and if you'd like to appropriate any of the icons (except for Corny but sincere, which I'm keeping), I can do that, too.

Comments

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I love your second place one for Chasez Challenge #43 A LOT. As in, A LOT. Um. Could I gack that please?

[pensnest]

Most certainly!

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Those are fabulous!

And um. I'm maybe staring at your banner a little bit. ;-)

[pensnest]

Thanks! I love my banner. I stare at it myself - I have the photo in rotation on my desktop, it is so, guh, stare-at-able!

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

I agree with JM, the second place icon for # 43 is spectacular!! So simple yet incredibly striking. I also like the second place JC icon for # 90, the brush/texture works so well with the picture, and the second place Lance icon for # 38 is very pretty. All soft and dreamy.

[pensnest]

Wrt the #43, it just goes to show, I have learned *something* from the SGA lims challenge! I'm pleased with the #90 JC icon, too, because I don't often use those textures, and they are pretty.

I sometimes think my icons must be getting very recognisable - can't seem to do anything radically different, but I spose that's probably because when I see radically different ones, I don't often like them.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Well, I think all iconmakers probably develop their own style after a while - I mean, I'm sure mine are pretty easy to recognise too :-) - but in this batch I don't think either 43 or 90 are very recognisably yours. At least to me they aren't.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

I knew I forgot something!

Do you think I could perhaps snatch the # 90 JC icon? It's so very pretty!

[pensnest]

You may:



Oh, while we're talking icons, how do you save yours? I've just started to do Save for Web and Devices instead of Save As, I'm not sure whether it does a better job or not, but something I saw on icon_tutorial led me to believe it was the best bet. (Not that I've had an answer to my question to the mod about *why*, but never mind.)

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!

I use Save As... in Photoshop when I want to save as png*. I had no idea you could do it any other way, now I must experiment with that to see if I notice any difference.

* If I want jpg files I never save them directly in Photoshop because it's crap at making jpgs. I save as png and then I open the png file in Graphic Converter and save as jpg there, it gives me much better control over compression and quality.

[pensnest]

Interesting method of saving the .jpgs. I don't usually notice, as my larger pics are generally for popmacros, and it doesn't matter that much what kind of quality they are. I shall have to take notice!

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Add my vote to JM's and Turlough's for the JC icon being stunning. It's gorgeous!

[pensnest]

*beams* Thanks.

[musiquedevie.livejournal.com]

Your 1st place Lance icon from the *NSYNC Challenge?

I flailed when I saw that. ;-D He's so gorgeous! And I love that effect that you did to it, the colors and...

yes, this is my subtle begging to use that icon, sil vous plait. Please? *bats eyelashes* :-)

[pensnest]

We-e-e-llll, sure!

[musiquedevie.livejournal.com]

Coolness. Thanks! :-)