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Having been bitten by the iconning bug (i.e. belatedly discovered that yes, I can crop and resize images in Paint), I went and made myself a batch of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and a few from "The Last Waltz." Technically they're bases, but I prefer to call them textless icons (Paint doesn't do text. You can make a text box, but the space within it turns white). A lot of the pictures got distorted, which was annoying, but I still had fun making them. Don't know if anybody's interested, but they're all here for the taking.

















(I tried to fix this one several times, because how awesome is that picture? but it kept coming out shitty no matter what I did)



(and is it just me, or does Neil Young look like he's completely in love with Joni Mitchell in both these picture?)

Alrighty, that's done.

Got some writing done while Vanessa was out last night, also watched "Pulp Fiction," which I had never seen before and liked very much, though not as much as "Kill Bill" ("Reservoir Dogs" is in the queue, but pretty far down). Also not as much as "From Dusk Till Dawn," which I watched with Beth before school and loved to pieces. [livejournal.com profile] guede_mazaka, you've got fic for that, right?

Have to check out the ferry at Point Lookout today because Dad wants to bring his kids down for a field trip next month. Eh. When I can work up the energy.
Mood:: 'lazy' lazy
Music:: "california," joni
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posted by [identity profile] guede-mazaka.livejournal.com at 08:50am on 11/09/2004
*huge grin*

Do I have fic for 'From Dusk Till Dawn.' Hell yes. Also femslash in 'Kill Bill.'
 
posted by [identity profile] donkeyriding.livejournal.com at 10:14am on 11/09/2004
*giggle*

cour, if/when you EVER come accross a _from dusk till dawn_ fic i wanna read it :)


ps, i took one of your joni icons *squeeee*
 
posted by [identity profile] delurker.livejournal.com at 05:24pm on 11/09/2004
(Paint doesn't do text. You can make a text box, but the space within it turns white).
Actually, you *can* use the text feature in Paint. When you click on the A, look down at the bottom of all the buttons on the side. There are two little boxes there: the ones with the geometrical shapes? (Cylinder, ball, box...) There is an outline around the box - the top one is filled in white, and the bottom one isn't.
Click on the bottom one of those two. This makes the text appear with a clear background - which means you can do text-y icons! Yay!
(It took me awhile to work this out, but it was lots of fun when I did.)
Hope this all makes sense...
ext_1788: Photo of Lirael from the Garth Nix book of the same name, with the text 'dzurlady' (iron)
posted by [identity profile] dzurlady.livejournal.com at 06:01am on 12/09/2004
[livejournal.com profile] delurker:
(It took me awhile to work this out, but it was lots of fun when I did.)
Hey! What's this about "I"? I'm pretty sure I was involved in that discovery too..
[livejournal.com profile] the_dala:
Let me introduce you to the joys of Photoshop, which is just fantastic for making icons, especially due to the layers pallette. (And can be downloaded for free from the Adobe website.) I'm not addicted, I can stop any time I want to. No, really.
ext_15529: made by jazsekuhsjunk (me - gypsy bob)
posted by [identity profile] the-dala.livejournal.com at 02:40pm on 12/09/2004
Excellent! Thanks, you guys -- going to try it out.

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