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exsequar ([personal profile] exsequar) wrote2005-04-23 06:45 pm

My First Icon!!

I AM SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW.

I just found out that I actually have Paint Shop Pro 8 on my computer!! It came with it!! I have been mourning my lack of iconing capability, and then I find THIS. WHEE. So guess what I immediately did - I made an icon!!

Here it is: Image hosted by Photobucket.com

Please please tell me what you think!
I used this tutorial to guide me: http://www.livejournal.com/community/neptunian_queen/1469.html
I still have so much to learn, like whoa, but YAY, now I can actually act on icon bunnies!!!

*dances around ecstatically*

ETA: I've been working on it, I know the text wasn't very legible. Two more versions:
Image hosted by Photobucket.com Image hosted by Photobucket.com

I like the first of those two the best out of the set.

[identity profile] equusentric.livejournal.com 2005-04-23 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, now I know who to hit up for icons! :oD

(i'm queerki1, btw. this is my "actually post-to" journal...)

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-23 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Are you kidding me? o.O *eyes her very primitive icon*

You're too sweet! Thank you! I won't be becoming prolific any time soon, but maybe eventually I will become a guru :D Heehee */wishful thinking*

[identity profile] paddies.livejournal.com 2005-04-23 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwwwwwwww...that's lovely! ♥

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-23 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
REALLY?
*promptly faints*
No honestly... really??? Gio, you have seriously made my day - no, my year - no, my life! You are basically my favorite icon maker ever and you just praised my icon... O.O

On a less fangirly note, do you use PSP or PS? If you use PSP I would really really love some advice, because I'm a little lost on things like brushes and making text look nice. Brushes especially.

Thank you!! <3

[identity profile] paddies.livejournal.com 2005-04-23 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Eeehee...my first icon wasn't even remotely as pretty as yours...you're very good! :D

On a less fangirly note, do you use PSP or PS? If you use PSP I would really really love some advice, because I'm a little lost on things like brushes and making text look nice. Brushes especially.

I use Photoshop, and I don't know PSP at all (even tho I don't think it's really different from PS...). You can check out a bunch of icon-links/tutorials I have saved in my memories...I'm sure you'll find everything you need to know about icon making... ;-)

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-23 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww thanks... you're so kind :)

I will continue my web-wide search! Of course I would prefer to have PS, but.... free (I really don't know how it got on my comp) vs hundreds of dollars. Hmmmmmmm. Let me think... :P

This is FUN! :D

PS I think I love you forever for making the icon I'm using... so hot.

[identity profile] paddies.livejournal.com 2005-04-23 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
PS I think I love you forever for making the icon I'm using... so hot.

Awwwww...thank you so much! I LOVE that scene... :D

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
I do too! Breakin down the door... :D Kiss could have been longer though. I wanna see outtakes of that! *grins*

PS made a couple new versions of the icon

[identity profile] exhaledeeply.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
..

Dan/Emma?

..


QAF?

.. And you're not on my f-list why?

I'm very Brian/Justin. Leaning towards Brian/Micheal sometimes, but maybe that's just my insane lust for Micheal. But, you know.

<3.

[identity profile] exhaledeeply.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
Not to mention "Harry/Hermione friendship, to the song Poprocks and Coke by Green Day".

Wow, both of those.

ALSO not to mention your OTP for Harry Potter. <3 YAY. GAY ORGY. WOOO.


The icon you made is really good, too. Sure it's your first?

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
I am abso-positively sure it's my first! And second and third, now, lol :)

I will friend you back! Always love fellow fangirls! :D

Did you watch my video? Cause if you like both of those things you should probably like the vid, hehe :)

Harry Potter and Queer as Folk... pretty much opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to fandom (kids books vs. GAY PORN). And yet I love them both! :)

[identity profile] exhaledeeply.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'm checking it out right away.

There are so many gay possibilities in Harry Potter, though.


S/L, F/G, H/R...








... Or maybe I'm just a fag hag. BUT PROUD OF IT! XD

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh there totally are, I know, but I mean in terms of canon :)

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
You, by the way, do not have QaF OR Harry Potter in your interests! what are ya doin? *pokes* lol

[identity profile] theaeblackthorn.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
*hides from the borderless creatures* border...go for the border...

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe you should go to a therapist about this obsession sas o.O

[identity profile] the5thmarauder.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
Ack. The final one is GORGEOUS. Damn you, woman. You really are doing it. You're making me a B/J shipper *poke poke poke*

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
*laughs* and this is only a Brian icon! Anywho, their love is so beautiful and pure and REAL, how could you not be?? *cackles evilly* First Rachel, then THE WORLD!!!

[identity profile] exsequar.livejournal.com 2005-04-24 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh and thank you of course!! <3