With voting up for Challenge 45, it's time to post Challenge 46

The theme for this challenge is: From the Past

* For this challenge, you may only icon past divas or knockouts; whether they were released or retired, matters not. So long as they are actively not wrestling with the WWE or TNA at this time, they are eligible as subjects.
* You are free to use any images that you wish.
* Entries must fit LJ standards (under 40kb, 100x100 or less, etc.)
* Brushes, textures, blending, text are all perfectly fine :) Just no animation
* Entries must be made by you and should be newly made for the contest
* As usual, you may enter up to 5 icons

- I would like to clarify that you can not make icons of a diva or knockout who used to work for either TNA or WWE and were then hired by the WWE or TNA. For example, Victoria/Tara and Kristal Marshall are not eligible. Roxxi or Candice are eligible.

Deadline to Enter: Saturday November 21, 2009 at 11:59 p.m. E.S.T.

Entries: 00

Challenge 130 this week is . . . wait for it . . . Free for all :D You may icon any singer/group, old or new, male or female.

Rules:
- You may find your own pictures.
- You can enter up to 3 icons.
- Icons must fit lj standards (100x100 and under 40kb)
- No animation is allowed but textures, brushes and anything else is.
- When entering you must use the <*img src*> tag and the url.
- All icons are due by midnight EST on 13th November (as a quick ref guide this clock shows the current time EST so you will never be late for a challenge).
- All pictures are behind the cut.
- All entries to be entered as a comment to this post, all comments are screened.
- If you have any questions/comments ask here and one of us will get back to you asap.

Entries: 00

[12]How I met your mother
[14]Smallville
[30]Supernatural
[18]Gossip girl
[5]Greek
[29]Lost
[1]Lost cast(Matt&Evie)

Teaser

more here @ raveninthesky

There are just the 9 lovely icons this week, but thank you to those of you that entered. :)

Voting Rules:

- All icons are behind the cut.
- Choose your 3 favourite icons.
- Votes for anything less or more will be discounted.
- Do NOT vote for yourself as your vote will be disqualified, others will do that for you.
- Do NOT tell anybody what icons are yours and get them to vote for you, that's cheating and we will disqualify their votes if we suspect you have done this.
- Voting will close and winners will be posted on Tuesday.


( Cast your vote )

Good luck everyone!

The awesome chicachellers will have your new challenge shortly.

Challenge 107 is going to be My Favorite Diva. You have to pick your favorite diva, only one, and make icons of her. I will even remove the TNA rule just for this challenge, so if any former diva that is working for TNA may be used. If there are any questions or comments feel free to ask. :)

Rules:
- You can enter up to THREE icons of your favorite diva (current or former)
- You may use any pictures you like
- Icons must be newly made for the challenge and not shown anywhere before the voting ends.
- All icons must fit lj standards (100x100 and under 40kb)
- There is to be NO animation
- You must enter all of your icons in one comment only otherwise you will be disqualified.
- Icons are due by midnight EST on Friday November 13th
- When submitting icons you must use the <*img src> tag and post the url also
- Icons are to be submitted on this post, all comments are screened.
- Good luck, have fun and if you have any questions comment here and I'll get back to you asap.

Entries: 00

How would I make two gif files play at the same time in Adobe CS3? An example is made in this icon by oum_boojae. Thanks!

Icons;
29 » Pokemon
03 » Perfume
19 » Persona
08 » Shugo Chara
12 » K-ON
04 » Kobato
08 » NARUTO
23 » Umineko
Total ★ 106

Banner;
02 » Perfume

Teasers:

( crash and burn )

34(!) entries this time! Great turnout. :-)

* If you have entered, it would be great if you could take the time to vote.
* Anonymous votes are not counted.
* Please do not, under any circumstances, vote for yourself. If you are caught doing so, you will be disqualified.
* Do encourage your friends to vote, but do NOT tell them which icon(s) are yours.
* When voting, please use the format in the box, it makes it easier on me when it's time to get the votes together.
* Keep in mind that votes are weighted.
* You must vote for a different icon in each category, including the special categories (8 icons total).

Voting will close on Wednesday, November 11th at Noon, E.S.T provided there are no crazy ties.



( entries are here )

sweetrapture82 will have the next challenge up soon.

→ vocaloid (miki) x19
→ pokemon x15
→ trapeze x23
→ hetalia x20
→ misc x5



more @ minimalist.

(: Forgot to post this earlier.. Halloween challenge has been extended for a week~
The deadline is now 13 November, 6PM GMT+10.
Please enter all your scary icons!
Click here :D

here

001-008 Smallville / Clois / Crossfire
009-024 Batgirl



You can find the icons HERE @ starlit_grphcs

Lots of beautiful shots from a houseshow in Dublin, Ireland


( ANGRY RANDY INVITES YOU IN! )

here @ coffeeforcloser

A second set with the large version is also available in this post.

♠ .hack//G.U. | 5
♠ pokémon | 27
♠ a certain scientific railgun | 23
♠ tales of (abyss, innocence, vesperia) | 20
♠ vocaloid | 19
♠ total | 94 ♠



here @ despairedicons

·[6] Ashley Greene & Kellan Lutz Halloween
·[7] Twilight Cast Gifs
·[7] Friends
·[31] One Tree Hill 7x08 - "(I Just) Died In Your Arms"

PREVIEW

more HERE @ beatifultale

Boredom got the best of me and so I stalked youtube. These are what I discovered...sadly no pantsing video has been found...yet. =P


x-posted over @ bornxbetter

Two days' worth:
The wwe.com daily divas are Layla and Tiffany, the knockouts are Lacey and Christy, and the blasts from the past are Lilian and Angelina.

( layla and tiffany )

( lacey and christy )

( lilian and angelina )

You are voting for your favorite of the two and the next woman to grace the layout of the community. This poll will close on November 8th, and the winner (and next Diva or Knockout of the Month) will be announced sometime around November 13th. The winner of Match 3 with 54.5% of the vote was Mickie James. She joins Alissa Flash and Katie Lea in the Semi-Finals.

Who will be the final woman to advance?

( Sarita vs. Tara )

This is a tutorial on how to make animated rain drops requested by wunderkind_lucy. The tut is a combination of the wonderful tutorials by alexia47 and awmp - thank you for providing the ideas and techniques!


The tutorial was done with PS7 and ImageReady

( Oh God, it's raining but I'm not complaining )

Icon Count

Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds ★ 32 icons

Yu-Gi-Oh DM ★ 6 icons

Yu-Gi-Oh 10^th anniversary film ★ 16 icons



Teasers:



Here @ soulfused

by: springfly
I'm interested in the white lines with the little white shapes that somewhat resemble birds (to me) texture.

I just want to know the maker of the texture~
If you know which batch it's from, that's just a bonus. x3

( One more example, if you need it~ )

uhmm.... i need help with my Imageready. I use Photoshop CS2 and the Imageready that comes with it.
When I'm making my gif it looks nice but when I save it it comes out all nasty and different. it didn't do this before so I don't know whats happened! D;


How its supposed to look:


How it came out:


see how the text has become fuzzy, brown and ugly instead of red and sharp? I looked in my options and played around with a bunch of things but nothing works!! please help...

Natalya squashed Tiffany. She earned 90.8% of the votes.

Poll #1482126
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 70

Which Diva do you prefer?

Preview:

1	2	3	4

credit to gloriachan
more@Falling Minds
HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Hi, guys!

I have Photoshop CS3 and I use it to make animations from videos. I had CS2 before and I haven't done many gifs on CS3 so far. When I save the image (from Save for Web & Devices) the maximum quality which I can get is 256 colors but the animation still looks grainy.

( cut for a rather big .gif )

Link and rules

[ R U L E S ]
- You may submit up to 4 icons.
- You may use the provided images or your own, as long as it contains potato chips.
- Icon entries must remain anonymous. This means not showing your icon ANYWHERE until voting is closed. If you see someone violating this rule, show me a link or a screencap.
- Anonymous entries are not acceptable.
- Animation is not allowed.
- Variations are not allowed.
- When submitting, you need only include your actual image. No link is necessary.
- When submitting your icons, please keep them all in the same comment.
- Brushes, textures, blending, and other effects are allowed.
- You are not limited to using just stock images, you may use screencaps from tv shows or movies, as long as the focus is on potato chips.
- Entries are due November 13, 2009 at midnight EST.
- Have fun!
- Current entries: 00



( Pictures )

There are 24 amazing icons this week so thank you everyone :)

( Rules and icons )

The lovely houfukuzettou will have your new challenge later.

- Do NOT vote for yourself under any circumstances.
- Vote for THREE favorite icons and ONE for 'Best Cropping' and ONE for 'Best Coloring'.
- Please vote for different icons in the special categories than you do the main categories, for a total of 5 different icons
- VOTES ARE WEIGHTED so vote in order of preference. Your first choice earns 5 points, your second earns 3 points and third gets 1 point.
- Keep your entries anonymous until voting is closed.
- If you entered you must vote, no exceptions unless you have informed one of the mods ahead of time.
- Voting will close Monday around 10:00 AM EST.
- You can copy what's in the box into your comment

( Icons )

The lovely chicachellers will have your next challenge posted later :)

download here

( + 1 big set )

  
♥ 54x Pokemon
♥ 8x misc. [ppgz, silent hill 3, vocaloid]

More Here @ earthquaeksahoy

As there are just 9 icons entered this week, I'm going to extend the challenge until midnight EST tonight in the hope of getting a few more.

Please enter if you can. :)

Submit your icons here.

For those who haven't seen this, and I'm pretty sure that's a small number, LOL, courtesy of Randy-Orton.Com...



I wish this was from a better angle, LOL, but what the freakin' hey, Randy's shiny bald head in a DX cap and THEN getting his sexy ass handed to him on a silver platter, and him being a total ham with it. What's NOT to love?

Love Lots And God Bless!
~ MARCIANA ~
http://twitter.com/marciana86