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Fandom is filled to the brim with all kinds of talented people. From writers of both stories and meta to reccers to artists who have some awesome skills. Some of us have a blast creating, but might not be as vocal about wanting fannish things.
Today’s the day to say “You know what would be greatness? If someone made (blank) for me.”
I have a hard time asking for stuff, which is probably why I've only participated in this sort of thing a total of once before. But I'll screw myself up to do it today.
I'm not an artist, or good enough at graphics, and one of the things I've wanted for a while would require me being. [points to icon] My character, Charlotte Sparrow, is based visually on a nineteenth century opera singer, Lina Cavalieri. There's a fair amount of photos of her in period opera costumes, which is terrific for historic images of Charlotte, but I have nothing for modern day. Okay, so this is farfetched, but doesn't hurt to ask, right?
An Avengers fan mix - if everyone had a most played song on their MP3 player, what would it be? And speaking of Avengers, someone with mad banner making skilz making a banner for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
avengersblend. That would be awesome!
Last, I think would be cool to read what happened when Loki joined the Halloween party after my story, Variations On A Theme For Cowboys, ends. I'm pretty sure others could come up with much more fun scenarios than I could. Female!Loki and Natasha perhaps? They'd sure be pretty together!
Okay, I did it. Now to hit post....
Today’s the day to say “You know what would be greatness? If someone made (blank) for me.”
I have a hard time asking for stuff, which is probably why I've only participated in this sort of thing a total of once before. But I'll screw myself up to do it today.
I'm not an artist, or good enough at graphics, and one of the things I've wanted for a while would require me being. [points to icon] My character, Charlotte Sparrow, is based visually on a nineteenth century opera singer, Lina Cavalieri. There's a fair amount of photos of her in period opera costumes, which is terrific for historic images of Charlotte, but I have nothing for modern day. Okay, so this is farfetched, but doesn't hurt to ask, right?
An Avengers fan mix - if everyone had a most played song on their MP3 player, what would it be? And speaking of Avengers, someone with mad banner making skilz making a banner for
avengersblend. That would be awesome!Last, I think would be cool to read what happened when Loki joined the Halloween party after my story, Variations On A Theme For Cowboys, ends. I'm pretty sure others could come up with much more fun scenarios than I could. Female!Loki and Natasha perhaps? They'd sure be pretty together!
Okay, I did it. Now to hit post....
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Date: 2012-01-07 11:23 pm (UTC)From:Flawed Design
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Date: 2012-01-07 11:30 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 04:15 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 02:26 am (UTC)From:More detail, please. Because I love to draw, and could totally work something up, but I need more than "modern day." Hairstyle, fashion sense, time period, age, etc. If you go to my galleries on LJ
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Date: 2012-01-08 04:16 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 09:58 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-02-04 10:09 pm (UTC)From:If you go to my profile and click on "scrapbook files" that takes you to the galleries.
My Art tag also has some links, but only a couple, so you don't see the range.
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Date: 2012-02-04 10:27 pm (UTC)From:Later: aha!! Found your LJ and your art :)
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Date: 2012-02-04 10:35 pm (UTC)From:Glad you were (finally, no help from goofy me) able to find it!
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Date: 2012-01-08 05:03 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 06:12 pm (UTC)From:Will check out the music at the link, thank you!
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Date: 2012-01-07 11:23 pm (UTC)From:Other than that, whatever dimensions you decide upon, let me know. And perhaps also if you have any ideas about the banner, you could tell me something about them as well.
As for modern day Charlotte, could you elaborate? Do you want the image of Lina to be photomanipulated onto modern day clothes, or did you mean having someone do actual hand drawn art? Because I'm working on getting my skills improved, and I'd be happy to give it a try. Can't promise it would be finished soon, or look great, but I'm willing. :)
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Date: 2012-01-07 11:30 pm (UTC)From:I actually don't know what the dimensions would be. Banners are not my forte. I'm no help, I know. I just think whatever looks good :) Same goes for ideas about the banner: I'd just love to see what someone talented at the art of banners - like you - would create. But if you need more specifics, let me ponder.
Well, I think I thought of hand drawn art, not that I'd turn down something photomanipulated either. But hand drawn seemed more likely to be 'modern' in my mind.
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Date: 2012-01-07 11:40 pm (UTC)From:Do you have any actress/singer/whoever in mind when it comes to clothing style, body type and such? So I can see about getting some photo references. :)
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Date: 2012-01-07 11:58 pm (UTC)From:I will ponder :)
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Date: 2012-01-08 12:25 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 12:45 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 01:03 am (UTC)From:You can choose a color and copy the hex code from http://genopal.com/ which I find very useful.
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:06 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 01:16 am (UTC)From:(It just occurred to me that you probably didn't go to the edit css tab but used the stock layouts; that's fine too - I'll check a few design comms I frequent and see what the appropriate codes are for the layout.)
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:17 am (UTC)From:Thanks again!
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:24 am (UTC)From:Later: now I'm wondering if we can even use a banner on an unpaid account. Well, foo! Maybe will have to start paying for it to get it like I want :)
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:37 am (UTC)From:It's when it comes to custom layers that free users can't make any changes, but they involve a special LJ language called S2. I only dealt with it once, long ago, when someone gifted me with some paid time.
Design comms will usually spell out all the instructions to you, e.g 1. copy this code, 2. go to your edit css tab, 3. uncheck use layout's stylesheets (or leave as is) 4. paste the code.
(I'm probably overwhelming you; sorry, that wasn't my intention!)
((And I should probably get to bed since it's already well past midnight here. i might have some banner ideas for you later today.))
ETA "Later: now I'm wondering if we can even use a banner on an unpaid account. Well, foo! Maybe will have to start paying for it to get it like I want :)"
Absolutely no need. Have a look at one of
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:47 am (UTC)From:Thanks for all the trouble :) I did settle on a theme for now - no patterns!
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Date: 2012-01-08 10:53 am (UTC)From:Oh no, paid accounts can edit custom layers by using the S2 LJ programming language, and free accounts can edit the CSS to their hearts' content. Sometimes that results in unrecognizable differences between the LJ stock and the CSS layout.
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Date: 2012-01-08 05:58 pm (UTC)From:Hey, once you've had to try and help me install a custom theme, I'll have more than paid you back [snicker]
I don't know why I thought free accounts were unchangeable. I think I misinterpreted something I read on a theme community.
I messaged
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Date: 2012-01-08 12:32 am (UTC)From:something to consider
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Date: 2012-01-08 12:39 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 12:44 am (UTC)From:Here (http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0PDoS235AhP128AaDuJzbkF?p=addison+montgomery+private+practice+images&fr=moz2-ytff-msgr&ei=utf-8&n=30&x=wrt&y=Search), here (http://photobucket.com/images/addison%20montgomery/#!cpZZ1QQtppZZ20), and here (http://greysanatomy.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Images_%28Addison_Montgomery%29). I think this one (http://greysanatomy.wikia.com/wiki/File:AddisonMontgomeryS3.jpg) is a good visual of how I see Charlotte when she's going to some event with Tony, and this (http://greysanatomy.wikia.com/wiki/File:AddisonM.jpg), a more casual style. Definitely not as tall as Kate Walsh, I don't think she's more than 5' 6", black hair above shoulder length, fair, pale blue eyes.
I've never thought about this as much! LOL
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Date: 2012-01-08 12:51 am (UTC)From:And I can look up some more glamorous styles for her outings.
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Date: 2012-01-08 12:56 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 12:19 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-01-08 12:26 am (UTC)From:ETA that I just checked the comm's css, and #header-inner shows me that I'd need to make something that's 900 pixels wide. I'd probably need to increase the height. Give me a few days, and I'll test the css. Oh, and if you give me the link to the css of the style you used, I'd be able to try it out on a testing journal I have.
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Date: 2012-01-08 12:53 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:04 am (UTC)From:Basically, I trawled the interwebs for a compatible pose for the photos I have of Lina (I used one of Tilda Swinton in a suit!) and desaturated it. Then I copy and pasted Lina's head into the photo (new layer) and gave it a slight blue film tint to blend with Tilda's photo, and then used the eraser to go around the head.It took a bit of blending to get the neck right, but thats pretty much it!
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:15 am (UTC)From:Thank you [HUGS]
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:21 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2012-01-08 04:30 am (UTC)From:Okay, I'll stop now...
Date: 2012-01-08 04:51 am (UTC)From:I really need to close down Photoshop now, it's the middle of the night here! (Night owl is as night owl does :-P)
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Date: 2012-01-08 04:59 am (UTC)From:Re: Okay, I'll stop now...
Date: 2012-01-08 04:59 am (UTC)From:You do awesome work!!!
I wish I could use photoshop as well...