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Ficathon and GIP
I can't believe I signed up for the Blake's 7 Mills & Boon / Harlequin ficathon, but it looks like fun because parodies and 'turning the genre on its head' are fine. You look through the synopses for 102 stories and pick one to adapt (and reading those was scary in itself; Jarvik would seem to be the man of many M&B readers' dreams).
I'm basing mine on number 64, 'A Stolen Heart' - Kerr Avon's new business partner was not at all what he’d expected. Beautiful and outspoken, Valanne Ward was also the perfect image of a woman he thought was dead, a woman who had once ruled a star-spanning empire and had almost won his heart--and almost killed him. But was she a schemer out for revenge, or an innocent caught up in circumstances she didn’t understand?
Bwahahaha!
And in other news, I've been revamping some of my oldest icons now I'm gaining skills at Gimping. Most just needed tweaking but here are two that got a serious overhaul, and a Soolin.
Not available because they're mine, but I'm feeling confident enough to make some more if anyone wants any, though there are much more accomplished people like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
snowgrouse and kerravonsen out there.
[Edit] I redid the Soolin one and I think it's sharper.
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And those icons are fantastic! I mean, the old ones are good, but those are just... spiffy. :)
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Icons: Thank you! The old ones were dull. The 'worthwhile' one was all grey (I only cropped the screencap and whacked some text on it) and the 'danger' one was overwhelmed with yellow text and was the same pic as the one I used for this icon. :-P
I've still got a couple more to fix fuzzy text on, then I'll be fairly happy with them.
And I still have about 25 to go...
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BTW I fixed my problem with outlining text by playing with the select options. :-)
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BTW I fixed my problem with outlining text by playing with the select options.
What options did you change? I'm curious to find the answer to that puzzle.
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And are any of the heroes named Lance? I believe it was for a long time the Hero's name of Choice...
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though there are much more accomplished people like [info]snowgrouse and [info]kerravonsen out there.
(shuffles feet bashfully) Thank you.
But don't sell yourself short. (points at icon you made)
Though I think I wouldn't be half so accomplished if I hadn't had the spurring of
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The last one looks a bit blurry with jpeg compression, did you save it as a jpeg? Some programs have really crappy compression settings as defaults for jpegs and getting it under 40 k can be difficult. I heartily recommend saving pics as .gifs or pngs for less blur:).
The Mills & Boon ficathon is going to be a blast. I just know it. 8-) Swooning Servie, muahhaha!
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Doesn't look like it, it's a gif file. Perhaps the source image was blurry already. It looks like one of the publicity shots.
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(Reposted to show stun icon.)
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