<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<!--  If you are running a bot please visit this policy page outlining rules you must respect. http://www.livejournal.com/bots/  -->
<rss version='2.0' xmlns:lj='http://www.livejournal.org/rss/lj/1.0/'>
<channel>
  <title>☆ SUPERSTAR ☆</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/</link>
  <description>☆ SUPERSTAR ☆ - LiveJournal.com</description>
  <lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:23:15 GMT</lastBuildDate>
  <generator>LiveJournal / LiveJournal.com</generator>
  <lj:journal>cdg</lj:journal>
  <lj:journaltype>personal</lj:journaltype>
  <image>
    <url>http://p-userpic.livejournal.com/64665521/798365</url>
    <title>☆ SUPERSTAR ☆</title>
    <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/</link>
    <width>100</width>
    <height>100</height>
  </image>

<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/130365.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:23:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New Grunge Texture Pack (9)</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/130365.html</link>
  <description>Made in Photoshop 7.0 request filled for &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;xenylamine&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://xenylamine.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://xenylamine.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;xenylamine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Comments are lovely and appreciated.&lt;br&gt;- Credit is &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; needed.&lt;br&gt;- No reposting without permission, please.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i28.tinypic.com/15q9hsj.png&quot; width=&quot;314&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/06-18-2008/cdg-grungy062008.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=cdg&quot;&gt;friend me&lt;/a&gt; to watch for updates. You don&apos;t have to ask.  Old updates can be found on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/&quot;&gt;my website&lt;/a&gt;.  Want to be an affiliate?  Leave a comment on any post and I&apos;ll get back to you as soon as possible (resource journals only, please).</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/130365.html</comments>
  <category>icon textures</category>
  <category>textures (icon sized)</category>
  <lj:music>OneRepublic - All Fall Down</lj:music>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129852.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 19:53:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>4 Friends Only Banners</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129852.html</link>
  <description>Friends Only Banners x4 +2 variations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Comments are lovely&lt;br /&gt;- No credit needed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg15.fotki.com/a/66_56/245_13/VLFO04.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg15.fotki.com/a/66_56/245_13/VLFO012.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg15.fotki.com/a/66_56/245_13/VLFO013.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg15.fotki.com/a/66_56/245_13/VLFO01.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg15.fotki.com/a/66_56/245_13/VLFO02.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg15.fotki.com/a/66_56/245_13/VLFO03.png&quot;&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129852.html</comments>
  <category>friends only banners</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129631.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 23:14:43 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Out of Retirement? New textures!</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129631.html</link>
  <description>Think of it as one of those reunion tours bands have, getting together to put on a few more shows.  Who knows if my return is permanent or not, I just know that I have half retired from playing WoW (World of Warcraft) and have really been missing making some icon textures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;66 Scrapbook Textures&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My rules have not changed, but just in case you need them again, here they are!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Comments are lovely and appreciated.&lt;br&gt;- Credit is &lt;b&gt;not&lt;/b&gt; needed.&lt;br&gt;- No reposting without permission, please? It only takes 2 seconds to ask. &amp;hearts;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/6648/cdgscrapbookprev4d311bcqs1.jpg&quot; width=&quot;314&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/scrapbook/cdg-scrapbook05-15-08.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=cdg&quot;&gt;friend me&lt;/a&gt; to watch for updates. You don&apos;t have to ask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please don&apos;t forget to check out my affiliates to the left of the page.  Want to become one?  Please just leave me a comment on this (or any) post!  And just in case you are not aware, &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;rockmusiclims&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/rockmusiclims/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/rockmusiclims/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;rockmusiclims&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is going into their fourth session!  GO SIGN UP!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/rockmusiclims/&quot; target=&quot;new&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i2.tinypic.com/66iytua.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/community/join.bml?comm=rockmusiclims&quot; target=&quot;new&quot;&gt;join&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/rockmusiclims/profile&quot; target=&quot;new&quot;&gt;rules&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/rockmusiclims/68380.html&quot; target=&quot;new&quot;&gt;sign up&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/rockmusiclims/571.html&quot; target=&quot;new&quot;&gt;affiliate&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129631.html</comments>
  <category>icon textures</category>
  <category>textures (icon sized)</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129371.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:44:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Final icon post:</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129371.html</link>
  <description>This is my last icon post, since I am no longer a member of an icon community for posting my icons and I never got around to posting these last year.  I kind of just wanted to share them, even though I&apos;m not advertising them anywhere.  Feel free to overlook this post (I know many of you only have the journal friended for my resources).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;xoxo,&lt;br /&gt;cdg&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;Fandoms include: Bleach, Final Fantasy, musicians, Naruto, misc, Alan Rickman &amp; Harry Potter&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Bleach&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/149-1B_I.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/149-2-B_I.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/165-AB_A.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/manga_icontest89a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/01-06b2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/01-06AS_LFINAL.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/01-06AS_L.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/Final_Remake01a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/Final_MODS-CHOICEa.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/Final_FFA01a.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/01-05b1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/01-06bFINAL.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/123-Actor-WI.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/123-CAP-WI1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/123-HUNT-WIa.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/123-TEXT-WIa.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/w_i-121-actor.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/w_i-121-cap.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/w_i-121-hunt.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/w_i-121-lyrical.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/w_i-122_actorC1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/w_i-122_cap1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/w_i-122_huntB.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/w_i-122_lyrics1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/w_i-127-actor-1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Naruto&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/14-Chorus-A1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/14-Chorus-B1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/58-01a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/58-02q.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/59-A_AA.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/59-B_AA.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/60-A_AA.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/60-B_AA.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/61-1_AA.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/63-1-A_A.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/63-2A_A.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/149-Manga-A1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/149-Manga-B1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/160-1B_A.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/AA67-A.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/AA67-B.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/AA_52a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/BA166-1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/BA166-2b.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/cdg-narusasu01.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/cdg-obikaka.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/cdg-sasunaru02.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/cdg-sasunaru03.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/rotated02a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/rotated011.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Final Fantasy&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/10-01.gif&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/10-01.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/10-02a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/10-04sephKH.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/10-05FFL.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/10-07final.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/156-B_BA.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/BA165-01.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/FFA-152-A.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/FFA-152-B.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Alan Rickman&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/03-01a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/03-02b1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/03-04_RM.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/03-05d.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/03-06R_L.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/03-08b-copy.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Musicians&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/JCG_03-A.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/Round-2-Week-8b.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/Round-2-Week-8a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/Round-2-Week-7.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/Round-2-Week-5.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/Round-2-Week-4final.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/Round-2-Week-10b.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/Round-2-Week-10a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/Round-2-Week-9a.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/JCG_03-B.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/RML_03-01-cdg.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/JCG_03-C.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/JCG_04-A.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Misc&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/02-B1.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/157-A_BA.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/157-B_BA.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/158-1_BA.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/gravi_awards-yuki1.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/BA165-02.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/SS-19A.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/b/65_184/225_6/SS-19B.png&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg5.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/SS-19C.png&quot;&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129371.html</comments>
  <category>icons</category>
  <category>alan rickman</category>
  <category>naruto</category>
  <category>bleach</category>
  <category>misc</category>
  <category>final fantasy</category>
  <category>musicians</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129243.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:09:48 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>All good things must come to an end...</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129243.html</link>
  <description>I have officially retired from iconing and graphic making.  I just want to thank everyone who followed this journal and my website all these years.  Without you, I would have given up ages ago but your encouraging words always kept me going.  I&apos;ve had fun, but, as a good friend said to me, &quot;when it&apos;s no longer fun, it&apos;s time to move on.&quot;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, that&apos;s what I&apos;m doing.  This journal is not going anywhere and neither is the website - at least, not for a long, long time. This way, what I have made can still be downloaded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crayon Drawn Girl</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/129243.html</comments>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/128707.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:44:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>22 Light Textures</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/128707.html</link>
  <description>&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;Made with stock images @ &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inmagine.com/&quot;&gt;Inmagine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Comments are lovely.&lt;br&gt;- Credit is not needed.&lt;br&gt;- No reposting without permission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://hotimg14.fotki.com/a/65_184/225_6/cdg-oct2007_lights-prev-.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/lights/lights/cdg-OctoberLights2007.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=cdg&quot;&gt;friend me&lt;/a&gt; to watch for updates. You don&apos;t have to ask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For easier browsing, &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/&quot;&gt;my website&lt;/a&gt; also contains all brushes and textures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always, your comments are appreciated and inspiring. Thank you. :)</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/128707.html</comments>
  <category>light textures</category>
  <category>icon textures</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/128244.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:17:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>HIATUS</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/128244.html</link>
  <description>Well, it&apos;s finally here.  My husband who had left for Iraq on March 11th of this year is coming home.  I can&apos;t even begin to describe how excited I am to see him.  His plane will land on the base on Wednesday, approximately 4pm EST.  So, after Wednesday, I will be mostly unavailable for a while. &amp;hearts;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until I return, I just want everyone to know that ILU for expressing your support on my previous posts about him being gone and I will talk to you all soon.</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/128244.html</comments>
  <category>hiatus</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127866.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:21:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>2 new light texture packs</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127866.html</link>
  <description>All made using photoshop (no stock images)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Comments are lovely.&lt;br /&gt;- Credit is not needed.&lt;br /&gt;- No reposting without premission.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002ett5e&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(preview is not actual size)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/lights/cdg-lightspotslarge.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002ewbf8&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(preview is not actual size)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/lights/lights/cdg-640x480randomlights.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=cdg&quot;&gt;friend me&lt;/a&gt; to watch for updates.  You don&apos;t have to ask.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For easier browsing, &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/&quot;&gt;my website&lt;/a&gt; also contains all brushes and textures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always, your comments are appreciated and inspiring.  Thank you. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&apos;t forget to check out my most recent affiliate &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;retrographic&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/retrographic/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/retrographic/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;retrographic&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!  Want to be an affiliate? Just leave me a comment here.  No icon only journals please.  For icon only journals, please check out my icon journal &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;iconomatopoeia&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/iconomatopoeia/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/iconomatopoeia/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;iconomatopoeia&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for affiliations. &amp;hearts;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One last thing, if you get a chance, please go &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/pickmybest/391845.html&quot;&gt;pick my besticons&lt;/a&gt; @ &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;pickmybest&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/pickmybest/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/pickmybest/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;pickmybest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!  But please read the rules on how to vote if you do, so they count. Thank you!</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127866.html</comments>
  <category>light textures</category>
  <category>large textures</category>
  <category>640*480</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127571.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:52:30 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Website</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127571.html</link>
  <description>Wow, I&apos;ve been a busy bee lately.  I finally (after 2 or more years) updated AnimeChild.com!  I&apos;m happy with how it came out and it&apos;s easy to edit so I can stop avoiding it now, haha. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://animechild.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Check out the new look.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My next project will be to work on my actual brushes page.  That one is going to be a killer. x_x;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127571.html</comments>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127312.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:21:41 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>300+ watchers</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127312.html</link>
  <description>&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002dky10&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Requests are now closed&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Wow!  Over 300 watchers for this journal.  I&apos;m honored and truly flattered that so many people like the extras I provide enough to watch this journal.  To express my thanks, I&apos;m going to open requests for banners, icons or extras for the next few days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You may request &lt;u&gt;one&lt;/u&gt; of the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;CHOICE 1&lt;/b&gt; - An icon, still or animated, from any fandom or stock image that you want.  Use the form in the text area below to make your request, and please fill it out completely.  If it&apos;s not filled out completely, the request may be skipped.  Here is a short list of fandoms that you don&apos;t have to provide an image for (as long as the character is popular) since I maintain screenshots for many series:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naruto (specify anime or manga)&lt;br /&gt;Bleach (manga only)&lt;br /&gt;Arashi&lt;br /&gt;LM.C&lt;br /&gt;FFX&lt;br /&gt;Eureka&lt;br /&gt;The L Word&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;textarea&gt;ICON REQUEST
Image link(s): 
Desired Text: 
Colors preferred: 
Animation or Still: 
If animation, specify what you&apos;re looking for: 
Username on icon?: &lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;CHOICE 2&lt;/b&gt; - An image pack containing 5-7 textures for your exclusive use.  They will not be posted for others to use (for a minimum of 6 months, and by then I&apos;ll probably forget I made them and not post them anyway haha).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are choosing this option, please use the form in the text area below in your reply.  Failure to complete all fields may result in the request being skipped.  Please note that these will be icon-sized textures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;textarea&gt;IMAGE PACK REQUEST
Style: (light, floral or grunge) 
Color preference: 
Any specific notes, please include them here: &lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Choice 3&lt;/b&gt; - 1 banner, size not to exceed 700 px by 400 px.  Use the form in the textarea below.  Failure to complete all fields may result in the request being skipped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you may know, this journal manages rotating headers, here are some samples of headers I&apos;ve done:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animechild.com/rotate/random_1.jpg&quot;&gt;Sample 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animechild.com/rotate/random_2.jpg&quot;&gt;Sample 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animechild.com/rotate/random_3.jpg&quot;&gt;Sample 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animechild.com/rotate/random_5.jpg&quot;&gt;Sample 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.animechild.com/rotate/random_6.jpg&quot;&gt;Sample 5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;textarea&gt;BANNER REQUEST
Size: 
Provide image(s) if you have them: 
Colors preferred: 
Font Preferred (not required): 
Desired Text: 
Please do not include: (anything you don&apos;t like, indicate here) 
Please make it in the style of banner number (see above): (not required) 
Anything extra you want to request/add: &lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is first come, first serve, no reserves.  Requests are limited to those who have commented in the past.  You do not need to have this journal friended to make a request.  Each request filled will receive one remake of a completed item if it is unsatisfactory. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks again everyone!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;For my own reference.  Completed requests are being deleted after pick up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Pending&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;None.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Completed&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;xenylamine&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://xenylamine.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://xenylamine.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;xenylamine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;amberhime&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://amberhime.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://amberhime.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;amberhime&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;** &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;normaltrouble&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://normaltrouble.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://normaltrouble.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;normaltrouble&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (Not picked up)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;shardaunei&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://shardaunei.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://shardaunei.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;shardaunei&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  (*Tutorial Pending)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;sionnach_ayame&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://sionnach-ayame.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://sionnach-ayame.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sionnach_ayame&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;sirhellsing420&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://sirhellsing420.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://sirhellsing420.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sirhellsing420&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;zerabell&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://zerabell.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://zerabell.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;zerabell&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;viridescere&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://viridescere.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://viridescere.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;viridescere&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;dicaprio_dilly&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold;&apos;&gt;dicaprio_dilly&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;splendidshadows&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://splendidshadows.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://splendidshadows.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;splendidshadows&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;** - are currently not allowed to make requests if another request post goes up until they have contacted me to sort out why they didn&apos;t pick up their previous request.&lt;/small&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127312.html</comments>
  <category>requests</category>
  <category>thanks</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127185.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:28:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>14 Fireworks Image - Taken by me.</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127185.html</link>
  <description>All images are taken by me - not for commercial use.  No watermarks on images.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Size 1024*768.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Comments are appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;- Credit is not required.&lt;br /&gt;- Reposting is &lt;u&gt;not&lt;/u&gt; permitted.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002dhw82&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/lights/stock-fireworks_byCDG.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you checked out the rest of &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/&quot;&gt;my journal&lt;/a&gt; for other recent image packs?  Have you seen some of the older ones on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/&quot;&gt;my website&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Looking for my screencaps?  &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/113199.html&quot;&gt;Check this list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don&apos;t be afraid to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=cdg&quot;&gt;friend me&lt;/a&gt; to watch for new icon extras!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;Note:Thanks everyone for commenting on previous posts. It&apos;s really beenencouraging and I love making and sharing everything with you all!&lt;/font&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/127185.html</comments>
  <category>stock photography</category>
  <category>light textures</category>
  <category>1024*768</category>
  <category>large textures</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/126873.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:28:39 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Rotating header</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/126873.html</link>
  <description>So I&apos;m trying to make more headers since I&apos;ve got the script working for rotating header images on this journal and I really would like some high res pictures of Sting, The Police, Duran Duran and Depeche Mode or other 80&apos;s-current bands from the same music genre.  If you can help, give me some links to images and I&apos;ll make sure to credit you in my layout section on the front page. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks!</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/126873.html</comments>
  <category>headers</category>
  <category>images needed</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/126555.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:07:33 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>15 Radial Textures</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/126555.html</link>
  <description>- Comments are appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;- Credit is not needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002cwe7f&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/august/cdg-spiral.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks for all your previous comments.  ILU guys/gals. :D &amp;hearts;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/126555.html</comments>
  <category>textures</category>
  <category>icon textures</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/126348.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:40:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>4 new texture packs</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/126348.html</link>
  <description>&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;(made with stock images)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Four new textured patterns (non-repeating): leaves, vines, floral and random.  All samples behind the cut along with download links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5319/vinescdgfm9.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/august2007/cdg-vines2007.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/870/floralcdgju0.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/august2007/cdg-floral2007.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5139/leavescdgbu0.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/august2007/cdg-leaves2007.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/4075/randomcdgwf0.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/august2007/cdg-random2007.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/126348.html</comments>
  <category>icon textures</category>
  <category>patterns</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125991.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:17:34 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>2 PS 7.0 brush sets: grungy hearts &amp; stars</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125991.html</link>
  <description>* Comments are lovely (it&apos;s encouraging to receive them, even if you don&apos;t take them &amp;hearts;).&lt;br /&gt;* No credit needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Previews behind cut!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026h682&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/brushes/cdg-grungehearts.abr&quot;&gt;.abr&lt;/a&gt; &amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/brushes/cdg-grungehearts.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/brushes/august/cdg-previewstars.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/brushes/august/cdg-grungystars.abr&quot;&gt;.abr&lt;/a&gt; &amp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/brushes/august/cdg-grungestars.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you checked out the rest of &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/&quot;&gt;my journal&lt;/a&gt; for other recent image packs?  Have you seen some of the older ones on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/&quot;&gt;my website&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Looking for my screencaps?  &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/113199.html&quot;&gt;Check this list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don&apos;t be afraid to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=cdg&quot;&gt;friend me&lt;/a&gt; to watch for new icon extras!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;Note: Thanks everyone for commenting on previous posts. It&apos;s really been encouraging and I love making and sharing everything with you all!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please check out my newest affiliate: &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;may_icons&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/may_icons/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/may_icons/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;may_icons&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125991.html</comments>
  <category>brushes</category>
  <category>photoshop 7.0</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125881.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:52:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>PS Tutorial (7.0) - Understanding Selective Coloring</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125881.html</link>
  <description>&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;This tutorial should be translatable for newer versions of Photoshop.  This tutorial is &lt;u&gt;not&lt;/u&gt; dial-up friendly, as it utilizes example images to assist in understanding.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tutorial&lt;/u&gt;: Using the selective coloring tool &lt;b&gt;without&lt;/b&gt; abusing it.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Purpose&lt;/u&gt;: To help people understand the selective coloring tool and how to use it to enhance colors in your images.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Level&lt;/u&gt;: Beginner - detailed.  Advanced Photoshop users may find this tutorial tedious.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Disclaimer&lt;/u&gt;: I am not proclaiming myself a Photoshop expert or graphics making God.  This is simply written to help people learn to use a tool that has become very abused.  I myself have abused it in the past and I&apos;ve learned from my mistakes. :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing we need to do is be able to identify the selective coloring tool so that we can use it.  There are two ways to use it - directly on the image itself:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00259986&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or by making it a separate layer on top of the image we&apos;re working with:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025achg&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I highly recommend that you stick to making it a new layer, so you don&apos;t alter the actual image especially if you somehow manage to make a mistake that you can&apos;t go back and correct.  For the purpose of this tutorial, I will always be making the selective coloring on a new layer.  &lt;u&gt;Layers are your friend.&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ll start off with some badly abused uses of the selective coloring that have somehow managed to make it into mainstream iconing.  All examples are made by me and, because he&apos;s so easy to abuse (and frequently done so by iconers) I&apos;m going to use Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) - poor guy!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bad examples of selective coloring:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025b07f&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025c38x&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025dq02&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What&apos;s wrong with these icons?  First, people don&apos;t have sunburned lips normally or orange toned skin.  Seriously!  While it&apos;s nice to enhance colors such as the red of Rupert&apos;s hair or the blue of the background, you have to remember to take the entire icon into consideration.  Bad uses of selective coloring can also  cause an image to appear washed out, over sharpened and on occasion pixely (or appearing as though it were saved as a .gif).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let&apos;s start off with &lt;a href=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025erac&quot;&gt;this image&lt;/a&gt; of Ron on the train to Hogwarts.  Although there are several ways to brighten an image, for the purpose of this tutorial, I am going to simply duplicate the layer by right clicking on it and choosing &lt;b&gt;duplicate layer&lt;/b&gt; then  in the layers window I am going to set it to &lt;b&gt;screen&lt;/b&gt;.  Here are the screenshots so you can do this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025f1ss&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025g8r5&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will give you some basic brightening:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025hyt2&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that I&apos;m not making an icon here, I&apos;m simply showing the use of the selective coloring tool so we won&apos;t be going through the steps of cropping or sharpening.  You can do that on your own if you choose - you&apos;ll still be able to follow the steps of the tutorial.  In your layers window, please make sure that you have the top most layer selected (that would be the layer you set to &lt;b&gt;screen&lt;/b&gt; then go to Layer -&amp;gt; New Adjustment Layer -&amp;gt; Selective Color.  It will bring up a pop-up box like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025kts4&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can change the name of it if you like just leave the other settings as they are.  When you click on &lt;b&gt;OK&lt;/b&gt; to continue, it will bring up the selective coloring window:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025ppcr&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A good thing to know is that you can alter multiple colors in your image with this one layer, or you can simply use this for just the reds and create a new selective coloring layer to handle other colors.   If you accidentally close your Selective Color layer at anytime by hitting &lt;b&gt;OK&lt;/b&gt;, you can can bring the window back up by double clicking on the outlined area on the image below:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025qtxd&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are a list of colors that can be manipulated:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025rwax&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ll start with &lt;u&gt;REDS&lt;/u&gt; so we can bring out the color of Ron&apos;s hair.  I want to express the importance of playing with settings - these settings are good for &lt;u&gt;this image&lt;/u&gt; and if you choose to try this tutorial out on your own image, it&apos;s likely will not produce the same results.  Taking out the cyan and adding magenta and yellow, it brings out the orange/red in Ron&apos;s hair - but also brings it out in his face:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025sh8t&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to make Ron&apos;s skin tone more natural so I go to the &lt;b&gt;WHITES&lt;/b&gt; setting and lower the settings on yellow and magenta until his skin tone looks a little more normal.  The change is not dramatic, and that&apos;s ok, we just want to even out his skin:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025tb8w&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025wy5a&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, as you can see, Ron still looks like he&apos;s wearing lipstick.  That might be ok for some strange fanfiction (you know it&apos;s out there - you just haven&apos;t come across it yet) so we&apos;re going to actually erase part of the &lt;b&gt;selective color layer&lt;/b&gt; so that his lips aren&apos;t as enhanced as his hair is.  On our layers list, the white highlighted area in the example below is called a &lt;b&gt;mask&lt;/b&gt;.  A mask is very hand to have, it allows you to erase out some of the parts of the selective color area that we don&apos;t want affected by our changes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025xtef&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now take your &lt;b&gt;eraser tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025yyq0&quot;&gt; and make your settings.  Just a suggestion, when working with an area that you are going to erase on, enlarge the image so you you are only erasing on the area that you want to.  It&apos;s easier to be more exact when the image is enlarged.  My brush settings are below - this window is underneath your menu at the top of the screen.  If for some reason you don&apos;t see it, go to Windows -&amp;gt; Options and make sure this is checked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025zdpa&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After enlarging my image (you can use the &lt;b&gt;magnify tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00260s79&quot;&gt; or using Ctrl-Shift-+ shortcut to enlarge) I erased out the area above Ron&apos;s lips to get rid of the too-red coloring.  The area inside the marquee is where I erased so you could see the difference in the natural coloring of his lips and the obnoxious lip-stick red (the image appears pixely because it is magnified by 300%).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002610gf&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a reminder, you are erasing on the white mask area.  When you finish erasing, it will leave the area black on the mask.  If for some reason you make a mistake you can either &lt;b&gt;step backwards&lt;/b&gt; (Ctrl-Shift-Z) or paint on the masked area in white and will revert back to its original state.  You can continue erasing any other area that you feel might be too affected by the red as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(here is the masked area, blacked out where I erased)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00262t95&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, go back to your selective color options on the same layer you just erased on by double clicking on the layer thumbnail:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0025qtxd&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the drop down list of colors, choose &lt;b&gt;BLACKS&lt;/b&gt;.  We&apos;re going to further enhance the image by adding a bit of contrast.  I highly suggest spending a few moments playing with all the settings before continuing on, so you can see exactly what part of your image can be affected by changing the settings of the BLACKS in your image.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I just want the blacks in my image to be more vividly black and not blackish/dark gray, so I set my blacks to +10%.  We&apos;re not trying to darken the image so if you go much more than 10%, the image becomes too dark.  Find the setting that works for &lt;u&gt;your&lt;/u&gt; image if you&apos;re not using the one of Ron that I provided.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00263qr1&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026475a&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lovely, no?  Moving on.  Go into the selective coloring options again and go to &lt;b&gt;NEUTRALS&lt;/b&gt;. Just a warning here, a little bit goes a -long- way.  I lowered the setting of my cyans by -5 to give Ron&apos;s face a little more neutral coloring.   The coloring is subtle and enough of a chance that I&apos;m happy with it.  I cropped and resized my image to make the rest of the tutorial a little more compact (which also makes it look less grainy because it wasn&apos;t the highest quality image when we first started):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;BEFORE&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00265a0h&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;AFTER&lt;/b&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00266cxz&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now for the blues.  Go ahead and make a new Selective Color Layer the same way we did earlier, making sure that you have the top most layer in your layers list selected so the new layer becomes the top most layer (boy I hope that wasn&apos;t confusing).  Here&apos;s a little screenshot to show you what I mean, I renamed my new layer &quot;blues&quot; so you could tell the difference:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00267kq5&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on OK before making any changes to your new selective color layer.  We&apos;re going to erase out Ron&apos;s image from this layer so it doesn&apos;t change the work we just put into enhancing him.  Repeat the instructions above of erasing on the mask area to take Ron out of the new selective coloring layer.  Here are the results:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00268yks&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go back into the selective color options.  Our background has a lot of blues in it so let&apos;s enhance them a bit to make them appear more bold!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First I went into the &lt;b&gt;BLUES&lt;/b&gt; in my drop down and turned the magentas down to -100 to enhance the blue in the window.  Then I went into my &lt;b&gt;CYANS&lt;/b&gt; and turned the cyans up to +100 and the magentas to +50 to enhance the blue in the window some more.  The last thing I did was went into my &lt;b&gt;WHITES&lt;/b&gt; and turned the cyans, magentas and yellows down to -50 to adjust the coloring of the wall behind Ron.  Here are the settings and the results:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026975p&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026asky&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026bh84&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I click on OK when I&apos;m done with my adjustments and here is the before and after of the newest selective color adjustment layer.  It enhanced the blue in the window and toned down the blues in the rest of the cap to make the walls appear more white:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00266cxz&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026c87x&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are the changes from start to finish:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/00265a0h&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026c87x&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, please keep in mind that this tutorial is simply to enhance properly.  There are many great icons out there that use selective coloring to make bright, vivid and interesting changes to images.  Here are some other icons I&apos;ve made where I&apos;ve used selective coloring to enhance:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026d4ta&quot;&gt; to &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026eqk1&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026fr0k&quot;&gt; to &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0026g5dd&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A special thanks to &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;xenylamine&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://xenylamine.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://xenylamine.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;xenylamine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for teaching me not to be afraid of selective coloring and the benefit of using neutrals during this process.  Hope this tutorial helps you.  Feel free to leave comments or questions.</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125881.html</comments>
  <category>ps cs3</category>
  <category>photoshop 7.0</category>
  <category>ps 7.0</category>
  <category>selective coloring</category>
  <category>icon tutorial</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125475.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:43:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>20 Pattern Textures</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125475.html</link>
  <description>&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;(made with stock images)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Comments are &lt;font color=&quot;#00ff00&quot;&gt;snazzy&lt;/font&gt;. XD&lt;br /&gt;* Credit is not needed.&lt;br /&gt;* No reposting anywhere else (without permission).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/0024gr11&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/august/cdg-patterns0807.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you checked out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/&quot;&gt;rest of my journal&lt;/a&gt; for other image packs? Have you seen some of the older ones on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/&quot;&gt;my website&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Looking for my screencaps? &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/113199.html&quot;&gt;Check this list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don&apos;t be afraid to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=cdg&quot;&gt;friend me&lt;/a&gt; to watch for new icon extras.</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125475.html</comments>
  <category>textures</category>
  <category>icon textures</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125060.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:08:27 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>PS 7.0 Tutorial</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125060.html</link>
  <description>&lt;u&gt;Level&lt;/u&gt;: &lt;b&gt;Beginners&lt;/b&gt; - this tutorial will explain in detail how to use certain tools and short-cuts in photoshop.  Very detailed.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Translatable&lt;/u&gt;: Yes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Image heavy, not dialup friendly.&lt;br /&gt;* Advanced PS users will find this tutorial annoying.  XD&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellspacing=&quot;4&quot; style=&quot;background-color:&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=anbuaonenaruto8447d8709tx0.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/8523/anbuaonenaruto8447d8709tx0.th.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i18.tinypic.com/62e2tdz.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;color:#000000;text-align:center&quot;&gt;&lt;small&gt;From this&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;color:#000000;text-align:center&quot;&gt;&lt;small&gt;to this.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Start off with your image.  I chose &lt;a href=&quot;http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/8523/anbuaonenaruto8447d8709tx0.jpg&quot;&gt;Itachi and Sasuke&lt;/a&gt; from Naruto.  Use your &lt;b&gt;crop tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001yq27t&quot;&gt; and make the settings 80 px (w) by 45 px (h) with a resolution of 72.  If you don&apos;t see the options to set this, go to &lt;b&gt;Window&lt;/b&gt; and select &lt;b&gt;Options&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001yrz53&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note&lt;/b&gt;: A resolution of 72 will ensure that your font is displaying in the appropriate size when you add text to your image.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This left me with my base image cropped to 80 x 45.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001yskc9&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) The image looks a little blurry and dark at this size.  Select the &lt;b&gt;sharpening tool&lt;/b&gt;.  You&apos;ll find it located on the left side of your tools toolbar, 7 down.  You may need to right click on this icon and choose the triangle looking tool to get the sharpen function.  Make sure your settings are set to about 20% strength, otherwise you&apos;ll over sharpen your image and make it appear pixely.  Now brush over your image once to sharpen it slightly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001ytar8&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001yww1q&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, duplicate your image by going to the &lt;b&gt;layers window&lt;/b&gt;, right clicking on the layer you wish to duplicate and select duplicate layer.  If you can not see this window, go up to &lt;b&gt;Window&lt;/b&gt; and select &lt;b&gt;Layers&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001yxxsp&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Select the new duplicated layer by clicking on it and set your new layer to screen and play with the opacity until you&apos;re satisfied with the contrast.  I chose 50%.  Keep in mind that if you leave it at 100% it might be too bright and appear washed out/faded however if your image is especially dark, you might need to leave it at 100%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note&lt;/b&gt;: More advanced photoshop users have been known to use the &lt;b&gt;curves function&lt;/b&gt; to brighten an image.  It&apos;s located under &lt;b&gt;Image&lt;/b&gt; then &lt;b&gt;Adjustments&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Curves&lt;/b&gt; if you want to play around with it.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001yywp1&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001yzfzk&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Use control-E to flatten your image for the end result.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z0rhb&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Open a new canvas (control-N) and make your settings 100 px (w) by 100 px (h) with a resolution of 72.  I usually leave my canvas on transparent but you can make it any setting you choose since we&apos;ll be changing it later anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z12gf&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Now go back to the image you just cropped (your starting image).  Using your &lt;b&gt;eyedropper tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z2zwt&quot;&gt; select a nice, muted color from your image.  I chose a soft green color from the background of mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) In the newly made canvas (the 100x100 sized one), use your &lt;b&gt;paint bucket tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z3ch3&quot;&gt; and fill the layer with your chosen color.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) Go back to your 80x45 cropped image.  Hit control-a to select the entire image, control-c to copy it then on your new 100x100 canvas, use control-v to paste it on.  It will center your image.  I chose to move mine up towards the top.  To move your image, use the &lt;b&gt;move tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z4y4a&quot;&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z5053&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7) Next make a new layer (control-shift-n).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8) Now select a darker shade of the color you used for your background color by clicking on the foreground color &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z6ayq&quot;&gt; to bring up your color picker window.  Once you&apos;ve chosen your color, click on ok to get out of this window.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z7f4p&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z8rzb&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9) Now we want to fill an area the same size as our 80x45 image.  To easily select this, hold down the control key, click on the layer that has your 80x45 image and you&apos;ll see the marquee dotted line show up around the image.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z99pq&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make a new layer by using control-shift-n then using your &lt;b&gt;paint bucket tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z3ch3&quot;&gt; and filling the marquee area on your new layer.  (To get rid of the marquee, just press control-d).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zag1q&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next, set your color fill layer to &lt;b&gt;soft light&lt;/b&gt; 100%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zbprw&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Note&lt;/b&gt;: The reason we don&apos;t fill the entire layer is because it would change our background color as well.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10) Go back to the original 80x45 image you made for your base and copy it again (control-a to select the entire image, control-c to copy) then return to your 100x100 icon and control-v to paste in the 80x45 image.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11) Desature the new 80x45 image by pressing control-shift-u (or go up to &lt;b&gt;Image&lt;/b&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Adjustments&lt;/b&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Desature&lt;/b&gt;).   Your icons should now look something like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zcb10&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12) Now we&apos;ll move the desaturated layer down once again using the &lt;b&gt;move tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z4y4a&quot;&gt;.  If you want to ensure that the desaturated layer remains lined up with our colored layer, hold down the shift key while moving the desaturated layer.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zdc0x&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13) Repeat step 9, except make sure you click on the desaturated layer this time.  The soft light layer will take away from the harshness of the greyscale layer without making it monochrome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zeqqb&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14) For my text, I chose a darker shade of my background color.  Georgia is a good font to use, but you don&apos;t have to use this one.  Experiment with your fonts!  I chose the word BROTHERS because it suits the image.  Sasuke and Itachi are siblings, in case you aren&apos;t familiar with the series Naruto.  After I type my word in, I use the &lt;b&gt;move tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z4y4a&quot;&gt; again to line it up in a place satisfactory to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zfkwf&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15) I then added tiny text.  Some people like it, some people don&apos;t.  You don&apos;t have to use it.  I used a brush by &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;sanami243&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=sanami243&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=sanami243&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sanami243&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; @ &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;ownthesunshine&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/ownthesunshine/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/ownthesunshine/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ownthesunshine&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; but if you&apos;re not as lazy as I am, typing in something random using georgia at size 1 or 2 works just as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zgx4k&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16) Finally, I finished up my icon by using a light texture by &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;lihana&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://lihana.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://lihana.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;lihana&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zhzbq&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The first thing I did to it was copy and paste it onto my layers so it was at the very top.  Next I went to &lt;b&gt;Edit&lt;/b&gt; - &lt;b&gt;Free Transform&lt;/b&gt; so I could change the size of the light texture.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zkhdp&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on the chain to keep the aspect ration, so it doesn&apos;t warp your texture.  Change the 100% to 50% after you&apos;ve clicked the chain, and it will make the light texture half the original size.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zp707&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Set the light texture to screen then use your &lt;b&gt;move tool&lt;/b&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001z4y4a&quot;&gt; to bring it up over the colored image of your subject(s).  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viola!  You&apos;re done.   Show me what you come up with. :)  Remember, tutorials are meant to be a guide, so experiment and have some fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001zq8tc&quot;&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/125060.html</comments>
  <category>photoshop 7.0</category>
  <category>ps 7.0</category>
  <category>icon tutorial</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/124851.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:42:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Updates:</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/124851.html</link>
  <description>Well, I finally caught up with my e-mail.  If you e-mailed me and did not receive a response, it may have been filter out as junk mail.  Leave me a comment here and I&apos;ll get it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On another note, I&apos;ve been a busy bee lately (but not an &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;angrybee&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://angrybee.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://angrybee.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;angrybee&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; har har).  During the week that I had no internet, I managed to complete two songs which are available on my music myspace page &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.myspace.com/digitaleyevee&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; to download or listen to online.  The song titles are Heaven and Mechanic.  Not all my music is listed there, since you&apos;re only allowed 4 songs up at a time.   As I complete more tracks I&apos;ll upload them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve been working on new textures and hopefully will have some new sets up by the first of August.  I&apos;m taking a little break for now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a more personal note, I received new word that the men will be coming home between September 21st and October 6th.  Can&apos;t wait to see my husband.  Thankfully time has really flown by these past couple months.  I&apos;ll be good to have him home.</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/124851.html</comments>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/124571.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:34:23 GMT</pubDate>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/124571.html</link>
  <description>Hey everyone.  I&apos;m back online and working as quickly as possible to respond to e-mails (I have over 300 non-junk e-mail to respond to).  Please forgive slow delays and if you don&apos;t hear from my by Monday, assumed that it got bounced for a full mailbox or sorted into junk mail and just re-email me. Thank you!</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/124571.html</comments>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/124338.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:23:17 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>No access.</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/124338.html</link>
  <description>cdg has no internet access until Saturday due to a storm which hit her area.  She is otherwise okay!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Posted by &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;angrybee&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://angrybee.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://angrybee.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;angrybee&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/124338.html</comments>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123966.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Icon Tutorial (PS CS3, Originally made in PS 7.0)</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123966.html</link>
  <description>This tutorial assumes you know the basic functions and terminology associated with photoshop.  All examples used in this tutorial will have SAMPLE written on them to avoid having this tutorial copied step by step.  Tutorials are meant to be a guide only.  This icon placed &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/bishoujo_awards/186006.html&quot;&gt;second and most creative&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;bishoujo_awards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bishoujo_awards/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bishoujo_awards/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;bishoujo_awards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.  This tutorial is not dial-up friendly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellspacing=&quot;4&quot; style=&quot;background-color:&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://img112.imageshack.us/my.php?image=septembreoctobrees5.jpg&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3742/septembreoctobrees5.th.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://i10.tinypic.com/535e6g6.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;color:#000000;text-align:center&quot;&gt;&lt;small&gt;From this&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style=&quot;color:#000000;text-align:center&quot;&gt;&lt;small&gt;to this.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Find your image.  I used Orihime from &lt;a href=&quot;http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/3742/septembreoctobrees5.jpg&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt;.  Before I cropped it, I painted the background white behind her as it was easier to do while the image was still enlarged.  (You can use your lasso tool to go around your subject and copy/paste on a new layer if you prefer.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Once your background is white, use your &lt;b&gt;cropping tool&lt;/b&gt; to crop your image.  Be artistic.  Center cropping is bland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xh0tf&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) I used selective coloring to enhance my base&apos;s colors.  I&apos;ll give you my settings, but chances are they wont look as nice on your base unless it&apos;s similar in color.  Just play around with it.  To add a selective coloring layer, do the folowing:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LAYER -&amp;gt; NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER -&amp;gt; SELECTIVE COLORING&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My settings:&lt;br /&gt;Reds: 0, 0, 0, +22&lt;br /&gt;Yellow: +31, +69, -45, +9&lt;br /&gt;Cyans: +100, +48, 0, 0&lt;br /&gt;Blues: 0, 0, 0, +40&lt;br /&gt;Neutrals: 0, 0, 0, +20&lt;br /&gt;Blacks: 0, 0, 0, +40&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Like I said, play with the settings to enhance the colors of your base.  You might not even need to do this with your image.  Mine was just a little dull.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xkw37&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Next I took this blue floral texture from one of my floral texture packs and set it on the layer &lt;u&gt;above&lt;/u&gt; my selective color layer and set it on multiply:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xp3ea&quot;&gt; - &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xq61e&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) There are a few ways to remove the blue from her.  You can add a layer mask and then enlarge the image to erase where her body is or you can do what I did.  Using my &lt;b&gt;magic wand tool&lt;/b&gt;, I highlighted Orihime&apos;s base on my layers list, then clicked on the white area of the base around Orihime to highlight the area:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001y8btw&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go back to your layers list, highlight the layer that has your texture then click on the &lt;b&gt;add vector mask&lt;/b&gt; icon.  When you click on that function, the marquee will go away and cut out Orihime from your texture layer without cutting up the texture itself:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xrprh&quot; align=&quot;top&quot;&gt; - &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xsa7w&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) Next, I took another texture (from my purple floral textures pack), pasted it above the blue floral layer and set it on saturation 100%:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xt0y6&quot;&gt; - &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xw4h9&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;7)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt; This step will be repeated in the future.  I&apos;ll refer you back to step 7 when it gets used again.  Now we need to cut out Orihime.  It&apos;s easier to do this time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Holding down the control key, click on the layer mask that we made in step 5.  When you do this, it will highlight the same area we want to keep on our new texture layer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xxg4z&quot; align=&quot;top&quot;&gt; - &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xykft&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make sure that your new texture layer is highlighten (the purple one) and use the &lt;b&gt;add vector mask&lt;/b&gt; again.  You&apos;ll be left with the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xz6rt&quot; align=&quot;top&quot;&gt; - &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001y0pc9&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8) Next I &lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;repeated step 7&lt;/font&gt; using this texture (also in my purple floral textures pack) set on soft light 100%:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001y1wfh&quot;&gt; - &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001y2sk1&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9) Make a new layer, set to color burn 20% and fill it with #D07373:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001y3ef3&quot;&gt; - &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001y44tz&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10) I took this light texture from &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;conspiracyicons&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/conspiracyicons/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/conspiracyicons/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;conspiracyicons&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;strike&gt;because I&apos;m too lazy to make my own&lt;/strike&gt; and set it on the top layer on screen.  I then rotated it to my liking. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001y5dsy&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&apos;re done!  I added some tiny text for the &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;bishoujo_awards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bishoujo_awards/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bishoujo_awards/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;bishoujo_awards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; theme but I prefer the second example with the text better:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001y6ag8&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001y7qtw&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://i13.tinypic.com/4kales6.png&quot;&gt;screenshot of the layers list&lt;/a&gt;, in case you are confused.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to ask questions.  I&apos;d really like to see what you come up with.&lt;br /&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123966.html</comments>
  <category>ps cs3</category>
  <category>photoshop 7.0</category>
  <category>ps 7.0</category>
  <category>icon tutorial</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123694.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:01:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>32 new textured bases (green)</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123694.html</link>
  <description>&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;(made with stock images)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Comments &lt;font color=&quot;#ffff00&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;rock&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/font&gt;. XD&lt;br /&gt;* Credit is not needed.&lt;br /&gt;* No reposting anywhere else (without permission).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/greentextures/greenpreview.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; width=&quot;314&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/greentextures/cdg-greentextures.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you checked out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/&quot;&gt;rest of my journal&lt;/a&gt; for other image packs? Have you seen some of the older ones on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/&quot;&gt;my website&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking for my screencaps? &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/113199.html&quot;&gt;Check this list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&apos;t be afraid to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=cdg&quot;&gt;friend me&lt;/a&gt; to watch for new icon extras!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you&apos;re a fan of investigative forensics shows such as Dexter, Bones, CSI (any of them) or any others, you should definitely go head over to &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;forensics_itest&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold;&apos;&gt;forensics_itest&lt;/span&gt; and participate in the first theme that goes up tomorrow.  I&apos;m running it &amp;hearts; and I want to see your icons there! :)  Check the user info for a full list of accepted shows for the community!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&apos;t forget to check out my affiliates too!  They&apos;re some of my favorite resource makers. &amp;hearts; &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;colorfilter&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://colorfilter.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://colorfilter.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;colorfilter&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;_iconographer&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://users.livejournal.com/_iconographer/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://users.livejournal.com/_iconographer/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;_iconographer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;soaked&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/soaked/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/soaked/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;soaked&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp; &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;millepetit&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://millepetit.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://millepetit.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;millepetit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123694.html</comments>
  <category>textures</category>
  <lj:music>LM.C - OH MY JULIET</lj:music>
  <lj:mood>awake</lj:mood>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123601.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:32:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Awards - updated 9-17-07</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123601.html</link>
  <description>All banners prior to March of 2007 are located &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.animechild.com/awards.htm&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.   I&apos;m missing all sorts of banners due to slack banner makers.  I&apos;m not even going to bother to put up winning icons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;akatsuki_awards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/akatsuki_awards/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/akatsuki_awards/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;akatsuki_awards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001techd&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001tfp5z&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anime Chorus @ GJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001tg43g&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001thefr&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001tkaar&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001tp8wq&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001tqbb7&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001trs1h&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001tsf1c&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001tt14c&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e3h8q&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e411g&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;anime_medley&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/anime_medley/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/anime_medley/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;anime_medley&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001twfqf&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001txf58&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001tysdh&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;anime_spectrum&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/anime_spectrum/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/anime_spectrum/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;anime_spectrum&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e54we&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;birlikte&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold;&apos;&gt;birlikte&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001tze3f&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w00k9&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w1ypz&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w2ya6&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w3sz6&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;bishoujo_awards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bishoujo_awards/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bishoujo_awards/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;bishoujo_awards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w4gb1&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w5z2z&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e7fxp&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e8dge&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e97kb&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002eaebq&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002ebs2b&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;bishounenawards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bishounenawards/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bishounenawards/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;bishounenawards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w63a0&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e1xs5&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;bleach_icontest&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bleach_icontest/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/bleach_icontest/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;bleach_icontest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w7rhh&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002dzcft&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e0t0d&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;ff_awards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/ff_awards/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/ff_awards/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ff_awards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w8gb2&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001w9brp&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gravi Icontest @ GJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001waw16&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wbq9s&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;house_challenge&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/house_challenge/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/house_challenge/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;house_challenge&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wc2k5&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wd5t2&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wee40&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;hp_awards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/hp_awards/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/hp_awards/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;hp_awards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e2btd&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;hp_cof&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold;&apos;&gt;hp_cof&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wfy5z&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wg91p&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;kkm_itest&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/kkm_itest/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/kkm_itest/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;kkm_itest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001whakp&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;manga_icontest&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/manga_icontest/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/manga_icontest/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;manga_icontest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wk7zk&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002dy9tc&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;naruto_lyrical&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/naruto_lyrical/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/naruto_lyrical/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;naruto_lyrical&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wpf17&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;naruto_stills&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/naruto_stills/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/naruto_stills/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;naruto_stills&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wq2fq&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;ninja_stillness&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/ninja_stillness/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/ninja_stillness/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ninja_stillness&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wra4a&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;rockmusiclims&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/rockmusiclims/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/rockmusiclims/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;rockmusiclims&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002dsdqr&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002dt1wa&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002dwez1&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002dx7ap&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;sasuke_icontest&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/sasuke_icontest/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/sasuke_icontest/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;sasuke_icontest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001ws89d&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wt5w2&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wwc97&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;shinigami_lims&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/shinigami_lims/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/shinigami_lims/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;shinigami_lims&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002e6r5r&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;slash_icontest&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/slash_icontest/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/slash_icontest/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;slash_icontest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wxtzk&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;strayd0gstrut&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap; font-weight: bold;&apos;&gt;strayd0gstrut&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wydds&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001wztwt&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;textless_awards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/textless_awards/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/textless_awards/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;textless_awards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x0a5w&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x1pp6&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trifecta Awards @ GJ&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x26bk&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x30ke&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x4f0t&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;uchiha_stills&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/uchiha_stills/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/uchiha_stills/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;uchiha_stills&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x555k&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;wizard_icontest&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/wizard_icontest/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/wizard_icontest/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;wizard_icontest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x6rz0&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x7qkx&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x8g6f&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001x9b4g&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xax5s&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xb7a4&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xcc7b&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002ec170&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002edrz2&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002eehfd&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002ef2cd&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002egpsr&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002ehh41&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002ekah5&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002epp85&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002eq4h8&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002erw9r&quot;&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/002es2a9&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;yuna_awards&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/yuna_awards/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://community.livejournal.com/yuna_awards/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;yuna_awards&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xd5sr&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xe4cd&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xf02k&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://pics.livejournal.com/cdg/pic/001xgxsp&quot;&gt;</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123601.html</comments>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
<item>
  <guid isPermaLink='true'>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123082.html</guid>
  <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:56:29 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>2 new texture sets</title>
  <link>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123082.html</link>
  <description>&lt;font size=&quot;-2&quot;&gt;(made with stock images)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Comments are like &lt;font color=&quot;#ff00ff&quot;&gt;candy&lt;/font&gt;. XD&lt;br /&gt;* Credit is &lt;u&gt;not&lt;/u&gt; needed. &lt;br /&gt;* No reposting anywhere else (without permission).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/floral/bluepreview.png&quot; width=&quot;314&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/floral/cdg-bluetextures.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/floral/purplepreview.png&quot; width=&quot;314&quot; height=&quot;212&quot; title=&quot;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/texturedbases/floral/cdg-purpletextures.zip&quot;&gt;.zip&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you checked out the rest of &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/&quot;&gt;my journal&lt;/a&gt; for other image packs? Have you seen some of the older ones on &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdgbrushes.animechild.com/&quot;&gt;my website&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking for my screencaps? &lt;a href=&quot;http://cdg.livejournal.com/113199.html&quot;&gt;Check this list&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&apos;t be afraid to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=cdg&quot;&gt;friend me&lt;/a&gt; to watch for new icon extras!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Newest Affiliate: &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;millepetit&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://millepetit.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://millepetit.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;millepetit&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;!  Want to affiliate?  Leave me a comment (resource journals only please). :)</description>
  <comments>http://cdg.livejournal.com/123082.html</comments>
  <category>icon textures</category>
  <lj:security>public</lj:security>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
