An Icon Competition; Use the Image Below


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• The above image must be prominently featured in your icon.
• You are allowed to enter up to TWO 100 x 100 and under 20 kb icons.
• Entries are ANONYMOUS. Do NOT tell people which are yours or post/tweet/VM/IM/etc. clues about your entries.
• You have NINE DAYS from the date and time of this post to PM me your entries. So let's say your entry should be in by February 3 at 8:50pm EST.
• Good luck!

Our last winner, sarahlooo, had this great advice for us on how she made the second place icon in 1w1p: round four.

SPOILER!!: advice/tip!

For my little bit of advice, I'm going to show you how to add a little more color to your photos by adjusting the black in the Selective Color tab. By adjusting the black, you can add different tints to the shadows to give it a certain feel. What I did in this photo was adjust the magenta into the negatives to create a green-ish tint to the darker parts of the photo.

I start with my photo with all other effects applied. It doesn't really matter what step you do this in, but this is usually the last step for me.

Go to Adjustments > Selective Color and select "Black" from the drop-down menu. Your options will be Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. Moving the arrow or any color to the right will increase the amount of that color in the black in your photo. Moving the arrow to the right will decrease the amount of that color and in turn, increase the amout of the opposite color. For example, decreasing Cyan will increase the Red. Decreasing Magenta will increase the Green. Decreasing Yellow will increase the Blue, and decreasing the Black will increase the White.

For this particular image, I chose to increase the Green by setting the Magenta to -16. You may have to use a larger amount depending on your photo, but it's as simple as that!

before ---> after --->

Good luck to all entering Round Five! Hope this tip helps!