Round Three

In fourth place, we have hermygirl!


Third place goes to the awesome Roselyn!


In second place we ALSO have hermygirl!


In first place, our winner is.... sweetpinkpixie!!!!!


Congratulations to all who entered and voted, and again, thank you ALL for the fabulous turnout!!!!! A complete list of who entered what is below. Please remember to credit the graphics-makers if you wear their icons.

Text Cut: you're ALL winners in MY book <3

01. Lizasaurus
02. SilverTiger
03. hermionesclone
04. ScarletCharm104
05. hermygirl
06. Tegz
07. Becky
08. Princesspower
09. ScarletCharm104
10. sweetpinkpixie
11. Princesspower
12. lazykitty
13. hermygirl
14. sweetpinkpixie
15. SilverTiger
16. Roselyn
17. Enigma
18. Lizasaurus
19. Roselyn
20. Becky
21. Tegz
22. Enigma
23. hermionesclone

Next challenge + advice from our third, third-place winner will be posted soon!

An Icon Competition; Use the Word Below:

fall

• The above theme must be prominently featured in your icon. But you do not have to have the word 'fall' in it.
• 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 ONE WEEK AND A HALF from the date and time of this post to PM me your entries. So let's say your entry should be in by OCTOBER 31 at 2:30pm EST.
• Good luck!

Our last third-place winner, Roselyn, had this great advice for us on how she made her third-place icon in 1w1p: round three. Rose has also won fourth in round two!

SPOILER!!: Rose's advice and tippy tip!

Feel free to really experiment with your graphics. Get out of your comfort zone and try something new. What I've recently discovered I liked doing was darkening the whites of an image to lower the contrast between the dark and light colors. While the image won't have that crystal clear "pop", it'll give the image a more vintage feel to it. There are two ways you can do this.

FIRST: The Selective Color Tool

Step 1: Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Selective Coloring. Mess around with the rest of the coloring if you'd like beforehand, but the important step we're going to do will be in the "Whites" coloring. You don't need to change the amount significantly. Sliding the last arrow to the RIGHT side will darken the whites.

WHITES
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SECOND: The Darken Color Layer

Step 1: Create a new layer, preferably on top of your other layers. Fill the layer with a solid color. Darker grays usually work well, but it's up to you on what color fits best with the image. I used a #e2af9e for this picture, which is a sort of mellow pink.

Step 2: Change the layer setting to "Darken". You'll want to lower the opacity of the layer, and depending on the picture and your color, that could be as much as lowering down to 10%. I lowered the opacity down to 50% here.

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And there you have it. :3

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

An Icon Competition Featuring the Word "FALL"

Round Four


Third place goes to the awesome Roselyn!


In second place we have the lovely sarahlooo!


In first place, our winner is.... Roselyn!!!!!


Congratulations to all who entered and voted, and again, thank you ALL for the fabulous turnout!!!!! A complete list of who entered what is below. Please remember to credit the graphics-makers if you wear their icons.

Text Cut: you're ALL winners in MY book <3

1. sarahlooo
2. Tegz
3. ScarletCharm104
4. hermygirl
5. SilverTiger
6. Govoni
7. Roselyn
8. Becky
9. Roselyn
10. Govoni
11. SilverTiger
12. sarahlooo
13. Becky
14. Tegz
15. Lizasaurus
16. Cassirin
17. hermygirl
18. Lizasaurus
19. ScarletCharm104
20. Cassirin

Sorry I did not reward our fourth-place winners this time; we had a two-way tie between two icons by hermygirl. Great job though, everyone!

Next challenge + advice from our fourth, second-place winner will be posted soon!

An Icon Competition; Use the Image Below


click for larger image {flickr.com}

• 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!