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Here are those Hawaii Five-0 icons I promised. Such pretty, pretty colors on this show!

As always, all icons are free to use. Please comment and credit.


Chin smiles!	aneurysm face	short angry Jersey boy	Kono = UNF

He'll LEARN to love me pineapple.	So damn GQ	Sometimes Steve's deliberately a jackass	smirk

**Before and after time! This was such a darling moment in the show, but holy crap the original lighting was impossible. Dammit, Daniel Dae Kim, face the light! It just wants to luuuuve you! In additional to the usual sharpening, this scene needed a lot of coaxing in the lighting department to bring Chin out of the shadows. Then I had to tone down the reds and yellows a bit because that original coloring was very...orange.


before	after

I got my hands on scans of The Umbrella Academy! I own both trade books and adore this comic to death. Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba are fantastic storytellers! I've got dozens of images picked out to iconize, but here's a teaser from the second trade book, Dallas. These three feature the villains Hazel and Cha-Cha and future villain John Perseus.


Oh hey. Check this out.	John Perseus works on his costume	Hazel and Cha-Cha visit Nazi Germany

Crossposts: http://cinaea.livejournal.com/8708.html

So the race is on. Damn this active-fandom business! Maybe it's just my anxiety issues talking, but if I'm to participate in a real-time fandom, I'm feeling pressure to not iconize the same moment as anyone else--which means I have to be first. Otherwise, I'd just be retreading old ground.

I thought I was ready for this, but then I got to go see Jonsi in concert last night. And tonight I got home late from work (and caught the only-available bus, which made me even later) only to discover I didn't have my house keys and my roommate was at class. But I had car keys! This naturally led to french toast for dinner at the local diner until she got home. Followed by baking and red wine and downloading the episode I'd missed.

In the end, I really only had time to make one before 1am. It's a GREAT moment in the show, and I'm determined to at least keep up with everyone else who is iconizing that exact same moment. (Also, I photoshopped the hell out of it and I think I really improved the focus and lighting.**)

Please. Take. I'm making more!

smirk of corruption

Handily the episode featured LOTS of scenes of the main characters all shined up in formal wear. Nrgh! More icons forthcoming this week (because finally I have time off work!).

**Oooh! I've been wanting to do this for a while now. Let's look at the before and after side by side, shall we? ...Yeah, that's what I thought. Blurry and dark and did I mention blurry? Yeesh.


before	after

Crossposts: http://cinaea.livejournal.com/8239.html

Another day, another new fandom! Last month I started watching Hawaii Five-0, which is cracky fun. They're a governor-established task force with carte blanche to violate ALL your civil rights in the pursuit of car chases and ridiculous action sequences! YEAH! I've been lured in by the gorgeous Hawaiian scenery and the delightful bickering. Scotty Caan plays a little ball of rage and proper procedure from New Jersey! JERSEY!!! WOOOO!!!

But I've noticed a depressing lack of Photoshop in the icons of this fledgling fandom, so for once I'm going to throw my hat in the ring with (gasp!) screenshots for an active fandom. Yikes, the pressure! There's a reason I've focused on mainly non-fandom icons.

With screencaps of a live-action show, I'm finding that the best tactic seems to be to hyper-sharpen the character(s) in the foreground, blur/dim/desaturate the background slightly, and add some kind of light/texture effect or text to give it that polished look.

Feel free to take any of these icons. Please comment and credit.


Oh wait, I AM A DETECTIVE!	Evidence is suuuper sexxy	Kono by the sea	One guess who's on the phone with Danny

Meanwhile, I finally finished reading The Losers comics, and there was much screencapping. I love ALL their little faces. SO. HARD. Boys! Aisha! Stegler! And WTF is up with that LOLtastic backstory for Max? And so with a cry of "Nukes for New Jerusalem!" here are seven new icons.

Feel free to take any of these icons. Please comment and credit.


My name is MAX	Security Solutions by Clay	You wanna be a good guy, go hug a tree	Roque has to run some errands

Who's the Big Dog? Clay's the Big Dog	Sometimes Clay's plans are very simple	One of those questions you never wanna hear...