Decided to resurrect one of my LA Con 2009 photos and apply some of the filtering techniques I've learned recently. Still not as good as those I've done with elsiecat's photos since mine are not as sharp as hers.

Partially because I never pay enough attention to the non-Js/Misha. And Richard has such an expressive face. And because I'm absolutely addicted to elsiecat 's photos (I may never want to work with my own again...) And because I'm still experimenting with a new Photoshop filter...




photos by elsiecat . click to enlarge



border is transparent. click to enlarge.

Needed subject matter to experiment with new Photoshop filter, so I grabbed one of elsiecat 's J2 panel photos. Click to enlarge.

Okay...so I couldn't leave it alone. So one more tweek.



photos by elsiecat . click to enlarge. The border on this is semi-transparent, so it will show differently depending upon your background color.


The border on this one is fully transparent. Click to enlarge.

I had an all day meditation class yesterday. Pretty intensive. Kinda wiped me out -- in a good way but still very tiring. Good news is that among other things, participating in the class seems to have removed my insomnia--at least for one night anyway. Slept long and good last night.

Just one Misha header/banner--from elsiecat 's ChiCon 2009 photos. I want to do more with her photos--but it may take several days as I've got RL (Thanksgiving, etc) stuff coming up.



photos by elsiecat . click to enlarge

Photos by elsiecat . Click to enlarge.

Thanks to elsiecat and my insomnia of last night I now have a new layout.

I finally figured out that it was that darn black curtain backdrop that was messing with my Photoshop-fu in trying to make headers out of any J2 panel pics. While I liked some of my results, they were all so dark and I wanted something more lively.

So since I couldn't sleep last night...I ended up doing this. And I was very happy with the results. So I played some more to adapt one of them for a new header and came up with this...


It has a transparent background so the background colors you see will depend upon the background of the page you are viewing.

Then I played around with my layout and the final results are below.


Plus I made a shiny new icon to match! And I think this is the first icon I've ever made that I really like. (Not that I've made a lot, mind you.)

I really, really, really dislike insomnia. : /

But I'm getting a little closer to what I had in mind for these. I think I may need to choose a different Jensen image though. I didn't start out with this one going in this direction--so I may swap out both the Js for other J images. Right now I'm too sleep deprived to be discerning at all.

Photos are from elsiecat . Click to enlarge.











ETA: So I'm liking this. Made a few changes and am working on using the one below as my new header.

Damn, changing LJ layouts can be annoying sometimes...getting the colors, etc correct.

I still think I like simpler formats better. However I'm playing around with doing more than just a simple filter and framing. I like some of these better than others.

All the photos used here are from elsiecat 's Chicon 2009 J2 panel photos.

(click any of them to enlarge)


1) This one above is more the simple style I've been going with.

( more under the cut... )


.

Don't even hover on the link if you want to know NOTHING about the 100th episode, because the link name contains the "spoiler". I really do not consider this a spoiler--but I guess some might.

If this is true.

Then MAJOR SQUEE!!! I'm so happy for him!!!!!!! This is always where I thought he may end up.

ETA: So know I do not know if this is true or not. There seems to be some debate.

I just rewatched this week's Glee for the third time! I haven't done that recently for any other show other than SPN.

Needless to say, I really liked this episode.



.

I just now watched Ballads.

When it got to that last song I got tears in my eyes. I always loved that song when it first came out when I was young. I usually do not like remakes because they rarely measure up in my opinion. But this one exceeded the original.

I said I cried during tonight's SPN. Well I also got teary eyed watching Glee when they sang that last song. One was a sad cry. One was a warm-feeling cry. But they were both for the same reason. Love.

*dabs at eyes* man, I'm a sap sometimes.

I have to get that song Dl'd.

.

There. I feel better now.

Sheesh.

I'm posting this because perhaps I may like it in the morning. But right now I'm very doubtful of that. The Js are from elsiecat's wonderful Chicon J2 panel photos.

I wanted to try a header-type format with both Js in it. I wanted them looking at each other. But I pinky-swear that I was NOT going for lovey-dovey or cutsey. But it seemed like no matter what I tried I got either or both lovey-dovey or cutsey. *headdesk* And this is two images that I placed together so Jensen isn't even looking at Jared in the RL photo. Damn man, you have to stop looking at everyone that way.

The black curtains made it more challenging because I did not feel like cutting out the boys from the background. Heh. In the end that would have likely been faster! *g*

So whatever. I give up. I'm frustrated. And I think I have gremlins in my Macbook. Grrrr....




Oh! I did watch SPN 5x10... Should I say I cried? I cried. Damn show. *luvs*

ETA: Grumpy post is grumpy. I made an icon out of this as well. I really don't like making icons. They frustrate me even more because I never seem to put one together that satisfies me and they are so freakin' SMALL! *sigh*

I told myself I wasn't going to post today after my spamminess of the last few days. But then I got online and remembered it was SPN Thursday--and that always deserves a post. And it's a mid-season finale. And we have until about mid-January until the next episode (*sad face*).

And then I saw that elsiecat posted the first part of of her J2 panel photos. I DL'd and just about died. OMG. There are all so good. I've no idea how I'd even do anything with them because I'm just overwhelmed by them. I may just have to toss a coin to pick a subset of them to play with.

*sighs*

Life is hard! *grins*


Happy SPN Thursday everyone!

These are all from the marvelous wolfpup2000 . You can find her ChiCon J2 Breakfast photos here, here, and here.

I did some cropping, filtering, and framing on these. First up are some collages I did of some of her photos...


( lots (and lots) of images under the cut... )



.

A few more random photos from ChiCon.


( under the cut... )



.</center>

Again from asyouleft - the boys in black.

I understand that Aldis laid down on the stage floor at one point during his panel. I've haven't watched an Aldis panel vids yet, so I don't know what that was about. But asyouleft got some great photos of him at that point, so I did a couple of montages of him from her photos.

You can find other photos by her here. I may be doing more with some of her others later.



(click a couple of times to enlarge)

( another one under the cut... )







.