Article by 
Snerkie
posted
1 year ago
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Well the title doesn't explain it very well so I'll explain it a bit better :)
I am a huge wrestling fan, love it. I've gone to 5 big events, 1 medium and god knows how many little ones. Taken photos at 4 of them and as I've started to realise from communities around the place the photos I've taken are noticed and acknowledged by others.
My greatest compliment that I found myself so proud was someone on LiveJournal was in the same community as me and I posted some photos I had taken at an event. A while after she told me she had looked on Wikipedia for a wrestler and seen a photo and she remembered it was my photo :) I was proud that people had noticed it was mine (and to note I do not add my own photos to Wikipedia or ask others to, people just do it because I am a genius at plugging, creating good keywords and putting a licence that makes me happy)
Also what comes with my strong love for wrestling is that I want to give back to the fans that help it so I never force people to credit me when using my photos, if they enjoy them it's what makes me happy.
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Well I noticed that in the "show off your best" people said they had trouble in a way with creating icons they liked. I go the simple but effective way with icons all the time...and usually people enjoy them, yay! Because who doesn't like some nice colouring? (this was all done in photoshop CS2, I'm pretty sure it can be done is other photoshops and possibly other programs)
Any ways to start off get a picture that is clear (try really hard to do this because it'll make everything easier for you, but it doesn't always matter)
Step 1: Choose your image
Step 2: Resize it to 100x100 so what you want to be shown in the icon is being shown clearly
Step 3: Now...I am a dirty cheater when it comes to step 3, lol. Actions are gods gift to...everything <3 love you actions.
(What actions are, is they are a group of steps you can just click play instead of having to do them individually by yourself. This is super helpful if you create or find a good one)
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Opinion by
Snerkie
posted
1 year ago
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Okay, I always (or when I remember...or did) put "upped the colours" at the end of my posted photographs when I post them so people understand. But then I thought to myself just then "maybe people don't really understand what I mean when I say it" so I thought that I'd explain it and also how I feel about colour alterations. Some people believe changing the colour is often photography manipulation so thought I'd share my view.
Now when I say "upped the colours", what I mean is I used one of my photo actions (the one I posted in the icon tutorial I made not long ago). This mainly makes the icon a lot brighter and how I would want it to look if I had a fancy camera with fancy lenses...buuuuttt I don't so I have to do all this in Photoshop instead.
Personally I don't find it as a photo manipulation, it's still the same photo, it's not a huge extreme of the before and after but it creates a great impact of the effect of how the photo looks in the end. It shows the atmosphere, the detailing, everything I can see in person but not when it gets to my computer screen properly. To me photo manip. is mainly altering the photo greatly, changing huge things so it can...
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