Hi,
i was wondering if anyone has tutorials to bright, vibrant colorings?
the coloring makes black blacker and the contrast bigger, but not too strong at the same time.
such as

01-28 tv: gossip girl
29-34 tv: true blood
35-48 tv: skins
49-53 tv: the vampire diaries
54-74 celebs: robert pattinson, kristen stewart, scarlett johanson, katy perry, penn badgley, taylor momsen, megan fox, lady gaga, blake lively, leighton meester
75-82 fashion



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THE SUNDAY SCREENING!

Here is the weekly post for the community to rewatch The Original Series of Star Trek and discuss it in the comments. This week's episode is...


What Little Girls Are Made Of?

Feel free to watch the episode today, or if you have already watched it, discuss it with other community members. If you're not sure what to write, but want to comment, perhaps consider questions such as:

What was your favourite part of the episode? Why?
What was your least favourite part? Why?
Who was your favourite character in the episode? Why?
Who was your least favourite character in the episode? Why?
What issues did you find interesting? Why?
What did you find completely ridiculous/worthy of lulz? Why?

As we are following Memory Alpha's episode order, next Sunday we will be watching Dagger Of The Mind.

As a reminder, all three series are available to download in this community.

One
Two
Three

Have fun! ♥

Hello everyone!
Does somebody know some tutorials for the icons like these?

I'm using Image Ready CS2
Thank you so much in advance

I remembered reading these in an old joke book of mind, so I searched for a version of it on the internet and was successful in finding one!

Hopefully this hasn't been posted up yet, if not, enjoy!

47 Things that Never Happen in Star Trek!

1. The Enterprise runs into a mysterious energy field of a type that it has encountered several times before.
2. The Enterprise goes to check up on a remote outpost of scientists, who are all perfectly all right.
3. The Enterprise comes across a Garden-of-Eden-like planet called Paradise, where everyone is happy all the time. However, everything is soon revealed to be exactly as it seems.
4. The crew of the Enterprise discover a totally new lifeform, which later turns out to be a rather well-known old lifeform, wearing a silly hat.
5. The crew of the Enterprise are struck by a strange alien plague, for which the cure is found in the well-stocked sickbay.
6. An enigmatic being composed of pure energy attempts to interface to the Enterprise's computer, only to find out that it has forgotten to bring the right leads.
7. A power surge on the Bridge is rapidly and correctly diagnosed as a faulty capacitor by the highly-trained and competent engineering staff.
8. A power surge on the Bridge is fails to electrocute the user of a computer panel, due to a highly sophisticated 24th century surge-protection feature called a "fuse."
9. The Enterprise ferries an alien VIP from one place to another without serious incident.
10. The Enterprise is captured by a vastly superior alien intelligence which does not put them on trial.
11. The Enterprise separates as soon as there is any danger.
12. The Enterprise gets involved in an enigmatic, stange, and dangerous situation, and there are no pesky aliens they can blame it on in the end.
13. The Enterprise is captured by a vastly inferior alien intelligence, which they easily pacify by offering it some sweeties.
14. The Enterprise is involved in a bizarre time-warp phenomenon, which is in no way connected with the 20th century.
15. Somebody takes out a shuttle and it doesn't explode or crash.
16. A major Starfleet emergency breaks out near the Enterprise, but fortunately some other ships in the area are able to deal with it to everyone's satisfaction.
17. The shields on the Enterprise stay up during a battle.
18. The Enterprise visits the Klingon Homeworld on a bright, sunny day.
19. An attempt at undermining the Klingon-Federation alliance is discovered without anyone noting that such an attempt, if successful, "would represent a fundamental shift of power throughout the quadrant."
20. A major character spends the entire episode in the Holodeck without a single malfunction trapping him/her there.
21. Picard hears the door chime and doesn't bother to say "Come."
22. Picard doesn't answer a suggestion with "Make it so"!
23. Picard walks up to the replicator and says, "Coke on ice."
24. Counsellor Troi states something other than the blindingly obvious.
25. Mood rings come back in style, jeopardizing Counselor Troi's position.
26. Worf and Troi finally decide to get married, only to have Kate Pulaski show up and disrupt the wedding by shouting, "Did he read you love poetry?! Did he serve you poisonous tea?! He's mine!"
27. When Worf tells the bridge officers that something is entering visual range no one says "On screen."
28. Worf actually gives another vessel more than two seconds to respond to one of the Enterprise's hails.
29. Worf kills Wesley by mistake in the holodeck. (Pity this wasn't done in "Cause and Effect" then we could have seen it five times without rewinding the tape!)
30. Wesley Crusher gets beaten up by his classmates for being a smarmy git, and consequently has a go at making some friends of his own age for a change.
31. Wesley saves the ship, the Federation, and the Universe as we know it, and everyone is grateful (including the 'Net).
32. The warp engines start playing up a bit, but seem to sort themselves out after a while without any intervention from boy genius Wesley Crusher.
33. Wesley Crusher tries to upgrade the warp drive and they work better than ever.
34. Beverly Crusher manages to go through a whole episode without having a hot flash and getting breathless every time Picard is in the room.
35. Guinan forgets herself, and breaks into a stand-up comedy routine.
36. Data falls in love with the replicator.
37. Kirk (or Riker) falls in love with a woman on a planet he visits, and isn't tragically separated from her at the end of the episode.
38. The Captain has to make a difficult decision about a less-advanced people which is made a great deal easier by the Starfleet Prime Directive.
39. An unknown ensign beams down as part of an away team and lives to tell the tale.
40. Spock or Data is fired from his high-ranking position for not being able to understand the most basic nuances of about one in three sentences that anyone says to him.
41. Kirk's hair remains consistent for more that one consecutive episode.
42. Kirk gets into a fistfight and doesn't rip his shirt.
43. Kirk doesn't get into a fistfight.
44. Kirk doesn't end up kissing the troubled guest-female before she doesn't sacrifice herself for him.
45. Scotty doesn't mention the laws of physics.
46. Spock isn't the only crew member not affected by new weapon/attack by alien race/etc due to his "darn green blood" or "bizarre Vulcan physiology" and thus he cannot save the day.
47. The episode ends without Bones and Kirk laughing at Spock's inability to understand the joke, and he doesn't raise his eyebrows!

I apologize for making so many McCoy macros, he's just TOO CUTE AND IRRESISTIBLE AND...AND...MACRO-ABLE. Though this one's pretty Kirk-ish.

Damn, I had too much fun with this one.

Hello all ♥ I was just curious if there were commentaries on the last few episodes of season 1 of Merlin and if they have been released in the UK yet, cause I haven’t heard anything. If there are commentaries I was also curious to who commentates on what episode? I’m from Australia and we got ripped off on the box set that was released; basically next to no special features.

A Southerly wind is blowing. Come on, temperature, drop drop!
In the meantime, I'm busy admiring David James Elliot's ass.

And filling in a meme!
You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out. (:
( clicky )

Title: Beautiful Girl - Merlin/Freya
Song: Beautiful Girl by Broken Iris
Characters/Pairing: Merlin/Freya
Spoilers: series 2 episode 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTRZp_V-WA4

14 ☇ Shakugan No Shana
09 ☇ Bakemonogatari
03 ☇ Teen Titans
01 ☇ Gokinjo Monogatari
01 ☇ Fullmetal Alchemist
05 ☇ One Piece (+1)
01 ☇ Toradora!
04 ☇ Spice & Wolf
28 ☇ Umineko No Naku Koro Ni
24 ☇ Sailor Moon (+1)
06 ☇ Kimi Ni Todoke (+1)



Over HERE @ meoto_icon

[30] The Lady of the Lake

PREVIEW
001	002	003

the rest are HERE @ iconsbysugah

Would anyone happen to have a tutorial on making PSD's (coloring ones)?

I'd appreciate it a lot! (:

title: placed all my trust at the foot of this hill
fandom, pairing: fnl (through 4.04), luke (slight luke/vince)
notes: 800-ish words, pg, unbeta'd, title comes from mumford & sons

He doesn’t give a damn what team he’s playing for as long as that team is on a bus headed straight out of Dillon...

FFVII: 48
Touhou: 77

Teasers:


(Even if I'm given between bewildering words, my heart is above the clouds.)

Here's the result of my first coloring. Probably didn't follow all the usual complexes, but I think it turned out well.

bishoujo senshi sailor moon : 1 colored scan, 4 icons( we kill the lights & put on a show )

(including;True Blood, The Big Bang Theory, Degrassi, Smallville, Going the Distance, Shiri Appleby, Skins Lauren Conrad, American Idol, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, So You Think You Can Dance, Rachel McAdams, Felicity, The Office, Weeds, Supernatural, High School Musical Cast, Taylor Latuner (w/ Taylor Swift + Kristen Stewart)

preview;




view them here

It's so hot right now. ;_;
I'm camped out downstairs watching JAG season 8, (omg wtf Admiral Chegwidden overboard) but there are times I reaaaally wish we had air-con. No breeze, it's all hot wind from the west. :(

I was drawing, but now my laptop is so hot it's toasting my lap!
( This is what I have so far )

picspam over here.

Download link and samples for Merlin 2x09 - The Lady of the Lake screencaps can be found HERE @ puchre.
2123 (624x352) unedited caps, 45.1 MB ZIP

Our week of 'Downloaded' has ended.

Next up... 'Lay Your Burdens Down, part 1'

【15】 spiral icons
【1】 spiral fo banner



( the notes of truth are starting to play. )

Hi there, I've a 3-piece furoku set of Code Geass for sale. Everything's under the cut.

( Code Geass Furoku 3-piece set )

Interested? Just leave your comments here!

Header: This is How the World Ends (Arthur/Merlin, Arthur/Gwen/Lancelot, Morgana)
Mixer: forbeornan
Number of songs: 45/3 albums
File format: mp3



( Individual album covers + tracklist. )

Full 21 page booklet + download links @ my journal here. Friends only but I'm always online and can add back quickly.

1-19 Doctor Who, "The Waters of Mars" and "The End of Time" trailer. Spoilers.
20-40 Merlin 2x07, series 1
41-43 Supernatural "Abandon All Hope"
44-49 Flight of the Conchords
50-53 Glee
54-55 White Collar






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Spot 23-year-old Leonard Nimoy in this Dragnet episode!
It's a very small role, the big (bad) boy finally shows up at 18:47 and 24:48.


Running Time: 26:14
Free Download (perfectly legal): www.archive.org/details/TheBigBoys

This is another clip from the Las Vegas convention this year:

Jacob: "We'll be prostitutes for them. Let's go!" (He was continuing on a running joke from Shatner.

Grab a tissue for this one. The 40 year tribute (includes all of the series):


These next ones are stuff from the pricey DVD boxsets of the TOS seasons.
( Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest, Rare Home Movies And Special Memories )

HELLSING
[x1]Alucard, [x3] Integra, [x1] young!Integra, [x12] Seras


preview:





get the rest here @ tsulalala

Title: Marooned
Author: Envinyatar
Pairing: Arthur/Merlin (primary), Lancelot/Merlin
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 4,837
Summary: Modern AU. Written for kinkme_merlin round 6, prompt: Arthur/Merlin, Lancelot/Merlin. Merlin is tired of his friends (Arthur, Gwen and Morgana) ditching him and doing stuff without including him all the time. He cuts himself off from them. Arthur comes around a couple of months later after realizing they haven't seen Merlin in a while and is shocked to find he's got a boyfriend named Lance ... something or other. Arthur is incredibly jealous and begins working on how to break them up and have Merlin all to himself again.

Notes: My first attempt at Arthur/Merlin fic, which makes me nervous as hell! Six nights ago they seized me and would not let go until I had a rough draft of this completed. This is unmitigated fluff which, admittedly, only bears a fleeting resemblance to the prompt.

Marooned

[10] K-ON!
[09] Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne
[11] Katekyo Hitman Reborn
[34] Shugo Chara! (anime and manga)
[64] Total ♥



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Summary - Four drabbles showing an alternative sad ending to the original drabble 'The Want For A Cure' (http://community.livejournal.com/merlinxarthur/1703136.html#cutid1)

Rating - PG-13

Warnings/Spoilers - Character Death

Disclaimer - I own nothing, due to my extreme poorness!

Notes - There is a Bradley/OC plot bunny in my journal. If someone would write that up for me, I would love them forever, as there are NO Bradley/OC fics out there...

Links - 'Before' Drabbles - http://community.livejournal.com/merlinxarthur/1712128.html#cutid1 Happy 'After' Drabbles - http://community.livejournal.com/merlinxarthur/1722581.html#cutid1

( Waiting, Death, Funeral, Sorry )

[57] Anime/Manga: Card Captor Sakura, Candy Candy, Kobato, Sailor Moon, Samurai Champloo.
[21] Cartoons: Count Duckula, Darwing Duck.
[76] Tv Show Quotes: Boy meets World, Grey’s Anatomy, Joan of Arcadia, Scrubs (two animated), The Simpsons (english and spanish), That 70s Show, Two guys and a girl, Will and Grace, Wings.

Notes:
* Feel free to friend me.
* Comments are nice and welcome.
* Resources at the end of the post.

Teasers:

1

2

3

Fake-cut

X-posted, sorry!

[10] Merlin Children in Need special '09
[53] Merlin 2x09 "The Lady of the Lake"

Spoiler warning! I have a tiny blurb about 2x09 at the end of the post which requires a spoiler warning as well.



more here.

Title: Reclamation
Pairing: Arthur/Gwen, Arthur/Merlin
Rating: PG
Word count: ~3000
Warnings/Spoilers: Up to 2x07, non-explicit references to troll!sex
A/N: Posting this here now that the challenge is finished at merlin_flashfic
Summary: For the merlin_flashfic challenge "healing."
Arthur is just thinking he may go mad trying to determine what has changed in the recent past when his shoulder gives a tiny twinge and it strikes him all in a flash.
The Questing Beast. The gaps in his memory had started after he was bitten by the Questing Beast.

Arthur is not used to feeling indecisive.

Usually I don't post much. But since I went to the Barbican for the BAFTA Event, I thought I would present some goodies. I have videos, an audio and a few images I will post. But just cos I'm tired, and I know there's always tommorrow, I will just post my full audio recording of the event, aswell as a video of the series 2 (part 2) trailer at my journal...there are many more videos to come...

(harry potter has to use a wand...)

PS. Sorry, some videos i post will have a bit muffled audio cos my stupid mic on the camera is next to where you hold it...stupid ergonomics, also the audio is a bit quiet.

EDITED: Prep & Actual Bradley & Katie Fighting the Stunt Co-ordinator and Stunt Woman has been uploaded...just cos its awesome and I couldn't resist XD.

(22) Hetalia
(07) Higurashi
(07) La Corda D'Oro
(08) Toward the Terra
(06) Misc.
= 50 icons

Teasers:




Find them here @ originatedinus

[12] Bioshock
[38] Zero Punctuation
[15] Dragon Age



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How FS submissions work:
Day 1: FS opens up Submissions Post AAA.
Day 1-7: People submit secrets that whole week.
Day 7: Submissions Post AAA closes.
Day 8-14: Secrets in Submissions Post AAA begin to be put up. FS opens up Submissions Post BBB.
Day 14: Secrets in Submissions Post AAA are done being posted. Submissions Post BBB is closed.
Day 15-21: Secrets in Submissions Post BBB begin to be put up. Submissions Post CCC is opened.
Rinse, repeat.

SECRETS SUBMITTED DURING ONE WEEK ARE POSTED STARTING ON SATURDAY OF THE NEXT WEEK.

( for more detail )

This IS in the FAQ, guys. Actually, MOST of the questions people ask are in the FAQ (hence why it's called the FAQ). C'mon.

... the first of which is Merlin/Arthur. The second video is non-slash and also crawling with spoilers for Lady of the Lake so watch out.

Info is below and both videos are at my journal here.

1. All My Love / t.A.T.u. / Merlin/Arthur

Storyline: Merlin and Arthur each know the other has feelings for them, but Arthur cannot face up to this as he realises he would be shunned by his father and his people. Gwen has fallen for Arthur too, but she is reluctant to act upon these feelings as she knows that Merlin cannot be without Arthur.

When Arthur finds out that Merlin possesses magic, he is convinced that they can never be together. He abuses Gwen's affection and seduces her, and Merlin is heartbroken. Desperate for Arthur to love him for who he is, he begs forgiveness for lying and offers Arthur all his love.

Song is All My Love, by t.A.T.u.
Clips are from Merlin and are copyright BBC and Shine.

Title: Flip of a Coin
Genre: Romance, Drama, Adventure, Action
Summary: An encounter with a stranger whilst hunting leaves Merlin’s magic within Arthur’s body. The Prince of Camelot now betrays the Kingdom with every little thought or action and the only person who can help him is his manservant as they both struggle with these new turn of events. Who is Merlin without his magic and what use is he to Arthur?
Warning: Violence, sex (in up-coming chapters)
Rating: PG-13 (for now)

Chapter One

4 Axis Powers Hetalia
[01] America
[01] England
[02] USUK

16 Code Geass
[02] Anya
[01] Gino
[04] Lelouch/Luluko
[05] Suzaku
[03] SuzaLulu
[01] GinoKal



( Have you heard of my religion? It's called the Church of Hot Addiction )

Two of my new homemade Merlin videos! Be wary of spoilers, especially in the second one. Info is below and both videos are at my journal here.

1. All My Love / t.A.T.u. / Merlin/Arthur

Storyline: Merlin and Arthur each know the other has feelings for them, but Arthur cannot face up to this as he realises he would be shunned by his father and his people. Gwen has fallen for Arthur too, but she is reluctant to act upon these feelings as she knows that Merlin cannot be without Arthur.

When Arthur finds out that Merlin possesses magic, he is convinced that they can never be together. He abuses Gwen's affection and seduces her, and Merlin is heartbroken. Desperate for Arthur to love him for who he is, he begs forgiveness for lying and offers Arthur all his love.

Song is All My Love, by t.A.T.u.
Clips are from Merlin and are copyright BBC and Shine.

2. [mini-vid] Howl- Florence + The Machine- Merlin and Freya

SPOILERS FOR THE LADY OF THE LAKE

Song is Howl by Florence + The Machine
Clips are from Merlin and are copyright BBC and Shine.

★ includes
{20} D.Gray-man
{60} Pokemon
{20} Hetalia
{25} Misc (Detective Conan, Code Geass)
{125} Total




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My photos from the Merlin BAFTA event today!

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