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Originally posted on 17 March 2006: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/28334.html

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, paddies! Looking at your work always gives me a smile, which explains why you dominate my user pics. I hope your birthday has been an excellent one.

As a Stargate fan, I've learned that homage is the sincerest form of flattery, thus the rest of this post. I've been teaching myself more about Photoshop via tutorials and making icons. Here are some of the results.

The usual thing is to ask for comments and credit. I don't much care about credit so long as nobody claims them as their own work. Use as you see fit otherwise. Constructive criticism is welcome since that's the only way I'll improve.

43 Icons Total
- 26 Stargate SG-1
- 4 Stargate SG-1 Actors (Teryl Rothery, Amanda Tapping)
- 4 Stargate Atlantis
- 4 Battlestar Galactica (2003 version)
- 3 Pride & Prejudice (1995 BBC Version)
- 2 Colin Firth

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I have a lot more icons but posting this table was a pain because I kept changing my mind and added to the table after it was generated. I doubt I'll be posting this way again. If you're bored, I stashed my icons in my LJ Scrapbook. I had a lot of fun with Teal'c's Tally of Dead, False Gods. He strikes me as a guy who would keep count.

Not everything in my Scrapbook is snag-able as I made many for jalabert only. Those galleries/icons are labeled as, "not shareable," so please respect that. Otherwise, they're fair game.

Originally posted 27 June 2006: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/30071.html

58 Icons:
Stargate SG-1
- 7 Daniel Jackson
- 5 Teal'c
- 5 Jack O'Neill
- 5 Samantha Carter
- 6 Janet Fraiser
- 1 Sam & Daniel
- 1 Sam & Jack
- 6 Other (Team, Pops, Thor, Jacob/Selmak, NID, Gate)
- 6 Dead, False Gods
SGA
- 3 Elizabeth Weir
- 4 Teyla Emmagan
- 2 Rodney McKay
- 1 Radek Zelenka
- 2 John Sheppard
- 1 Wraith
- 1 Gate
Keith Hamilton Cobb

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( 42 SG-1 Icons )

( 14 SGA Icons )

( 2 Keith Hamilton Cobb )

Comments are treasured. Credit is nice but I don't really care; just don't be a dork and claim you made them, please. I keep my icons in my LJ Scrapbook if you want to browse by character/show.

One final icon, though it is not shareable:
Made for jalabert's brilliant SGA AU slash story, My Fair Liar.
It has a movie poster, too, which was original artwork done by deani_bean.

Originally posted 23 July 2006: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/31657.html

In case anyone surfs to my other icon post from work, the icons that anal corporate censors might get pissy over are in this post. I don't think they're bad but I was advised to play it safe for people who might be at work.

Battlestar Galactica: Not necessarily work-safe as 2 of the icons are from Apollo's Dance of the One Tiny Towel.

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Originally posted 23 July 2006: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/31112.html

Stargate SG-1
(10 Jack, 5 Sam, 5 Daniel, 2 Teal'c - also Cameron, Hammond, Janet, Lya, Maybourne, Pops, Sha're, Jack/Daniel, Pairings/Friendship/Team, Gate)
Stargate Atlantis
(3 Aiden, Rodney/Aiden, Landscape experiments)
Battlestar Galactica
(3 Work-safe -- 5 not necessarily work-safe)
Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC Version)
Calvin and Hobbes

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Comments appreciated - critique is welcome as I'm still learning. How else am I to learn? Credit is optional so long as nobody else claims to have made them.

Originally posted 11 August 2006: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/33417.html

38 SG-1 Icons
12 SGA Icons

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Comments are treasured. Suggestions for improvement welcomed. Credit is appreciated but, more importantly, please don't claim as your own work. Floss after meals and wear your seatbelt in moving vehicles.

Originally posted 12 October 2008: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/39289.html

25 SG-1
09 SG-1 Cast
22 Witchblade

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Comments are treasured. Credit is appreciated but, more importantly, please don't claim as your own work. Always wear a helmet when riding on motorcycles.

PLEASE NOTE: I welcome constructive criticism. I have allowed anonymous commenting on this post just in case that helps promote honesty. Thank you!

Originally posted 12 October 2006: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/39434.html

27 Dark Angel
13 Dark Angel/Supernatural Cast

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Comments are treasured. Credit is appreciated but, more importantly, please don't claim as your own work. Textless icons are not bases; please do not alter. Look both ways before crossing the street.

PLEASE NOTE: I welcome constructive criticism. I have allowed anonymous commenting on this post just in case that helps promote honesty. Thank you!

Originally posted 18 Nov 2006: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/43599.html

15 SG-1: 3 Jack, 4 Sam, 3 Daniel, 1 Teal'c, 3 Jack/Daniel, and 1 Sha're
21 SG-1 Cast Beefcake: 7 Amanda Tapping, 1 Amanda/ Don Davis, 5 RDA, 4 Michael Shanks, 2 Teryl Rothery, 2 Christopher Judge
10 Dark Angel: 2 Max, 1 Zack/Alec, 1 Zack/Max, 1 Zack, 3 Ben, 1 Ben/Max, 1 Alec
09 Torchwood: 2 Jack Harkness, 7 Gwen

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Comments are treasured. Credit is appreciated but, more importantly, please don't claim as your own work. Wipe your feet before entering the house.

As always, constructive criticism welcomed.

Originally posted 1 Jan 2007: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/45320.html

25 Stargate SG-1
10 Heroes
14 Torchwood
15 Dark Angel (Characters & Cast)
06 CSI (Vegas & Miami Flavors)

There's a joke, "The last thing I learned in college was bridge," and I'm thinking that bridge:college :: selective color:Photoshop. It's just so much damned fun to play with, though getting too wild with it degrades image clarity, making the pic go grainy. I'm fully aware of the frequent abuse of this nifty keen feature; hopefully I've limited the radioactive abominations to just a few. Perhaps some day soon my honeymoon with selective color will be over but until then, consider yourself warned.

My well of icon-fu was dry for the longest time. I'd open Photoshop, crop a pic, and mutilate it into the ugliest damned square possible before throwing my hands up in disgust, closing everything, and wandering off to do something less annoying. Like listen to talk radio. *grin*

I have no idea why a bunch of Jessica Alba promo pics got me back in the groove...but they did. *shrug* They were fun to play around with and a couple even placed in the stillness community where I got the pics. Go me. Anyhow, my need to jump start my lagging icon-fu led me to looking far and wide for inspirational caps -- thus the smörgåsbord of fandoms here.

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Comments are treasured. Credit is appreciated but, more importantly, please don't claim as your own work.

As always, constructive criticism welcomed.

Originally posted 28 Jan 2007: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/46818.html

30 SG-1
20 Dr. Who
14 Torchwood (Spoilers through all of Season 1)
05 John Barrowman

I loved the penultimate episode of Torchwood. *sigh* It's Captain Jack Harkness who keeps me watching even when the show fails to live up to its potential; John Barrowman has magnetism to spare. This wasn't meant as a, "I ♥ John Barrowman," post, but I now realize that's what it has become.

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Comments are treasured. Credit is appreciated but, more importantly, please don't claim as your own work. Always reapply sunscreen after swimming.

Constructive criticism welcomed.

Originally posted 6 April 2007:http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/51801.html

The loss of my Photoshop hard drive slowed me down but since I had backups of my most often used stuff and a detailed list of resources, I was able to get back the stuff I most needed. I'm still missing my screen cap collection like mad. My older collection of SG-1 caps were stored on a separate HD that didn't fail. Thus? Lots of SG-1 icons and icons made from caps provided by various challenges.

Some of the SG-1 icons have been inspired by conversations with my LJ friends. The Daniel icons probably won't be overly popular this time around but after a discussion over at riverfox's LJ about the way that his glasses frame our perception, pardon the pun, of the character, I wanted to celebrate his glasses. Or lack thereof. Also likely to lack an audience are the Daniel/Sam icons but after moonshayde wrote about getting flames for writing incest because she posted a Daniel/Sam story...well, I started seeing it again in some of my caps so I went with it.

50 Stargate - mostly SG-1, a couple of SGA
20 Dr. Who/Torchwood
06 Battlestar Galactica

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Comments are treasured. Credit is appreciated but not required; please don't claim as your own work. Wait 30 minutes after eating before jumping back into the pool.

Constructive criticism welcomed.

Originally posted 9 April 2007: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/52876.html

Mostly actors. A few icons from their television shows are lumped in here but mostly it's a Personality Post. *shrug* This mostly clears out my backlog of unposted stuff. I have some icons I was hoping would be released from challenges by now but I'm not willing to hold these any longer. I want them off my back.

- 15 John Barrowman
- 10 Jensen Ackles
- 15 Jessica Alba
- 10 Dark Angel/Supernatural (Dean)/Etc.
- 19 Other Pretty Male Actors -- This is a complete grab bag of icons made for hunk_stillness and dw_stillness.

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Comments are treasured. Credit is appreciated but not required; please don't claim as your own work. Textless icons are not bases; please do not alter. Always use your inside voice if not outdoors.

Constructive criticism welcomed.

Originally posted 20 May 2007: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/57238.html

58 SG-1
02 SGA

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(I've included several icons made for challenges but then rejected in favor of "better" icons using the same cap. I like seeing how an icon maker "thinks" by looking at process. If this is annoyingly repetitive let me know and I will limit future posts to just the better ones.)

( Hi ho, hi ho... )

Comments are treasured. Credit is appreciated but not required; please don't claim as your own work. Look both ways before crossing the street.

Constructive criticism welcomed.

Originally posted 6 August 2007: http://community.livejournal.com/isapiens/5911.html

I was hoping to have more new icons in celebration of International Blog Against Racism Week but I've run out of time. I started with pics snagged from the PicSpam in Sage-Theory's LJ, augmented it with a few pics from Eureka and Babylon 5, sprinkled in a tiny bit of CSI: NY at the request of jalabert, and couldn't resist pulling up some of my older icons to finish it off.

Fandoms represented: Andromeda, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Criminal Minds, CSI, CSI: NY, Dark Angel, Doctor Who, Dresden Files, Eureka, Firefly, Heroes, Lost, SG-1, SGA, Torchwood, Witchblade, Sin City, and Will Smith. Yes, Will Smith is a fandom unto himself.

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( Without further ado, a Celebration of Diversity in Sci Fi )
- Comments are treasured.
- Credit is appreciated but not required; please don't claim as your own work.
- If you want to add text related to IBAR, please do.
- Know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em.

Constructive criticism welcomed.

Originally posted 23 October 2006: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/40360.html

Lots of experiments in this batch -- many are a departure from my usual style but lately I've been playing. I wanted to get this posted before I leave town in a week. Thus, it isn't well-balanced amongst characters/shows or very many icons. *shrug*

20 Dark Angel, 5/6 SG-1, 3 versions of David Nykl (Zelenka on SGA), 6 Witchblade, 3 Tony Dinozzo (NCIS), 1 Stella Bonasera (CSI: NY)

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Comments are treasured. Credit is appreciated but, more importantly, please don't claim as your own work. Place your napkin in your lap before eating.

PLEASE NOTE: I welcome constructive criticism. I have allowed anonymous commenting on this post in case someone wishes to remain anonymous. Thank you!

Originally posted 8 July 2007: http://hsapiens.livejournal.com/63739.html

40 SGA
13 Stargate Cast as themselves or in other projects

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- Comments are treasured.
- Credit is appreciated but not required; please don't claim as your own work.
- Textless icons are not bases; please do not alter.
- Brush after each meal.</small>

Constructive criticism welcomed.

ETA:
- SGA caps come from various sources and were used in lantis_lims
- RDA caps come from various sources and were used in oneill_icontest
- MS caps were provided by whisper99

Originally posted 26 Aug 2007: http://community.livejournal.com/isapiens/6616.html

45 SG-1
10 SGA
04 Behind-The-Scenes Commentary on Stargate
05 Calvin & Hobbes
05 Eureka

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- Comments are treasured.
- Credit is appreciated but not required; please don't claim as your own work.
- Call your mother.

Originally posted 14 Oct 2007: http://community.livejournal.com/isapiens/6974.html

44 Stargate SG-1
10 Teryl Rothery & Michael Shanks as themselves or other roles
07 Eureka
25 Babylon 5

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Overall, not my favorite set. I haven't had much icon fu for the past month and I can see it in my lack of textures on a lot of these. However, these Janet Fraiser (SG-1) and Susan Ivanova (Babylon 5) icons have been burning a metaphorical hole in my pocket since right before I hit my slump so I'm posting regardless. EDIT: I didn't mean to imply people should bolster my ego. There are icons within this batch that I like. As a set, though, I'm less pleased than I'd like to be. Too many of these seem like something I could have made 8 months ago; I prefer to feel as if I'm improving.

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- Comments are treasured.
- Credit is appreciated but not required; please don't claim as your own work.
- Call your mother.

Originally posted 10 Feb 2008: http://community.livejournal.com/isapiens/7388.html

55 SG-1
05 Babylon 5

Small-ish and unvaried batch this time. It has been an uphill struggle to get back into the groove after having gone months without opening Photoshop. Some of these icons have been sitting on my hard drive for 6 months and I want them gone.

One word of caution: Teal'c has some new bling in one of the promo photos. I found it intriguing but I suppose some sensitive souls might consider it to be a spoiler.

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- Comments are treasured.
- Credit is appreciated but not required; please don't claim as your own work.
- Call your mother.