Program(+version) I'm using: Photoshop CS3
Example(s) of the coloring I want to learn how to make + credit to the maker:

   
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My little "studio" apartment in Minneapolis. I moved in a year ago and still have some things I want to do but I've been dying to post here and I'm TOTALLY open and looking for ideas and constructive criticism!! Please feel free to comment- I will not take offense!!

( Before and Afters under the cut )

• 12:38 What's that Knockturn line from, @gryffindorgal87? #
• 12:48 Someone tweeted RIP David Tennant. I want to punch her in the ovaries. Shit ain't funny. #
• 17:31 Watching Word Girl on PBS Kids! :D #
• 21:30 Finn needs to stop getting solos. Needs more Artie. #
• 01:50 Robespierre freed the slaves in the late 1700s, but then Napoleon re-established slavery in 1802. Napoleon's on my shit list. #
• 02:36 My tummy hurts. What's that about? #
• 03:39 I'm black and pink. Very. #
• 04:08 Watching Princess Diaries 2 and one can tell this film is a little old because a Lindsay Lohan song played on the credits. Still had a job #

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Requested Icons: Fashion, Legend of the Seeker, Tudors, Ben Barnes, Emma Watson, Katie McGrath, Dead like me, Doctor Who, Milla Jovovich, Seth Rogen, Stock, Zooey Deschanel, Amanda Seyfried, The Libertine, Cradle of Filth, I Killed The Prom Queen, Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Thomas Kretschmann, Dax Shepard, Vampire Diaries

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Meryl Streep[29]
V from Vendetta[8]
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H E R E at diane91

I made a voice recording: the one in which Jay gets sappy and sentimental.

transcript.

So 2010 is upon us! And because I'm from the future (and by the future, I mean Australia), I'll be experiencing it in only a few hour's time. I just wanted to thank e-everyone for your continued love and support throughout this past year. It's really meant a lot to me. So I wish you a very happy New Year, take care, and I'll see you on the other side.

Someone please take this away from me. I really have no excuse.

Clickity-click for full thing.

( I'm the butt of the worst joke in history. )

Vanessa, Ashley, Miley, The Hills and lots of others...
   
...in my graphics journal!

Vanessa, Ashley, Miley, The Hills and lots of others...
   
...in my graphics journal!

Vanessa, Ashley, Miley, The Hills and lots of others...
   
...in my graphics journal!

1-37 X-Files
38-53 Battlestar Galactica
54-59 National Lampoon's Animal House (mostly Belushi)
60-69 old school soul/R&B/pop singers (Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Tammi Terrell, Sam Cooke, Etta James, Diana Ross, Florence Ballard)
70-102 CSI (LV)
103-115 CSI:Miami
116-123 CSI:NY
124 140x140 CSI Icon (sized for TalkCSI Forum)
125-127 CSI Wallpapers
+52 Set of 52 Textures

Been a while since I posted here:


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CREDIT:
★- Comments are ♥
★- Credit & watch visualwit for updates

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ICONS
96 ACTRESSES (Alexis Bledel, Anne Hathaway, Brittany Snow, Christina Ricci, Emily Browning, Eliza Dushku, Emma Watson, Famke Janssen, Grace Park, Heather Graham, Jessica Alba, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Bell, Kristen Kreuk, Milla Yovovich, Rose McGowen, Scarlett Johanssen, Winona Ryder, Zooey Deschanel)
26 ACTORS (Adrian Pasdar, Chris Pine, David Boreanaz, Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Weatherly, Topher Grace, Zach Levi, Zach Quinto)
31 MUSICIANS (Avril Lavigne, A Fine Frenzy, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift)
146 TV SHOWS (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Chuck, Defying Gravity, Dollhouse, Dresden Files, Firefly, Fringe, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, Life, NCIS: LA, Psych, Sanctuary, Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, Supernatural, Warehouse 13, White Collar)
34 MOVIES (Harry Potter 6, Star Trek 2009, Transformers)
38 STOCK and TEXTURES

WALLPAPAERS
2 AVRIL LAVIGNE
1 KIERA KNIGHTLY
1 WINONA RYDER
1 ZOOEY DESCHANEL

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ICONS
96 ACTRESSES (Alexis Bledel, Anne Hathaway, Brittany Snow, Christina Ricci, Emily Browning, Eliza Dushku, Emma Watson, Famke Janssen, Grace Park, Heather Graham, Jessica Alba, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Bell, Kristen Kreuk, Milla Yovovich, Rose McGowen, Scarlett Johanssen, Winona Ryder, Zooey Deschanel)
26 ACTORS (Adrian Pasdar, Chris Pine, David Boreanaz, Milo Ventimiglia, Michael Weatherly, Topher Grace, Zach Levi, Zach Quinto)
31 MUSICIANS (Avril Lavigne, A Fine Frenzy, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift)
146 TV SHOWS (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Chuck, Defying Gravity, Dollhouse, Dresden Files, Firefly, Fringe, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, Life, NCIS: LA, Psych, Sanctuary, Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, Supernatural, Warehouse 13, White Collar)
34 MOVIES (Harry Potter 6, Star Trek 2009, Transformers)
38 STOCK and TEXTURES

WALLPAPAERS
2 AVRIL LAVIGNE
1 KIERA KNIGHTLY
1 WINONA RYDER
1 ZOOEY DESCHANEL

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The rest ( here ) @ ella_in_spades 

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Regime Wages a Quiet War on 'Star Students' of Iran



Behind the drama unfolding in the streets of Iran, the regime is quietly clamping down on some of the nation's best students by derailing their academic and professional careers.

On Wednesday, progovernment militia attacked and beat students at a school in northeastern Iran. Since last Sunday's massive protests nationwide, dozens of university students have been arrested as part of an aggressive policy against what are known as Iran's "star students."

In most places, being a star means ranking top of the class, but in Iran it means your name appears on a list of students considered a threat by the intelligence ministry. It also means a partial or complete ban from education.

The term comes from the fact that some students have learned of their status by seeing stars printed next to their names on test results.
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Rep. Mark Kirk To Be Investigated For Possible DADT Violation

12/30/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire



Representative Mark Kirk may end up hoisted on his own petard. It all depends upon the investigation into allegations that his is gay. According to sources within the Pentagon, NCIS has to investigate the allegations made by Rep. Kirk’s opponent in the Republican primary. Andy Martin made the accusations against Rep. Kirk in a recent attack ad. While the ad has been resoundly denounced by the Republicans, the ad’s charges have come to the attention of the military since Rep. Kirk is a member of the Naval Reserves.
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I've got some bananabread batter in the oven, recipe says 350 for an hour... Problem being, there's no loaf-size pan at the house I'm at (?!) so I'm using these stupid aluminum "ovenware" things which I have no idea about. The loaf is divided among 4 of them.

How should I adjust the time? Adjusting the temp isn't an option as they're already in... :P

Private companies could own, operate and profit from reservoirs and other water-storage projects built with billions in taxpayer dollars under a little-noticed provision of the $11.1 billion water bond that was approved by the Legislature and goes before California voters next year.

Lawmakers barely discussed the provision while considering the bond, and water experts who were asked about it by The Chronicle said they knew little about it or why it was a necessary part of the plan to overhaul the state's water system.

The bond bill's author, state Sen. Dave Cogdill, R-Modesto, and other backers of the proposal said the provision provides the state with flexibility for how water storage projects can be financed.

Critics, however, said it opens the door to the privatization of the state's most precious resource as California's population grows and water becomes more scarce. California historically has retained control of publicly financed water projects. Privatization could allow companies to profit by selling back to the public a resource that is essentially the lifeblood of the state economy, or using it for their own profit-making interests like agriculture.

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Source: SF Gate

Eight GOP Senators Opposed Bill That Funded Airport Screening And Explosive Detection

Some of the same Republican lawmakers currently criticizing the President for softness on terrorism voted back in July 2007 against legislation that, among other reforms, provided $250 million for airport screening and explosive detection equipment.

The Improving America's Security Act of 2007 was a relatively non-controversial measure that effectively implemented several un-acted-upon recommendations from the 9/11 Commission. Eighty-five Senators voted in favor of the bill's passage. Seven missed the vote (several of whom were on the campaign trail, including Barack Obama, John McCain and Chris Dodd).

Eight Republican Senators, however, voted against passage, including Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), Tom Coburn (R-Okl.) Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), James Inhofe (R-Okl.) and Jon Kyl (R-Ari.).
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Iranian women attend a pro-government rally Wednesday in Tehran with a poster showing Aayatollahs Khomeini and Khameini.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/30/iran.rallies/index.html

(CNN) -- Iran's parliament has asked authorities to arrest "the main instigators and directors" of Sunday's violent anti-government protests, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday, the same day massive pro-government rallies were held in Tehran and other cities.

Legislator Hassan Noroozi named three people he said "must be arrested": Mehdi Karoubi, Mir Hossein Moussavi and Fa'ezeh Hashemi. Karoubi and Moussavi are opposition politicians who challenged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June's elections. Hashemi is the daughter of the former reformist president, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

"They must not remain on the sidelines and be safe," Noroozi said. "Those who issue statements and invite people to create chaos in the streets and attack one another must be dealt with according to Islamic laws."

In Sunday's protests, at least seven demonstrators were killed in clashes with security forces, although the Iranian government has denied that its security forces killed anyone.

Still, a video released Tuesday appeared to show green and white Iranian police vehicles driving into crowds of protesters and running over at least one. Other videos purported to show people said to have been killed by the police vehicles. Iranian authorities reported that most of the seven dead had died after being struck with "hard objects or due to similar causes," according to chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi.
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Thoughts in 140 characters
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• 14:23 Is it wrong that I wouldn't mind it if Hodgins made sweet, sweet love to me? #
• 14:30 @mialopolis525 DID YOU READ THE HUNGER GAMES #
• 14:31 @moonyinspades shit son I think I'm in love #
• 14:32 @moonyinspades I DID #
• 14:34 @mialopolis525 YES OMG PEETA WILL STEAL YOUR HEART FOREVER #
• 14:34 @moonyinspades lolololol yes #
• 15:03 @mialopolis525 Girrrrrrl do it. I finished both books in less than three days hahaha. #
• 15:19 @mialopolis525 They're like $18 each :x I will try to find PDFs! #
• 22:20 WHO IS THIS BITCH FLIRTING IT UP WITH BOOTH UM EXCUUUUUUUUUUUUUSE YOU #
• 22:23 @moonyinspades NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO FLIRT WITH HIM FUCK YOU #
• 22:23 @moonyinspades ALSO WHEN ARE HODGINS AND ANGELA GONNA BOINK JW #
• 22:28 hey do this www.formspring.me/kings #

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