New userpic!

[nancylebov]

Image thanks to e_apraksina, a Russian-language images lj-- mostly excellent animal and landscape pictures, but it also has video of accidents and occasional fits of being NSFW.

Addendum:I'm not sure how much I'll use this one. I love the warm yellow, but for some reason the ladybug looks nice and red in the original but muddy in the userpic.

Addendum the second: I wanted to try out the ladybug as a new default, but I also want to keep the solar necklaces on my old posts. Is there any way to do this?

Comments

[avram]

How's this?

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

May I use this with credit to you and e_apraksina? Ladybugs are my totem insect.

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

My only guess about the older messages is that you'd have to change the userpic manually for each of them.

[catbirdgirl.livejournal.com]

this is lovely and warm

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

All I did was find it, though egoboo is always appreciated. My impression is that e_apraksina is also a finder rather than a photographer.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Much better, thank you. How did you do it?

[avram]

Short answer: Photoshop.

Long answer: Copy old icon into Photoshop. Use Select → Color Range, select Red from drop-down. With region still selected, use Layer → New Adjustment Layer → Hue/Saturation to create a new adjustment layer with a mask corresponding to the selected region (which is based on how red the pixels are). Push the Saturation slider to the right until the image looks good.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I don't have photoshop, but I think gimp has the same sort of thing.

[boxofdelights]

Happy!

[cellio]

That's stunning.