LIMS Round 3:The Ultimate Test of Creativity-LIMS Winner Up!

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  1. quoth_the_raven

    quoth_the_raven Corpse

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    Voting time!

    Challenge #6- Emily Procter- VOTING

    ~ fo_poozle and Cass are using their free pass for this round and MissRoosFox has unfortunately failed to send an entry and will be automatically eliminated. Hope you had fun, Roosy :)

    - Vote for top 3 of least quality. Include a valid reason for each vote, otherwise it won't be counted.
    - ANY member of this board may vote.
    - The makers of the icons with the top 2 number of votes will be eliminated.

    Examples of good reasons:
    50: The text is oddly placed
    68: The colouring is overpowering
    72: The icon is oversharpened
    56: The icon is too blurry

    Examples of bad reasons:
    50: I hate the colour pink. (Personal Preference)
    78: The tiny text/decorative brush is unreadable. (Because they’re supposed to be that way.)

    Please note that the following icons were made without the use of text/fonts, decorative or otherwise.

    Voila! :D

    01.[​IMG] 02.[​IMG] 03.[​IMG] 04.[​IMG] 05.[​IMG] 06.[​IMG] 07.[​IMG]

    Important!- PM me immediately if you don't see your icon.
     
  2. loki

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    04. The coloring is... strange
    05. It's too contrasting
    01. It's too plain?

    This was SOOOO hard, lol, nice work!
     
  3. gsrLOVE

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    Wow this one is hard, guys' :) I think this was one of those competitions with pictures that "Less is More" stands out.. Lovely icons to everyone- you've all done great ones :D

    03- I get what you're trying do, since the picture fits what I'm sure you have in your mind. However, you cut off half her chin. Perhaps next time- making the picture a bit smaller (resizing more) will work. I like the brush you used, but maybe it should have been in a different colour, since there isn't much white in the picture anyhow- and you can't really see it.

    07- I like the crop, I like your icon, but I think you could've made it work with what you had. The three coloured boxes look funny, and out of place. The one thing in icons that make it seem odd is when you don't use colours that just don't match. I mean, I don't see any red except in that box.. Maybe using a green would have worked, but still i'm just not catching the drift of those boxes.

    05- I loved this icon, but I think you overdid it when you added the second Emily above the bottom. Again, the colouring just doesn't match the icon. She's wearing white, she has brownish/red neckless/scarf thing- and you've got a second pink one of her. I think it would've been great alone, with the bottom picture. I like the brush, and the border though :)
     
  4. Elsie

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    Wow, so tough everyone! Great icons :)

    03. Unfortunate cropping which doesn't make the most of the image
    05. Very busy icon with nothing to centrally draw the eye to, and the light texture is overpowering
    01. Lovely idea and great idea but it lacks definition and looks a little 'washed out'
     
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    Lovely icons everyone! Have I mentioned that Emily is gorgeous? :lol:

    05. The top image doesn't quite seem to fit in with the rest of the icon. Also, there seems to be a lightflare or something along those lines that is somewhat overpowering.

    01. The colours somehow seem to be washed out. Perhaps a different colour background would help as well.

    04. This is going to sound odd, but Emily seems either blurry or oversharpened, and I can't quite tell which. The colours also seem to be muted.
     
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    Good job everyone! I've been so busy lately and when I almost was asleep last Saturday I remembered I needed to make an icon :lol:. Ah well, I sure did have fun and thanks Ann for running the challenge.

    03 - the cropping is a bit odd.
    05 - the mirror effect is a bit overpowering, though it's a very good idea.
    04 - the icon is too red.
     
  7. Chez

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    #3 - odd cropping
    #4 - looks washed out
    #5 - the image on the top is blurry
     
  8. Cass

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    03: The crop is a little odd.
    05: The effect is overpowering.
    01: The image seems a little washed out.

    Great icons everyone!
     
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    This was very difficult to choose from because they are all fantastic!

    03 - Odd crop
    05 - The upper Emily is a little blurry and the colouring is a tad overpowering with regards to the rest of the icon.
    02 - a little dark/ too much contrast

    Sorry guys! :(
     
  10. Lauw

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    3 - Odd crop
    4 - The coloring is strange, it makes her eyes look weird
    2 - Too much contrast
     
  11. Adzix

    Adzix CSI Level Three

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    5 - too plain
    3 - she's paintbrushed too much
    4 - strange coloring

    but awesome work everybody, the competition is getting tougher and tougher.

    and yeah Elsie, i managed, lol. it took me FOREVER though ;)

    i've got a question quoth. i'm actually curious how do you count votes. do you give a point for every vote no matter if it was mentioned first, second or third or do you do it in the way icon challenges are done (3 points for the first, 2 for the second and one for third)? i'm just wondering :p
     
  12. quoth_the_raven

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    Adz, I go by the method Vera taught me :) I give one vote for each icon regardless of first/second/third placement first, then if two or more icons tie for a certain place I take into account first/second/third, and then for first it gets 3, second 2, third 1, etc :)
     
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    03 - Odd crop
    05 - To much contrast and it looks a bit grainy
    01 - It looks washed out
     
  14. Adzix

    Adzix CSI Level Three

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    thanks Ann. that's kinda what i thought :)

    ok, i'm out to study for my finals. see ya guys.
     
  15. Daquien

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    wow,I think that's a weird way of counting the votes and not very fair imho because it doesn't matter if you vote an icon as the 1º or the 3º.
    I'd rather prefer the 3 points for the 1º 2 for the 2º and 1 for the 3º. :)
     

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