Icons: Christy

[olde_fashioned]

We've been Netflixing the new DVDs of the Christy mini-series that aired back in 1994 on CBS, and while I can remember watching it when I was little, I'm really enjoying seeing them all over again. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Christy, it is based on the novel by Catherine Marshall, and it's one of my favourites. Kellie Martin (who plays Christy) is absolutely perfect, and you couldn't have special-ordered a better person to play her.

This batch is principally from the "title credit" sequence where Christy speaks at the beginning of each episode. I've included the full text at the bottom of this entry.

But enough of this. ;-) Comment, credit, and enjoy!

Teasers:




Please, if you take anything, be so kind as to take note of the numbers of the icon(s) you're saving, since I am always experimenting with my styles and I would like to know what people like best. (This helps me so I can make more!) The numbers are above the icons. ;-)

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Created with angelamaria's Icon Table Generator @ Bauble

"The Great Smokies.
When I left my city home to be a schoolteacher
at a backwoods mission, I dreamed of adventure.
I wasn't ready for the real challenges of life
in these mountains.
I'd have given up, if not for the children.
I came to Cutter Gap to teach
but they show me everyday I'm here to learn."

~ spoken by Christy Huddleston at the beginning of each episode

Comments

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Oh! I loved that series! (and the book even more!)

Let's see. I haven't taken any, because I'm on the wrong computer (when I have the right computer, I plan on raiding many of your icons). But I liked 2 (color and the blur), 3 (though--it looks like there's a megaphone in the background...?), 4 (color--and I think there's a bit of soft glow? it's very cute--I also like the crop), and 9 (color, crop and text).

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Me too, me too! I'm so glad I posted these because I've gotten all these comments from all these people who loved the series and the book. I had no idea it had such a following here on LJ. :-D (SEEEEE Hollywood?? Decent films with morals AND Christian values are actually popular!)

Oh yay, I love it when you do that. *snuggles under blanket* I didn't blur #2 -- I was worried about the fact that I couldn't get it any clearer because the train was moving! And it's not a megaphone in #3, it's the train leaving Christy on the platform. ;-)

EDIT: Oh, and #4 I didn't put a glow on. It's exactly as it was except for coloring.

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Hollywood raises its eyebrow at you critically. Alyssa hits it with a paddle and points out the difference between Golden Compass and Chronicles of Narnia.

^-^ I thought that's what it was in #2, but I thought you did great working around it. #3: Aha! I see it now. :D

Still cute. :D Do you use GIMP?

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!!!

Ooh, Ever After. What did you think of that?

*bows* Thank you. #3 -- lol! I tried to make it more visible but it's sooo tiny. Not much I could do other than put big yellow text and an arrow: TRAIN ;-D

Yup! Almost exclusively now. Is that what you use?

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

I loved Ever After when I was little. I still like it now. I'm not a huge fan of Drew Barrymore, but I thought it was cute, and a good retelling of Cinderella.

Lol. That makes sense.

Yep. *huggles* I would love, love, love to own Photoshop, but I'm not rich.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I just watched it recently, and it wasn't too bad. Mainly I wanted to see Jenny Beavan's costumes, haha. (she did the Kate Winslet S&S, Amazing Grace, "my" Emma in my icon, and Cranford, which I am absolutely DYING to see...)

;-D

PS is waaaaaayy too expensive for me. ;-) But so far, I have been able to deduce that GIMP does almost everything that PS does, except for selective coloring.

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

The costumes are lovely. :D What is Cranford about? *ignorance*

Correct! And you can get a bit of a selective-coloring feel in Curves. Did you know that?

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I have no idea! I'm going to have to put Lorna Doone on hold and read the novel so I can finish it before the movie airs in May.

Yeah, only I don't like Curves as much as I do Color Balance. I did come across a tutorial that has a kind of selective-y coloring feel some of the time, but it's not right for all images. When it works, though, I really like the results. I used it on Margaret here. ;-)

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Tell me if it's good! :D (It might be a Brit. Lit. book I have to read...Mom gasped in delight when she saw it was airing, so I guess it's good.)

Yes, me too. BTW, how do you get GIMP to save in png? I can't get it to work for me. (I'm making another batch of N&S icons, and I like them a lot. The first ones I did I was rushing through in my excitement, so not many came out amazing. This time I'm trying to go slowly and do special, pretty things.)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry! I will! (if I like something the poor souls on my f-list are doomed to be subjected to it, ha ha!)

Really? I have GIMP 2, is that what you have? But when I'm working on an icon, I flatten it (which you have to do unless you're saving it as a .xcf layer file) and then click Save As and where it says Name: just type in whatever, e.g. "northandsouth_margaret_smile.png" but without the quotation marks. Is GIMP not saving them as PNGs or is your hosting site rejecting them?

Now I am very anxiously looking forward to your next batch! :-D

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Haha. Okay.

I haven't tried it in a while, but when I was taking Photography 101 I tested it, I think, because PNGs use less memory than Tiffs, which basically do the same things. Anyway, I probably just need to try again. I hate how jpgs degrade the picture.

^-^ Thankye. It probably won't be out for a while, do to computers and internet and school getting back in the swing next week.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

It came in at the library today. Hopefully we can pick it up on Saturday. *rubs hands together with glee*

I've never used Tiffs. I hate GIF and I prefer not to use JPG because they're too unreliable. I love PNG. (oh -- one thing about GIMP and JPG -- you can tell it to make it a better quality JPG. The default setting is 85%, and when you Save As, you can increase it to 100%)

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

:D Tell me what you think.

I know about the 85-100% thing. But I'll have to try again with pngs. :)

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I will! ;-)

Sorry -- I didn't know.

[midenianscholar.livejournal.com]

Tis fine. :)