Well, I swan. [Icons]

[icepixie]

Mostly random assortment of thirteen icons, connected by either swans or Irish poetry. Oh, wait, except for two. Oops.

Er, yes. All photos from the fine folks at stock.xchng, a brush or two from quebelly and saava. All are shareable; all I ask is that you save them to your own hard drive and credit me in your userpics. Feel free to add text or whatever to any of them, especially the two base-like ones.

Samples:


The first batch is inspired by/uses quotes from "The Wild Swans at Coole," by W. B. Yeats. I was gonna do that cool thing josephides did several months ago, with text having links to icons using the text, but the middle stanzas don't really lend themselves to iconage, so that died a quick death. You can read the whole text of the poem here, though.

1. 2. 3. 4.
5. 6. 7.

The other batch quotes various other poems or generally concerns swans, as the case may be.

8. 9. 10. (Tried to fit the whole "peace is dropping slow" line from "The Lake Isle at Innisfree" on here, but it wasn't to be)
111. (From "The Pomegranate," by Eavan Boland) 12. (Robert Frost, "Stopping In The Woods On a Snowy Evening") 13.

Yes, I realize I need to lay off the English major crack.

Edited 'cause it's three in the morning and I forgot my favorite of this batch...

Comments

[curieuse.livejournal.com]

Lovely!! Thanks so much. Do you know of an online tutorial that will explain to me how to fade out the image behind the text so you can read, like you did SO WELL on #11? Beautiful!

[icepixie]

Thanks! :)

All I did for that particular image was add an "outer glow" around the text layer. You do that by typing some text, then going to Layer->Layer Style->Outer Glow. You can change the color, opacity of the glow, size, etc. by fiddling with the sliders. Another thing in that box to play with is the contour--click on the little arrow beside the box made up of a grey and a white triangle to get the pre-set ones to pop up. You can make all kinds of interesting effects with those.

[andreaisangry.livejournal.com]

Beautiful work. I think I like #12 the best. Keep it up!

[icepixie]

Thanks!

[totheliving.livejournal.com]

They're all beautiful. I love number 11. And I'm going to look up that poem now. I really like "Pomegranate" by Louise Gluck, but have never heard of "Pomegranate" by Evan Boland. It would be interesting to compare.

And I love the icon you used for your post! Great composition, and a cat. What more do you need?

[icepixie]

Thanks! If you can't find the poem online, it's in a volume called In a Time of Violence.

[quirky-rocket.livejournal.com]

#7 = a very happy Claire =)

[icepixie]

Glad you like it! :)

[comedownstairs.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are really quite good. Love 8 and 11, but I have to steal 12 because that's like my favorite quote from anything ever.

[icepixie]

That's one of my favorite poems by far. And thanks. :)

[raggedclause.livejournal.com]

Those are really, really lovely. You did a beautiful job on them. I'll probably steal 11... :) Thanks so much for creating and posting these :)

[icepixie]

Thanks! I'm glad you like them. :)

[shoegal83.livejournal.com]

I like them all! Number 12 is the one I stole though!

[icepixie]

Thanks! Glad you like 'em. :)

[browneyedgrl83.livejournal.com]

I will be taking 11 and 12 as well!! And maybe trying a few of my own. My photoshop hasn't been used much lately. THANKS!

[icepixie]

And maybe trying a few of my own. My photoshop hasn't been used much lately.

Be warned: Photoshop is SO FREAKING ADDICTIVE, it's not even funny. ;)

THANKS!

You're welcome!

[evangeline1138.livejournal.com]

Oh, that poem is beautiful, and so are your icons! I'm snagging #3 and crediting you in keywords.

[icepixie]

Thanks! I'm glad you like them. :)