Picspam: Illya Caption Contest

[curuchamion]

Sorry I missed posting yesterday - I had an insanely busy day, no LOLs ready to go, and I'd hoped to finish writing the missing scene for the Winner By a Nose Affair. Which I didn't.

To make up for it, here's a double treat: a picspam of Illyacaps I saved just because they were pretty (piccies ganked from Framecaplib and Evasion Pattern Eight), plus a caption contest. I've put down my best effort at a caption for each shot - mostly pretty lame; now it's y'all's turn!


"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." (I told you it was lame... I can't think properly while looking at this shot. Can you?)




"Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!" (Hamlet, Act I, Scene 4. Also Bones in Star Trek IV, which is how I know where it's from - Spock provided the citation.)


Hangin rown - ur doin it wet (I would have LOLed this one already, but I just can't crop in close enough without having the caption distract from the picture! ::gurgles::)


(Darnit, who does he look like in this one?! Somebody besides Illya, that's for sure.)


(I went a bit Project Strigas Affair crazy recently... I was actually looking for a LOL base, caption: "Adorkable - ur doin it rite", but I didn't quite find one. Suggestions? I did, however, find an embarras de richesse of "creepy!mysterious and all the cooler for it - ur so doin it rite" shots, and I'm afraid I saved them all. *sheepish grin*)


(This is from the bit where he asks if they should get rid of Colonel Klink the warmongering foreign-power guy permanently. I just can't get over how adorably hopeful he looks. And shiny. Also, hands!)

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

#1 "It was the new toilet paper that clued Illya in to the parlous state of UNCLE's finances."

[illyushadarling.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's brilliant! :-)

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *g*

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

#1 "My fortune cookie says 'Help! I'm being held captive in a cookie factory!' again. I though we already rescued that guy..."

#2 "Yes, I'm listening, Mr. Waverly. No, I'm not rolling my eyes at you. I swear."

#3 "They're letting the fangirls write the scripts again, I see..."

#4 "Who stole my cabbie-hat? I can't drive without my cabbie-hat!!"

#5 "The guestroom looks kind of small, don't you think?"

#6 "Ooo! Can I order a pair of the x-ray glasses from the back of your magazine, Mr. Waverly? I promise to share with Napoleon..."

[lolmac]

#1 - It says, "Help, I'm being held prisoner in a notepaper factory."

#2 - "Yes, I hear the little voices. Don't you?"

#3 - No caption, but advice: crop in tighter by eliminating the Illya-less space to his left and below him. Use the Illya-less space to the right for the caption. Break up the caption into sub-lines as needed. If necessary, leave an open strip at the bottom tall enough for the last line of the caption (ur doin it wrong).

The real purpose of cropping is to allow the figure to take up as much of the final picture as possible.

Captions *never* actually distract from hawt pictures, as long as you keep the caption from actually eclipsing the hawt person. You can't defeat Illya with a mere caption. *g* Odds are you'll end up with part of the text in close proximity to the, um, rear end, which is a fine happenstance as it will lead the eye back to the end.

#3, 4, & 5 -- howling too much at Lothi's captions to even think of any myself.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

crop in tighter by eliminating the Illya-less space to his left and below him. Use the Illya-less space to the right for the caption.

I'll give that a shot. I was trying to put the caption to his left - old habits, I don't like to have people facing out of frame - and the bridge struts were interfering terribly with the lettering. I think this will work a lot better.

Thanks!

[lolmac]

Well, his head might be facing out of frame, but his bum wouldn't . . .

What program are you using for image manipulation?

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

MS Picture It 7. It's a pretty basic photo-editing program, but it does what I'm generally trying to do - cropping and captioning. (And if I want, I can also insert a blue penguin, if the light levels match.)

What program do you use?

[lolmac]

A blue penguin? That sounds perhaps a trifle limited in scope, but you never know.

I actually have the full-featured Photoshop -- a now rather old version (6), but still absurdly overpowered for basic screwing around. It's a bit like owning a high-performance racecar and just driving it to the store. It does have some good tools for dealing with lousy lighting levels, though, which really helps with the screen caps. I can also break out different parts of an image, rework the framing, and recombine them, as long as I don't get too ambitious.

Amazingly enough, RDA turns out to have such regular features that you can flip his face 180 degrees and he doesn't look strange. It should not be possible to get away with that!

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Amazingly enough, RDA turns out to have such regular features that you can flip his face 180 degrees and he doesn't look strange. It should not be possible to get away with that!

There is only one possible answer to that statement. *points to icon* ;-)