filtering color for grays

Hiya all. :) Sorry for the non-icons spammish post. I'm just opening up a suggestion box for what you'd like to see here in the future- whether it be tutorials, icon subjects, styles, etc. Anything goes- you can suggest movies, celebs, animanga series, musicians, etc. Or you can also suggest a certain style of iconing that you'd like me to do or continue doing. Or if you want me to do a tutorial, just comment on what kind of tutorial you want to see. The more specific you are, the more it'll help.

I also get a bit stumped for subject inspirations sometimes so I'm hoping this will benefit both you and me. ^^ Please note that it's not anywhere a guarantee that I'd make them, but it's all open suggestions and if something's particularly popular among you all- chances are I'll be making a batch sooner or later. :D

Btw, this is not an icon request area. Every so often, I'll do an icon meme soon where I do a special request thing for all you lovely people who have friended this journal, so keep your eyes open for that. ♥ In the meantime, suggest away!

Help Me? [backdated entry, actual post date 08/21/2005]

ETA #2 (09/21/2005): Before you condemn me for taking donations, please refer to this post where I explain in detail in response to a hostile accusation I received. I can only hope that you will understand. Thank you.

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First of all, using graphics I've been offering here are free of charge. I don't intend on charging people for the stuff I offer on my journal, so no worries! Truthfully, I feel weird even doing this paypal donation thing- so why am I even asking? Alas, I really could use some help. As it stands, I currently pay over $220-270/yr for my domain & server's hosting fees (like space & bandwidth, in which this journal eats a large amount of bandwidth from). I won't get into the specifics of explaining how broke I really am...but you will seriously be helping me much more than you realize if you donate.

All funds will go towards paying for those fees, efforts in producing more graphics, my attempt to replace my broken scanner so that I can offer you even more stuff with my old-fashioned hand-created art, and my goal to turn this journal into a much wanted paid account. (Huge thanks to kiniro_ryu, kellzilla, sue_k, and julie_reads- who purchased LJ paid months for me! *snuggles*)

I would truly be forever grateful for any kind of help that you can give me. Thank you so much!

Note: There have been several questions about this so I just want to mention that you do NOT need a paypal account to make a donation. While it's processed through paypal, I've enabled the option to use a credit card for those who don't have a paypal account.


EDIT 8/22/2005: To show my appreciation for those who have donated, I've decided to occasionally offer some special resources (like large textures, texture bases, extra icon textures, or special requests, etc.) that will only be available to those who have helped me. If you've donated in some form or another, please either email (colorfilter.designs [at] gmail.com) me your LJ username (and the email address used when paying through paypal) or comment here so that I can keep proper track of you. I will then add you to my friends list for me to give you guys some extra stuff. :) Thank you once again!

And this is something I must add- please only donate if you truly would like to support my work. Please don't do it just because you wanted extra downloads from me. Those downloads aren't made in order to "entice" people into "paying"- they're the stuff I do as a thank you for those who have been so willing to help me out. Please understand that.

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To the donated: To date (Jan 2006), I have roughly 20+ large textures (mostly 800x600), 110+ various icon sized textures, and 40 icon full texture bases sorted via friends filter. You will always be able to locate all my extra graphics posts at the list here or by using the tag exclusive. And finally, if you would fill out this poll to let me know what you're most interested in for the extras, then I will definitely try my best to accomodate! :)


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