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Tutorial: How to give keyword credit

May 30, 2005 08:13

Ok, so this isn't a tutorial about making icons, but rather what to do with the ones you didn't make. And it may seem like a "duh" to a lot of you; it did to me too. But I've gotten enough questions about it in the past, and have seen enough people who honestly don't seem to know how to do it that I wrote a tutorial. Perhaps it will be helpful ( Read more... )

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perceptible May 30 2005, 12:31:19 UTC

Linking is perfectly fine. :)

shadowgardens May 29 2006, 01:12:36 UTC

Love your icon.

samantha_may May 30 2005, 12:36:46 UTC

I've been wondering how to credit the users and have it appear as an LJ link instead of plain text. Apparently it doesn't work if we write it in the keywords column?

perceptible May 30 2005, 12:43:24 UTC

Yes, it doesn't work in the actual "keywords" space. If you only want to use that and not the "comments", you could just put "made by ____" instead of "made by username". But if you do want the LJ link to work, you can use the "comments" section. It works there. I'm not sure why it works in one but not the other. Wacky LJ. ;)

seelenfenster May 30 2005, 12:52:19 UTC

I'll link to this tutorial in the userinfo of my icon-community (chubby_queen)
Thank you :)

bwinter May 30 2005, 13:21:49 UTC

One item where the icon-maker can help is including their username in the filename from the start - for example all my recent icons have filenames that go fandom-icontext-bwinter.jpg :)

_m3_ May 30 2005, 19:20:08 UTC

Definitely. People who post anything online should add their name and a descriptive bit to all file names. That means Zip files of brushes or image packs and each image inside. I keep running across people who just say "imagepack.zip" and inside is "1.jpg" and "2.jpg" ARgh!

Anyway.

I use the naming inside my file names because when I upload to my fan website, I wanted the artists to all be grouped together instead of scattered by random file name. So in each icon I define what they are and where they're used (LJ Icon - ) then the artist (M3 - ) then describe the icon using character or ship first (Hyde ) then visual clue (blue kiss.jpg). "LJ Icon - M3 - Hyde blue kiss.jpg". Now everyone will always know what it is!

Also, I'm a Virgo. And my dad was somewhat of an accountant. I'm about two gene twists away from having a spreadsheet cataloging my icons... *sigh*

akimoto_studios May 30 2005, 14:20:18 UTC

Thank you! I'm adding it to my memories :].