I feel like my icons are looking MUCH better than they were. And I'm remembering where things are and what they do, so that makes things go a lot faster. My program updated today too, it now has a welcome screen with tutorials! I was surprised since it's PaintShop 7 and they're on like 9 or 10 now, but hey, I'll take it ( Read more... )

After some advice from tinnny, I redid two of the Tumblr sets to try and make them lighter. The first image in both sets looks better than the last two. :/ I didn't realize at first that some of the settings didn't auto save. :( In the future I can save them and reuse them for similar images. It's just hard to remember because MOST of the tools default ( Read more... )

Testing to see if PNG or JPEG works better for my icons. Not sure if it will matter, but these were saved as JPEG first and then I changed them to PNG. When I have more time I'll try to save some as PNG first.

Left side is JPEG, right is PNG


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So I've been watching Emerald City on NBC and the colors and scenery are amazing along with the characters and story. I hate waiting for Friday to watch a new ep ( Read more... )

I downloaded a bunch of images from the British Library yesterday (they have lots of new free images from books that are out of copyright) and spent today playing around with them a bit.

I have no idea what to do with this, but the titles of these booklets needed to be put together. Trashy romance novels of 1892!


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Still can't figure out why GIMP ruins my images when making GIfs. I tried to download a plug-in, but it didn't show up in my software. I don't know what to do and the GIMP comm on here looks dead. :(

On the plus side, when making icons, they're tiny, so you can't really see how messed up the image is.


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Trying to play around with my program some more and learn how to better do some things.

( Killjoys icon set )

While it isn't nearly as pretty as the ones I see all over Tumblr, I made an icon (banner?) set! I have another one in mind to do, but it will have to wait. My back, tailbone are really sore from sitting hunched over my laptop. :(

I did the first one yesterday and the other two today.


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It's super late and I should be sleeping, but I've been sleeping like crap any way and have yet to be asleep before 2am the last like 2 weeks, so oh well ( Read more... )

Decided I would play around with icons some more. Chose to do some X-Files in early celebration of the show coming back (even if it is only for a short time).

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