Challenge #151
Rules:
- You may submit up to 3 icons by Friday, July 10, 10:00pm CST.
- You may not include any text or animation in your icons. Symbols such as !, @, *, ? and similar are not allowed. Tiny (unreadable) text is fine.
- Textures/brushes etc. are fine.
- Blending is allowed.
- You must post your icons in a comment to this entry.
- You must post the icon itself & the URL to the icon.
Technical Challenge: Irregular Shape Icons (suggested by evester)
Let's break away from the 100x100 pixel square this week and make icons that have an unusual shape -- circles, diamonds, rectangles, hearts... I think small squares count too. I'm not sure if there are any good examples from challenges past (as it's so rare to make a non-100x100 icon!) but feel free to ask questions if you're confused.
EDIT: If you're having difficulty making a transparent icon, it's okay to make the icon white instead of transparent. The voting table will be white so people won't be able to see the difference.
Some guides for making transparent gifs in PSP & PS. For GIMP, if you have a transparent background already (the checkers) all you need to do is save as a .gif or a .png and it will do the transparency for you. Saving as a .gif yields rough edges, though. To start off with a transparent image, go to File -> New. Under Advanced Options set "Fill with:" to "Transparency".
Community Links:
• Challenge #150 voting is here
• The first LIMS challenge (which is closing in a couple of hours) is over here
• suggest a challenge
• current challenges
Notes:
• current entry count: 21
- You may submit up to 3 icons by Friday, July 10, 10:00pm CST.
- You may not include any text or animation in your icons. Symbols such as !, @, *, ? and similar are not allowed. Tiny (unreadable) text is fine.
- Textures/brushes etc. are fine.
- Blending is allowed.
- You must post your icons in a comment to this entry.
- You must post the icon itself & the URL to the icon.
Technical Challenge: Irregular Shape Icons (suggested by evester)
Let's break away from the 100x100 pixel square this week and make icons that have an unusual shape -- circles, diamonds, rectangles, hearts... I think small squares count too. I'm not sure if there are any good examples from challenges past (as it's so rare to make a non-100x100 icon!) but feel free to ask questions if you're confused.
EDIT: If you're having difficulty making a transparent icon, it's okay to make the icon white instead of transparent. The voting table will be white so people won't be able to see the difference.
Some guides for making transparent gifs in PSP & PS. For GIMP, if you have a transparent background already (the checkers) all you need to do is save as a .gif or a .png and it will do the transparency for you. Saving as a .gif yields rough edges, though. To start off with a transparent image, go to File -> New. Under Advanced Options set "Fill with:" to "Transparency".
Community Links:
• Challenge #150 voting is here
• The first LIMS challenge (which is closing in a couple of hours) is over here
• suggest a challenge
• current challenges
Notes:
• current entry count: 21