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Icon Making: A General Guide

Dec 17, 2010 02:27

Program: Photoshop CS, but mostly translateable to all
Difficulty: Beginner, but basically as hard as you want
Translatable: Yes
PSD Included: No

The basics of: Cropping; Preparing; Colouring; Textures; Font

Using this as a visual example:

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Comments 10

etoilepb December 16 2010, 15:45:06 UTC

AUGH GOD WEEPING ANGELS

*runs away*

(backwards)

sidhex3 December 16 2010, 16:32:53 UTC

is it bad that i'm looking forward to christmas for the new DW episode?

etoilepb December 16 2010, 16:51:00 UTC

My parents get BBCA, Husband and Good Friend and I have made a 9 p.m. Christmas date at my parents' house for this express reason.

(My parents live 450 miles away from where Husband and I live, I think they are slightly bemused that at the end of Christmas Day I'm inviting a Jewish friend over to watch TV, but they like my friends so they're happy, haha.)

sidhex3 December 16 2010, 16:55:22 UTC

LOL!

we'll be a my mom's and woohoo...she's got directv, so i should be able to watch it (eldest child is the only other DW fan in my house). but just in case, i'm dvr'ing it here at home. :)

strikske December 16 2010, 17:44:24 UTC

I like the way you write the tutorial. My only question is could you make the pictures bigger. I can't see the effects on them even when I open them on Photobucket.

And yes I would like to see more tutorials from you. The descriptions are easy to follow.

syrensymphony December 18 2010, 01:39:36 UTC

Sorry, Photobucket resized the images. I re-ulpoaded them with imageshack, they're now full-sized. Thanks for letting me know.

Thank you, I'm glad it was understandable =)

proggrrl December 16 2010, 19:20:34 UTC

::applause::

Wonderful... now if someone could make a tut like this for "Starting with an AVI vid file of an entire show and ending up with an awesome animated GIF 100x100 icon" I'd be in heaven!

:)

syrensymphony December 18 2010, 01:41:38 UTC

Haha, thanks.

Depends what you classify 'an awesome GIF.' I know how to make them, but not anything particularly fancy. What program do you use?

proggrrl December 23 2010, 16:18:13 UTC

What program do you use?First of all -- I'm on a Mac, so a lot of the advice that comes around on this comm about freeware isn't an option for me ( ... )

dinophwoar January 13 2012, 23:22:23 UTC

This was really helpful thank you!

I used to make all my own graphics many years ago but had completely forgotten how to load up photoshop, let alone make anything these days! I managed to make 5 userpics this evening with the help of this guide :)