I'm not sure I understand your roughly-drawn guide! But it looks like you add text before cropping/resizing the picture?
When I make icons, I open a new... idk the word, canvas? Haha. Anyway, I create a blank 100x100 pixel canvas and then import the picture I'm iconning into it, where I can move it around and resize without worrying about losing the 100x100 dimensions. If I'm adding text I do so after editing the picture, so that I know what kind of space and cropping I'm working with:
no...I shrink it first - but I wanted the pic to be big enough to be easily visible - good catch. *goes to edit it*
ps: I line it up by making the text window higher than long, and narrow enough that whether I hit Enter or not after each letter, the next one will be below it.
Ah, okay. I thought that might be the case but I wasn't sure. :-)
And man, that text thing makes so much sense, but IDK if I can do it that way in the no-frills free application I have. I'll poke around some more. Or... I might have Photoshop proper on a different computer.
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When I make icons, I open a new... idk the word, canvas? Haha. Anyway, I create a blank 100x100 pixel canvas and then import the picture I'm iconning into it, where I can move it around and resize without worrying about losing the 100x100 dimensions. If I'm adding text I do so after editing the picture, so that I know what kind of space and cropping I'm working with:
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*goes to edit it*
ps: I line it up by making the text window higher than long, and narrow enough that whether I hit Enter or not after each letter, the next one will be below it.
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And man, that text thing makes so much sense, but IDK if I can do it that way in the no-frills free application I have. I'll poke around some more. Or... I might have Photoshop proper on a different computer.
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re-edited it again, just now, actually, to explain each picture-step.
thank you.
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