It spawned from iconing at 5am in the morning. I was self-inflicting neck cramps on myself because I'm masochistic like that tilting my head at this one icon for the longest time trying to decide if it looked better with or without the border. XD
Honestly? I personally believe it's relative, and depends on the image in question. If you feel it looks best w/out the border, then don't add one. If anyone bitches, just wave the reliable old Artistic Liscence at them. ^^
What sexyferret said. I remember several months ago being annoyed with trying to figure out the right border to put on an icon, because in all honesty, I liked the image better sans border. And I started bitching to a friend of mine about it, and he was like "Um, so why don't you just not put a border on it?"
And I was like "...surely, you jest."
But then I didn't use a border, you know, just to see and the sky totally didn't fall in or anything. So yes, go with what works for you!
Oh, I know what you mean. I've been there many times before. D:
I think I'm really stuck in the whole No Border Equals Noob Icon if only because back in ye old days before all the brushes and textures and blinkies and animations and copying and pasting the same image 9357948 times into the same icon, you know, where icons used to be just a base image. And the only hip trendy thing was WHOMG A BORDER! THIS WASN'T AN ICON MADE BY SOME MORON WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO USE THE LINE TOOL IN PAINT/PS/PSP/ETC!
Sometimes it doesn't look so much 'clean' as it just looks unfinished depending on the image, I was just wondering how other people felt about it. I mean, it always struck me as weird to see an image with no text, no border, nothing - just resized to 100x100 and the icon maker going WHOMG CREDIT ME OR ELSE! As if no one else can resize images.
Otherwise, you seem to be right it does really depend on the individual icon.
heh, I agree.. go by the icon itself. I tend to like borders, but often I'll only add a border to one side, or something equally strange :p Be creative and free~ if anyone whines, it's their problem.
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And I was like "...surely, you jest."
But then I didn't use a border, you know, just to see and the sky totally didn't fall in or anything. So yes, go with what works for you!
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I think I'm really stuck in the whole No Border Equals Noob Icon if only because back in ye old days before all the brushes and textures and blinkies and animations and copying and pasting the same image 9357948 times into the same icon, you know, where icons used to be just a base image. And the only hip trendy thing was WHOMG A BORDER! THIS WASN'T AN ICON MADE BY SOME MORON WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO USE THE LINE TOOL IN PAINT/PS/PSP/ETC!
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Otherwise, you seem to be right it does really depend on the individual icon.
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