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[cimorene]

i was bored so i made a webpage with all my icons (a few which now belong to other people and a few which were presents, too). i'm not giving them away, or anything. well, admittedly i have a lot of extras, so i suppose you could try begging me, but that's not why i put this up. i just... uh... felt like it. painful self-indulgence: she-ra, britney and christina, tori amos lyrics, my pets, lord of the rings, domlij, lots of Real Art.

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[strangelette.livejournal.com]

Oooh, very pretty. Cim's meta icon post.

[carraway54.livejournal.com]

just curious--what program or combination of programs did you use to make them? and how does one de-pixelate, shrink the pixels, reduce their number, whatever, in a given chunk of image?

I know virtually nothing about icon-making. other people make them, and I say 'oooh, pretty,' and sometimes 'oh, thank you, pretty,' and look baffled.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

ideally one uses a spiffy photo editing program like photoshop or a spiffy general image program like paintshop pro (which i'm fond of). i, however, don't have it, so i use paint. paint is the free version of paintshop which comes with windows.

one selects a chunk of image and stretches it to a given percentage of its natural size (you can make it smaller or larger), crops it to exactly 100x100 pixels using another function, saves it all as a JPG if it wasn't alread. you can also cut out bits of the image (ie, getting rid of the background), which is probably the most time-consuming and boring.

in paintshop pro, you can lighten and darken the picture as a whole, airbrush it, smudge-blend it, make parts of it (including text) transparent to different degrees, and do lots of other cool stuff. i imagine photoshop has the same capabilities

putrid... ewwwwwness

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

arghhhhhhhh the pain of having to see the Legolas-Gimli one again. just when i'd nearly forgotten about it.

ick ick ick, and i _still_ don't know why he's wearing boxing gloves....

Re: putrid... ewwwwwness

[cimness.livejournal.com]

...boxing gloves???

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[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

yeah doesn't gimli look like he has boxing gloves on.... those red blobs you know?