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Topic: Icon Request, I beg of you!

Mangler_SC Title: Bellybutton Lint Collector Posts: 62,003 Registered: Dec 2, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 61,052 User ID: 863,702	Subject: Icon Request, I beg of you!
	-----signature----- . Mangler had an accident on the way home from the liquor store. He was run off the road and crashed into a woman's clinic. It was one giant Pabst smear. -Bou_Te . Soylent CLiKK -- It's PEEEEEOPLEEE
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Lynea Title: Dances with Trolls Posts: 82,344 Registered: Jul 26, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 80,243 User ID: 280,742	Subject: Icon Request, I beg of you!
	I'm a complete n00b at this, but thought I'd give it a go. Icon Tester -----signature----- http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ "It's crazy that the board newbies think I am a Liberal and B_T is a neo-con." - Gustaive_MT "God left a very clear instruction to Adam. The ****head couldn't even follow that." - -Abednego-
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Webscar Title: /Yiffs in Hell [face_furry] Posts: 68,467 Registered: Nov 30, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 67,847 User ID: 743,384	Subject: Icon Request, I beg of you!
	Lynea, a few quick notes When you cut out the ribbon you should turn off all the layers except whats going to end up in the icon at the end (this includes the background layer) then go to Image > Trim > Trim Transparent Pixels. This will do two things, first it will trim the transparent pixels so you are using the maximum of your canvas (the icon is a little tiny as is, it should fill the entire canvas); the second thing it does is alert you to any stray pixels that might be out there (If you have stray pixels then you will have an apparently transparent gap instead of the canvas being right up against your icon) After you trim the transparent pixels you can then increase the canvas size so it is a square. Then resize the image. This will insure you are using the maximum canvas size, and by doing this you will get the highest quality image. There is one additional step though in some cases. If you have a Circle and the edges of the circle touch the edge of your canvas then you have an problem. When circles scale down they grow a few pixels to keep the illusion of a curve... so if your canvas ends right at the edge of the circle (while it's big) then your circle will look cut-off when it's resized. What you want to do is add to the canvas size (Image > Canvas Size) so that when it is resized you will have approximately 2 extra pixels outside of the circle. For instance, if you are going from 800 to 80 you would want to add 20 pixels to the canvas size. So it'd be 820 to 80 (800/80= 10x2 = 20+800= 820) The other thing is you want to insure you have a transparent background, currently it looks like you forgot to turn off that layer before saving EDIT: Oh and if you like comments and such on your icons I'd suggest you open an account over on http://mmii.info it is what a lot of people over on IGN use to store their icons. It has a lot of nifty features (like if I click an icon image it will give me the markup code to past into a thread) and allows people to give comments on icons. You will have to keep in mind that it automatically changes the file name (Unless you click Upload without auto naming) and the category names are different between VN and IGN, so keep that in mind when uploading there -----signature----- Vagina Purse: 'A daily blog about what I find inside me' ~Ticky
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Lynea Title: Dances with Trolls Posts: 82,344 Registered: Jul 26, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 80,243 User ID: 280,742	Subject: Icon Request, I beg of you!
	I read all that and my eyes glazed over, Webs! LOL Thanks for the input. I truly have no idea what I'm doing. I was just bored at work. -----signature----- http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ "It's crazy that the board newbies think I am a Liberal and B_T is a neo-con." - Gustaive_MT "God left a very clear instruction to Adam. The ****head couldn't even follow that." - -Abednego-
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Tuneses Title: Cpt.: Team Degenerate Posts: 10,655 Registered: May 27, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 10,532 User ID: 683,011	Subject: Icon Request, I beg of you!
	Name: Pabst Cat: Other -----signature----- I make people, what's your superpower?
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