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If you’re making icons for Livejournal or Dreamwidth you need to crop the image to 100x100 pixels. For other programmes: upload, open file, save, whatever your poison. For Picmonkey: upload your image using ‘Edit Photo’. You do, however, have to be online for the whole time that you’re using it. It’s free, although if you want special features you now have to pay, and it’s an easy, self-explanatory place. I started out using Picnik, and I now use Picmonkey, which evolved from it.

#ICON TUTORIAL LIVEJOURNAL HOW TO#

I have GIMP, which you can download for free, although I’m still learning how to use that. Photoshop is the big one I know of, but it costs and I don’t own it.

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Pictures and photographs that people have copied or scanned though, I believe those belong to the industry and come under my transformative works rule.įind some software to use. When it comes to crediting, personally I have that graphics resource list and I won’t make icons or graphics from other people’s art, or graphics, or manipulated pictures without their permission and without crediting them. It’s up to your own conscience and morality *shrugs*. That said, even though I use other people’s screencaps I don’t use screencaps of a film or show that I haven’t bought or intend to buy, so the industry doesn’t lose out on money from me. When it comes to copyright issues I treat icon making (and graphics making) like fanfiction in that these are transformative works and no profit is being made. You can find (most of) the places I’ve used for images on my graphic resources list.

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If you want images from a film or TV show then you’re looking for ‘screencaps’. Remember to make a note of where they’re from or save a link to them so that you can credit and so you can find the place again if you want to use those images again. Remember to have fun!įind images and save them to your computer. Feel free to ask questions, discuss amongst yourselves, and so on. I know there are other and better guides out there. It’s meant to be a rough starting point for people looking into making graphics or joining graphics making communities. This is just how I make my icons, basically tips I’ve picked up and figured out myself as I’ve gone along. UP NEXT: Icons Tracking System On: U-t-R Icon Maker Appreciation.I keep meaning to do an icon tutorial, because everyone should be able to play with the pretty pictures, and so here it is!ĭisclaimer thingy: I am by no means technically minded and I don’t use any expensive software. Think of all the tutorials you'll have access to! If the tutorial is simply a link to a PSD, the comment will be deleted. If a detailed tutorial includes a PSD as a learning resource, it will be accepted. The idea of this post is to share knowledge rather than direct colourings. + Please give credit where credit is due, and remember to mention the icon maker who posted the tutorial. + Simply reply to this post (as many times as you want) and share the tutorial love!

This is your chance to share your favorites that have been stashed away with the rest of the iconing community! + After a year of wonderful tutorials written for various activities, come together and share the joy reading a good tutorial can provide. + Welcome to Icon Appreciation Month Activity #5 - A Guide to Icon Guides: Tutorials FTW.

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