I hope someone can help me ( Read more... )

All right, so one of my icons is an animated .gif that I made from a flash file. I did not make the original flash file (in fact, I do not know the maker of the original flash file, however, I do have a "original artist unknown" note underneath the icon). However, I did decompile the .swf into frames, and I shrunk these frames/compressed them so ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

I'm starting to think that there needs to be a community for people to post icons that they've made and are unsure about. Like... basically, "Am I out of my damn mind or is this actually decent?", haha. I've made two or three icons like that just in the past couple of weeks and I feel weird about posting them anywhere. :( Useful: Y/N? I'm thinking ( Read more... )

Recently I've had quite a few members of my icon comm ask whether I would be willing to take commissions for icons and banners if they paied me. As I make icons and graphics for fun generally, I was wondering what the going rate was that people charge in money or paied account time for that kind of service?

I know this is a real newbie question, but what is the best file format to save icons as? I've heard that you're supposed to save them as PNGs, but I've seen a lot of JPEG icons. I'm very confused.

Does it make a difference, which file type you should them as, if you put text on an icon?

What makes a trendy icon right now?

You see, I want to get out of my icon making bubble (which consists of making, essentially, bases) so I'm probably making a claim at 10x10variated, since I'm forced to follow rules and do things I'm not used to doing in Photoshop ( Read more... )

I just found this comm so I'd thought I'd ask a question that has been bothering for a while.

Does the display size of a monitor really make that much difference with icons? Does a monitor with a display size of 1024 x 768 (that's the size of my monitor) make an icon look different than a 1280 x 1024 monitor?

I was just wondering if many people used laptops to make icons or graphics in general? I just switched from a regular desktop screen to a laptop and the brightness is rather jarring. If anyone has any pointers on making icons and not making them glaringly bright or really dull on other monitors, it'll be appreciated. =)

But what exactly does "anti alias" and how do you use it?