New Icon!

[capnzebbie]

I've made a new icon. Let me know what you think. Does it look okay? Is the text readable? I may need to change the font. I'm not sure. Any suggestions are welcome! :)

Comments

[dominik.livejournal.com]

I can read it. There are ways to improve readability by putting some lighter colour behind the font or something like that.

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

I barely managed to get it cropped and resized. :D I'm not very good at this. I wanted the text to be white and on Lex's tummy, but I couldn't figure out how to do that. I'll keep trying to learn how to do this stuff, though.

[dominik.livejournal.com]

You'll learn, I'm sure you will. I'm not very good myself, could be much better if I took the time.

His tummy is not big enough for all this text, I think.. hmm.. can I have the original pic? I'd like to try myself!

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

My email is on my user info page. If you'll email me your email or whatever, I can send you the pic. I can't remember where I got it. Maybe on DevotedtoSmallville.com or something.

[dominik.livejournal.com]

I caught the problem... your resolution was 150 dpi or something, you need to make it 72 dpi ALWAYS cause that's the best for text... see, like this

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

Now, see? If you could make my text go away, that would be exactly what I wanted.

I've reloaded the icon with 72 dpi (I think). I'm not sure if it looks any better. It really needs the white text. I don't know why I can't do that, I could in the other program I used for my "sex with Lex" icon.

[dominik.livejournal.com]

I am such a bumbling idiot sometimes. My excuse is that it was already WAY past midnight and I was chatting on the side. dpi is for printers. ppi is the expression: pixels per inch. *headdesk*

Which program are you using at the moment? PSP?

It would be very hard to change the text once it's embedded, the colour must be fixed before that.

(Or you could just put another copy of the picture over this one in another layer and have the text covered by it.)

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

I'm using Pinnacle Picture Studio. The disk came free with something else we bought, so I thought I'd try it.

I used Dell Image Expert for the first icon, and I really liked it, but my free trial of premium features expired and I can't figure out how to renew it. :( When I click on the renew button, it tells me the web site no longer exists.

I'm planning on calling Dell sales to get some help with it, but meanwhile I'm trying different programs to see if I like any of them better. So far, not.

[aurora-bee.livejournal.com]

I think it's really good :)

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[prim-rose-etta.livejournal.com]

Bwah!
love that sling of the hips.....

I had to lean in to the monitor to read it, but oh well, it's fine...

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

*G* Thanks! I'm glad like it.

I'm hoping dk_tigrrr can fix the text for me. I'm still learning.

I love your icon, too. He doesn't really need a bright green tag to make us stare, does he? :)

[prim-rose-etta.livejournal.com]

yum yum yum

[shattered.livejournal.com]

Yummy icon.

Maybe change the color of the text though? It's a little hard to read with the black.

But excellent photo selection. *g*

[capnzebbie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you like the pic. :)

I wanted white text, but I can't figure out how to do that. I'm using a different program from the last icon I did with white text, and it doesn't seem to have that option. dk_tigrrr is going to try to fix it for me.