Open icon help request!

[conuly]

rainbow_goddess has a number of nice icons, but unfortunately several of them are hard to read. So I thought (with her permission) that I'd beg you all for help.

The really hard ones are this one, this one, and this one, though a number of them could do with a bit of cleaning up in the text/images department. And I have *no* idea how to do this. I wouldn't mind learning, it's theoretically simple enough, right?

Edit: This one's been fixed.

Comments

[conuly]

Even if I did, I'm not sure I'd know how.

[feathered.livejournal.com]

Well, PSP and PS both have free trial versions online. GIMP is free for download. I've never used it, but I've heard that it's comparable to PS and PSP in terms of tools and options. It is very easy to find tutorials for both PSP and PS, less so for GIMP. To crop, you just pretty much click the crop tool on the toolbar and then click and drag on the image 'til you get what you want cropped. If you're not cropping straight to 100by100 you want to crop in a perfect square so that it's even when you resize it. And then you click the text took, click on the image, type what you want, and then you're done!

Of course, that's all very basic. If you actually did have any of the programs, I'm sure ty, xiggy or myself could walk you through it, or you could find an easy tutorial. It is a bit of effort when you can just make other people do it for you, though! I only learned to make icons for myself because I do not have as many technologically savvy friends as you do.

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I got Paint Shop Pro in a copy of Scanners for Dummies. It's useless to me. The help files are jargon. I don't understand them at all. Apparently PSP is a tool for people who do professional photo editing (according to the book) so that's why the help files are gibberish.