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[Kappa]

Probably not very much. It's not so much Photoshop in particular (free image editing programs totally exist) as, like, my 30-inch monitor and my Wacom Bamboo.

[Tamien]

Aha (my next suggestion would have indeed been free software). Unfortunately I cannot as easily supply a 30" monitor or tablet.

Does this mean we should look for potential Jokers who come pre-icon'd? (And does "here I just made you this pile of icons" count?)

[Anya]

I wish I could make icons. Is it difficult?

I'd probably try my hand at iconing Elliot Knights face in Sinbad, coz there needs to be moar icons of that faaace.

[anthusiasm]

Same. Elliot Knight and Karen David.

(This is in a hypothetical world where I actually have time to do this).

[Marri]

I believe that given high quality screen caps, it's simply a matter of cropping an acceptable 100x100 range. In the absence of high quality screen caps you have to find or make them, which is probably more work and I haven't a clue how to do other than "find a movie and screenshot it I guess maybe?" xD

[Alicorn]

I find icon-making pretty easy. It takes only a few seconds to do one. I open up large batches of source images in Preview and then I hold shift and drag squares around whatever I want to be in the icon, then I crop. When I have done this to all of them, I select all and batch resize, done unless something needs color correction. Kappa prefers more sophisticated iconing processes but will use my icons sometimes. Sadly I find it pretty tedious and mostly only do it when I need it for my own accounts (in which case I can hold it down to fifteen per, tops) or when I really want something to happen for which kappa having icons is the only prerequisite remaining.

[Kappa]

"Here I just made you this pile of icons" totally counts.

Making icons is variably difficult, depending on like, how much you care about picture quality. I care about picture quality. And I'm inclined to fuss hugely about my icon selection, so I need a base pool of like ~50 icons minimum to get a set of 15 I'm happy with. But demonstrably, handing me a bunch of icons with their original source images suffices to get me poking through the selection and making endless new versions of the icons I want until I have a set I like. And Alicorn just offered to let me borrow her Wacom.

[Tamien]

This is good to know because cropping a whole bunch of images down to iconish squares seems like exactly the sort of task I could happily spend a few hours doing.

:D for Alicorn lending her Wacom! Does tablet + supply of source images = sufficient for you to start iconing? Or should I continue to be motivated to crop things down to iconish squares (in the hopes that a sufficient base pool will suffice to get you started)?

[Anya]

Innnteresting. Thank you for the information!

Usually I'm pretty good at finding already made icons for my purposes, but Ellllliot Knnight.

And also Jessica Parker Kennedy.

I only have pretty low quality episodes of Sinbad (such a bad, but pretty show), hopefully I can find a better format. But for JPK, I have mkv versions of Black Sails. I'll start with them.

[Bluelantern]

I'd probably try my hand at iconing Elliot Knights face in Sinbad, coz there needs to be moar icons of that faaace.

YES! We need more of him, and Kim Bum. Where you guys find those faces?