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# Very creepy and woo.
Minor TJ: I want to start drawing icons, but I have no idea of what I'd need. Advice?
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 1:54, archived)
# coloured pencils and graph paper.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 1:55, archived)
# Helpful, yet not as such.
And you wonder why I don't frequent here? :P

Seriously, got any ideas?
(Also applies to everone else)
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 1:57, archived)
# NO BUT SRSLY FLKS
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 1:57, archived)
# Paint.
If you're gonna be working with small dimensions Paint'd probably be the easiest.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 1:57, archived)
# By that I mean, doing it pixel by pixel.
Then safe as BMP, and export into whatever other program you have (PS/PSP/GIMP) and remove the background + save as transparent gif.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 1:58, archived)
# yeah but it only goes up to 800%.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 1:58, archived)
# I don't find that as much of a problem. You can always work in the 4x4 pixel brush and then reduce it by 25%.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 1:59, archived)
# wouldn't it antialiase?
 
on this machine I mostly use Paint and Image Composer, both of which suck balls in their own special ways.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 2:03, archived)
# Not if you reduce it in Paint... surely?
Also: your Paint stuff rules.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 2:04, archived)
# Pixen if you're on a mac is the tits.
Lets you do easy anims too.
(, Thu 6 Mar 2008, 1:59, archived)