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	iris 2004-02-01 08:17 am UTC (link)
	Trailblazers of iconing?! blink I had no clue some people take this shit so seriously. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	snacky 2004-02-01 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	That line had me giggling madly. ICONS = BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS! Blood, sweat and tears, people! Don't you ever forget it! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	tigerlily 2004-02-01 08:21 am UTC (link)
	Is it wrong that I want to get a picture of say, Harmony and request they make an icon with a phrase pokeing at their elitist asshat bitching? There are finite pics, fonts, styles, techniques get over it. I love "you need to grow too" like icons are high art. Oh sure some are purdy but bitch please! Thanks for posting that! I needed a good grrr. (Reply to this)

	dawnswalker 2004-02-01 08:38 am UTC (link)
	"WAAA WAAA ICONING IS A LOST ART But make me some icons plz k thx." (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Icon! mooncalf 2004-02-01 11:18 am UTC (link)
	OMG Rhapsody icon OMG. ... sorry. It's just that I thought I was the only person in North America who'd ever played Rhapsody! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	meril 2004-02-01 09:09 am UTC (link)
	I'm still iconing like it's 2001 here. :) But, dude, on those icon requests? If the requester is supplying the cap and the quote, why the limitation on the series that the iconist will make icons for? It's not like there's going to be much thinking involved on the icon making... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	seventy_three 2004-02-01 09:19 am UTC (link)
	Ya know, I can crop and slap some text on a picture using the software that came with my cheapo printer, and lord knows I'm no arteest. If the requester is supplying the cap and the quote, why don't they make their own silly icons? Just wondering. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	allen 2004-02-01 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	Not to mention that, after you spend all the time posting the screencap, getting a source for the quote, and all that, you don't even get the icon to yourself -- anyone can have it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	slippery_fish 2004-02-01 08:15 pm UTC (link)
	Well, if you go crazy with effects it can still take some time. It depends on how much time and effort she wants to spend on these requests. If it's only cropping and putting the text on it, it's only a matter of minutes, but otherwise... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	skarrow 2004-02-01 09:44 am UTC (link)
	"And I really don't copy anyone's style, with the exception of using the colored bars beneath text sometimes since it helps when the text wouldn't stand out against the picture." That's copying style? Funny, here I thought it was common sense. Shows what I know, don't it? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	nostalgia 2004-02-01 02:09 pm UTC (link)
	I personally have brutally ripped-off the technique of using pictures of things and then writing words on them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	musette 2004-02-01 09:46 am UTC (link)
	And the most wonderful irony of all of it? Her icons look amazingly similar to selluinlaer's on LJ. Of course, selluinlaer's are better because they have sailorboys on them. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	evilgmbethy 2004-02-01 10:12 am UTC (link)
	Haha. In my day, you had to walk five miles in the snow to get to your graphics program, and then enter binary code to make the icon. And it was art! (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	rachelmap 2004-02-01 10:51 am UTC (link)
	To see how seriously I take icons, look at mine. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	nostalgia 2004-02-01 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	I think you'll find that you have ripped-off that icon from the magnificent hoshitucker. http://userpic.livejournal.com/3422410/829806 - see?! How dare you sully her genius with your lame copyage?! (Reply to this)

	BEHOLD, MORTALS! htrismegistus 2004-02-01 02:43 pm UTC (link)
	Please see above an example of my distinctive and trailblazing icon-making technique, featuring a blank white field and one colored pixel at 79,83. If I see ANY of you using similar icons on lj or jf, know that you are totally the suxx0r5s for copying my mad l33t icon making skillz. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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delfeus
2004-02-01 04:59 pm UTC (link)

Gaah. Icons are fun and all, but it's not like they're an art form... Now, I understand if someone gets pissed when someone else steals an icon they spent a long time working with, but I just don't get the whining about styles. I really doubt the whiner has come up with all her ideas by herself, without getting any inspiration from others. Then again, maybe it's okay for her to use others' ideas, although it's not okay for others to do so...

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	I don't really have any comment, I just wanted to pimp my icon 'cause it's TEH A4T!11! (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	bunny 2004-02-01 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	I am going to request a "What the shit is this?" icon. (Reply to this)(Thread)

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	a plea... birdoffire 2004-02-01 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh great and wise 'trailblazers' of icon making, as I am knew to this 'art form' I beg you to teach me all of your knowledge so that I may 'grow' in form and style!" Icon making an 'art form'? Sculpture is an art form. Painting, also an art form. Heck even sarcasm can be considered and art form. But icon making? (Reply to this)

	iamtheenemy 2004-02-01 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	I think the best part of this is that no one has responded with any sort of request for an icon. It makes me giggle. Steph (Reply to this)

hoorofcrowley
2004-02-01 11:52 pm UTC (link)

Ooh, please allow me to insert my own whining here. Fab.

Stop using the Scriptina font, people! Agggh! I was using it before it was even popular and now it's so 2003! Whine, whine, whine, get-another-font-cakes.

*phew*

So hard being a trendsetter. Heh.

Anyhow, I love making icons and I enjoy testing out new PS ideas on them all the time. I even respect saava, dtissagirl, and quebelly because their tips and tutorials have helped me. But I also don't spend an hour or more making an icon by following steps that will make my icon look like all the others. I just want pretty icons! Is that so wrong? *weeps*

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	ignorant_bliss 2004-02-02 12:31 am UTC (link)
	Personally I never understood all the fuss about icons anyway. Crop. Text. Maybe a few effects. It's not like it's brain surgery...now there's an art form. (Reply to this)

	tiasian 2004-02-02 12:39 am UTC (link)
	Icons. Bleh. That's all I have to say. :p (Reply to this)

	edithmatilda 2004-02-03 01:28 pm UTC (link)
	Right. Replying to ancient thread like a bastard. Could the reason for this repetition be the fact that they all only have three sad litle concepts between them? No matter how much frippery you put on an icon, it's not going to stop being banal. It's going to be banal in a slightly poncier way. Indeed something to strive for... (Reply to this)