Requirements for an IGN icon
- 80 x 80 pixel size
- Must be on a transparent background (.gif).
For all of you with graphics editing
programs, the board background color is B1B3BC, if you want to make a nice anti-aliased edge. - Must be less than 5k
- Try to avoid icons that are perfect squares
or cut off some of the image.
We want the icons on the IGN boards to look nice, and we try to avoid boxy
looking icons or icons that look strange because the image is cut off at a weird point.
For example, if you cut the top of someone's head off, it looks silly. - Avoid "assy" looking icons. Like I
said above, we want the icons
to look good, so try to avoid overly jaggy edges, unreadable fonts, etc.
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Part 2: Canvas size
Part 3: Resizing and optimizing
Part 4: Removing unsharp glows and saving
How to fade icons with PSP8
Find and open an image in PSP 8
The pictures below are meant to be demonstrations.
You first need to set the background color to the icon background (B1B3BC)
Select the second/bottom rectangle (most likely on the right side of you PSP 8 program)
Removing the background of the icon
You will now have to remove the background that is surronding the image.
I usually select a small selection of the background with either the lasso or
magic vand tool, and then pressing delete. Do the following instruction
until the entire background is gone.
